agreeable是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 令人愉快的; 欣然同意的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- What I had meant was, that when I came into my property and was able to do something for Joe, it would have been much more agreeable if he had been better qualified for a rise in station.
-- He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast.
-- This strongly marked way of doing business made a strongly marked impression on me, and that not of an agreeable kind.
-- Chapter XXVBentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury, did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit.
-- Chapter XXVII"MY DEAR MR PIP:--"I write this by request of Mr. Gargery, for to let you know that he is going to London in company with Mr. Wopsle and would be glad if agreeable to be allowed to see you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'A stranger or so makes an agreeable change,' suggested Peggotty.
-- 'A very agreeable change, indeed,' returned my mother.
-- 'Oh, what an agreeable man he is!'
-- I soon found out that Mrs. Gummidge did not always make herselfso agreeable as she might have been expected to do, under thecircumstances of her residence with Mr. Peggotty.
-- 'What a troublesome world this is, when one hasthe most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not par-ticularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
-- I should be sur-prized if, after seeing them, you could be in company with Mr. Martin again without perceiving him to be a very infe-rior creature and rather wondering at yourself for having ever thought him at all agreeable before.
-- Chapter VIEmma could not feel a doubt of having given Harriet's fan-cy a proper direction and raised the gratitude of her young vanity to a very good purpose, for she found her decidedly more sensible than before of Mr. Elton's being a remarkably handsome man, with most agreeable manners; and as she had no hesitation in following up the assurance of his admi-ration by agreeable hints, she was soon pretty confident of creating as much liking on Harriet's side, as there could be any occasion for.
-- His per-ception of the striking improvement of Harriet's manner, since her introduction at Hartfield, was not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment.
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is al-leged, indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution; but, however this be, his majesty has determined to make use only of low heels in the adminis-tration of the government, and all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe; and particularly that his majesty's imperial heels are lower at least by a drurr than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch).
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
-- After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturae; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristo-tle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have 125invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.
-- At length one of them called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach.
-- This change was particularly agreeable to me.
-- No wood, however, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innumerable chinks, I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.
-- A woman was sleeping on some straw; she was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose por-trait I held, but of an agreeable aspect and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health.
-- But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
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