lofty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 高耸的; 崇高的; 高傲的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This venerable edifice, so marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid the ruins made by the Reformation; and it was there, beneath its lofty arches, in the grand nave, in the presence of an immense crowd, and surrounded by tombs as thickly set as in a cemetery, that they all assembled to implore the blessing of Heaven on their expedition, and to put themselves under the protection of Providence.
-- "Oh, they are neither lofty nor interesting, my Lord, and, beside, they have been described already."
-- Soon they were treading the grassy slopes of the first ridges of the Sierra Tandil, and an hour afterward the village appeared in the depths of a narrow gorge, and above it towered the lofty battlements of Fort Independence.
-- Some hours later, the sharp, lofty crags of the group of islands stood out clearly on the horizon.
-- They were all soon assembled on the lofty crags, and from this elevation could command a view of the whole plain below.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room they were now sitting in was a large one, lofty but dark, well furnished, principally with writing-tables and desks covered with papers and books.
-- 'Ha, ha!Then you are afraid you WILL wave your arms about!I wouldn't mind betting that you'll talk about some lofty subject, something serious and learned.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quar-ter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships.
-- These were they that held Cytorus and the coun-try round Sesamus, with the cities by the river Parthenius, Cromna, Aegialus, and lofty Erithini.
-- These held Miletus and the wooded mountain of Phthires, with the water of the river Maeander and the lofty crests of Mt.
-- With this Iris went her way, fleet as the wind, from the heights of Ida to the lofty summits of Olympus.
-- Then fell Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes; he was son-in-law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia, who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and under-standing, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idome-neus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when Idome-neus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I suppose,' added the lofty young man, after a moment's pause, 'that visitor will understand me, when I say that's all I say.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They got on excellently, for Amy's chief care was soon set at rest by learning that the gentleman would leave first, and she was chatting away in a peculiarly lofty strain, when the old lady got out.
-- The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of them-selves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty mansion, and your question will be answered.
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a self-containing stronghold a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a perennial well of water within the walls.
-- And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With these words, the beadle strode, with a lofty and gloomy air, from the undertaker's premises.
-- Not that it was Mr. Giles's habit to admit to too great familiarity the humbler servants: towards whom it was rather his wont to deport himself with a lofty affability, which, while it gratified, could not fail to remind them of his superior position in society.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furni-ture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real el-egance, than the furniture of Rosings.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not imagine that there would be anything in such a lofty sphere for her.
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