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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Living masses of the English, to the amount, in the whole, of near three thousand, were moving slowly across the plain, toward the common center, and gradually approached each other, as they converged to the point of their march, a vista cut through the lofty trees, where the road to the Hudson entered the forest.
-- The chief himself waved his hand for Duncan to proceed, saying aloud, in a firm voice, and with a lofty manner: 'Go; I am a man, and I will enter the rock and fight the wicked one.'
-- The maiden drew back in lofty womanly reserve, and her dark eye kindled, while the rich blood shot, like the passing brightness of the sun, into her very temples, at the indig- nity.
-- Cora, my child!if the prayers of a heart-bro-ken father could avail thee now, how blessed shouldst thou be!Come, gentlemen,' he added, looking about him with an air of lofty composure, though the anguish that quivered in his faded countenance was far too powerful to be concealed, 'our duty here is ended; let us depart.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a fine autumnal afternoon, Icha-bod, in pensive mood, sat enthroned on the lofty stool from whence he usually watched all the concerns of his little lit-erary realm.
-- It stands on a knoll, surrounded by locust, trees and lofty elms, from among which its decent, whitewashed walls shine modestly forth, like Christian purity beaming through the shades of retirement.
-- It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy hearted and crest-fallen, pursued his travels home-wards, along the sides of the lofty hills which rise above Tarry Town, and which he had traversed so cheerily in the afternoon.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At dawn, some of the lighter clouds had risen into the more lofty regions of the air.
-- It was that of a lofty mountain, capped with snow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In its disengaged times, the tobacconist had announced it in his window as 'apartments' for a single gentleman, and Mr Swiveller, following up the hint, never failed to speak of it as his rooms, his lodgings, or his chambers, conveying to his hearers a notion of indefinite space, and leaving their imaginations to wander through long suites of lofty halls, at pleasure.
-- The child was at first quite terrified by the sight of these gaunt giants for such they looked as they advanced with lofty strides beneath the shadow of the trees but Short, telling her there was nothing to fear, blew a blast upon the trumpet, which was answered by a cheerful shout.
-- To this remonstrance Mr Chuckster deigned no other answer, than addressing Kit with a lofty and distant air as 'young feller,' and requesting him to cut and come again with all speed.
-- In a large and lofty building, supported by pillars of iron, with great black apertures in the upper walls, open to the external air; echoing to the roof with the beating of hammers and roar of furnaces, mingled with the hissing of red-hot metal plunged in water, and a hundred strange unearthly noises never heard elsewhere; in this gloomy place, moving like demons among the flame and smoke, dimly and fitfully seen, flushed and tormented by the burning fires, and wielding great weapons, a faulty blow from any one of which must have crushed some workman's skull, a number of men laboured like giants.
-- When she awoke again, broad day was shining through the lofty openings in the walls, and, stealing in slanting rays but midway down, seemed to make the building darker than it had been at night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then for the first time understood all the injustice of private ownership of land, and being one of those to whom any sacrifice in the name of moral duty was a lofty spiritual enjoyment, he forthwith divided the land he had inherited from his father among the peasants.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The slopes of the knoll and all the inside of the stockade had been cleared of timber to build the house, and we could see by the stumps what a fine and lofty grove had been destroyed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assurance; calmness for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy evinced by the rapid contraction of his lofty brows; and courage because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs.
-- But there was no isolated bush, nor modest brushwood, at the bottom of lofty trees.
-- We occupied, in this place, the centre of a vast glade surrounded by the lofty foliage of the submarine forest.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald went through the push doors into the large, lofty room where the faces and heads of the drinkers showed dimly through the haze of smoke, reflected more dimly, and repeated ad infinitum in the great mirrors on the walls, so that one seemed to enter a vague, dim world of shadowy drinkers humming within an atmosphere of blue tobacco smoke.
-- How happy they were, how cosy and glamorous it was with them, in a world of lofty shadows!The outside world, in which he had been transacting funeral business all the day was completely wiped out.
-- She was looking rather lofty and superb, smiling slowly and graciously to the Germans.
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