vainly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 徒劳地，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：
-- When Lord Glenarvan offered him the command of the DUNCAN, he accepted it with right good will, for he loved the master of Malcolm Castle, like a brother, and had hitherto vainly sought some opportunity of showing his devotion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then!you shall burn for this!"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr. Fogg; as vainly did the detective endeavour to make the quarrel his.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- I never shall forget him peeping round the corner of the street inTottenham Court Road, while Peggotty was bargaining for theprecious articles; or his agitation when she came slowly towards usafter vainly offering a price, and was hailed by the relentingbroker, and went back again.
-- In another,the ground was cumbered with rusty iron monsters of steam-boilers, wheels, cranks, pipes, furnaces, paddles, anchors, diving-bells, windmill-sails, and I know not what strange objects, 628accumulated by some speculator, and grovelling in the dust,underneath which- having sunk into the soil of their own weight inwet weather- they had the appearance of vainly trying to hidethemselves.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba was full of a stimulating turbulence, beside which caution vainly prayed for a hearing.
-- We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.
-- "You can't come across," Bathsheba said in a whisper, which she vainly endeavoured to make loud enough to reach Liddy's ears.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently Ernest came, and enquired if we had seen his brother; he said, that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself, and that he vainly sought for him, and afterwards waited for a long time, but that he did not return.
-- I strug-gled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud.
-- But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now they were battles, battles desperately, vainly fought as Johnston fell back toward Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down to that moment, I had vainly supposed that my creditor had withdrawn, or suspended proceedings until I should be quite recovered.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- burst out poor Jo, trying vainly to smoth-er her emotion in the pillow.
-- Also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indig-nantly remarked, 'Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth ""Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say, what lay shall we give this young man?"
-- "All 'dention," said the old black, with both hands placed as desired, vainly wriggling his grizzled head, as if to get both ears in front at one and the same time.
-- So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.
-- So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.
-- As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cast about vainly for some possible place to apply, but found no door which she had the courage to enter.
-- he inquired, wishing vainly for a cheery reply.
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