flourish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 繁荣; 挥舞; 茂盛，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous traveller upon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a melodramatic flourish Martin protested, "And I suppose I haven't a thing to say if they wreck the Department!"
-- White and black, Hindu and Chink and Caribbee, they crowded the wharf, shouting, waving scarfs, trying not to weep at the feeble piping of what was left of the Blackwater Gold Medal Band; and as the steamer, the St. Ia of the McGurk Line, was warped out, with her captain at the rail of the bridge, very straight, saluting them with a flourish but his eyes so wet that he could not see the harbor, they felt that they were no longer jailed lepers but a part of the free world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I think of them going up and down before those school-roomwindowsthe Doctor reading with his complacent smile, anoccasional flourish of the manuscript, or grave motion of his head;and Mr. Dick listening, enchained by interest, with his poor witscalmly wandering God knows where, upon the wings of hardwords- I think of it as one of the pleasantest things, in a quiet way,that I have ever seen.
-- 'When she comes to her mother's age,' said Mrs. Markleham, witha flourish of her fan, 'then it'll be another thing.
-- Mr. Micawber, with a randombut expressive flourish of his knife, signified that theseperformances might be expected to take place after he was nomore; then resumed his peeling with a desperate air.
-- The triumphant flourish with which Mr. Micawberdelivered himself of these words, had a powerful effect in alarmingthe mother; who cried out in much agitation'Ury, Ury!Be umble,and make terms, my dear!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now then again the next bar; I'll help ye to flourish up the shrill notes where yer wind is rather wheezy: Oh the wi芒聙虏-il-lo芒聙虏-ow tree芒聙虏 will芒聙虏 twist芒聙虏,And the wil芒聙虏-low芒聙虏 tre芒聙虏-ee wi芒聙虏-ill twine芒聙虏.
-- A short time ago I had the happiness to lead to the altar this lady, your mistress, and not until now have we been able to give any public flourish to the event in Weatherbury.
-- That entry and exit hereby was only at rare intervals became apparent on noting that tufts of grass were allowed to flourish undisturbed in the chinks of the sill.
-- The judge changed carriages whilst a flourish was blown by the big-cheeked trumpeters, and a procession being formed of the vehicles and javelin-men, they all proceeded towards the town, excepting the Weatherbury men, who as soon as they had seen the judge move off returned home again to their work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon which he put down his head, blew a cloud of smoke out of his nose, and vanished with a kick-up of his hind-legs and a flourish of his tail.
-- He looked rather sly when I mentioned Miss Skiffins, and stopped in the street to blow his nose, with a roll of the head, and a flourish not quite free from latent boastfulness.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathemat-ical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Bounderby had been a Conqueror, and Mrs. Sparsit a captive Princess whom he took about as a feature in his state-processions, he could not have made a greater flourish with her than he habitually did.
-- And as often (and it was very often) as an orator of this kind brought into his peroration,'Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made,' it was, for certain, more or less understood among the company that he had heard of Mrs. Sparsit.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, they're over there, my dear,' said the turnkey, with a vague flourish of his key.
-- Not of late years,' replied the Chief, with a flourish of his hand.
-- The insinuating traveller, acknowledging the flourish with an inclination of his head, passed from the Chief to the second young lady, who had not yet been referred to otherwise than as one of the ladies in whose behalf he felt so sensitive an interest.
-- 'I kiss the hands of Madame F.'When he had finished this epistle, Rigaud folded it and tossed it with a flourish at Clennam's feet.
-- 'Ah!But he'll flourish here, and everywhere,' said Rigaud, with an exulting look and snap of his fingers.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.
-- Quite absorbed in her work, Jo scribbled away till the last page was filled, when she signed her name with a flourish and threw down her pen, exclaiming... 'There, I've done my best!If this won't suit I shall have to wait till I can do better.'
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