seriously是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 严肃地， 认真地，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To restrain him as much as might be, by her own man-ners, she was immediately preparing to speak with exquisite calmness and gravity of the weather and the night; but scarcely had she begun, scarcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than she found her subject cut up her hand seized her attention demanded, and Mr. Elton actually making violent love to her: availing himself of the precious opportunity, declaring sentiments which must be already well known, hoping fearing ador-158 Emmaing ready to die if she refused him; but flattering himself that his ardent attachment and unequalled love and unex-ampled passion could not fail of having some effect, and in short, very much resolved on being seriously accepted as soon as possible.
-- Am I to believe that you have never sought to recommend yourself particularly to Miss Smith? that you have never thought seriously of her?'
-- I think seriously of Miss Smith! Miss Smith is a very good sort of girl; and I should be happy to see her re-spectably settled.
-- How she could have been so deceived! He protested that he had never thought seriously of Harriet never!She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion.
-- Five couple are nothing, when one thinks seriously about it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was far from being seriously concerned about his nonconformity.
-- And even, Miss Everdene, if you seriously inclined towards him, you might have let him find it out in some way of true loving-kindness, and not by sending him a valentine's letter."
-- Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things.
-- said Bathsheba, slightly laughing, though somewhat seriously alarmed by this Amazonian picture of herself.
-- "True," she said, and though vexed at first she had too much sense to blame them long or seriously for a devotion to her that was as valuable as it was rare.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most small people who take themselves seriously are a little ridiculous; but the bantam cock is respected in thebarnyard, and so it was with Gerald.
-- But here she was, with a manat her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.
-- She had no memory for names, dates orplaces and frequently confused the actors in one Atlanta drama with the actors in another, which misled no one for noone was foolish enough to take seriously anything she said.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, sir," said Wemmick, smiling again, but seriously too, as he shook his head, "if you can suppose the little place besieged, it would hold out a devil of a time in point of provisions."
-- And now before I say anything more about my father, or my father's son, and repay confidence with confidence, I want to make myself seriously disagreeable to you for a moment,--positively repulsive."
-- If he should turn to, and beat her--""Surely," I interrupted, with a burning face and heart, "you do not seriously think that he is scoundrel enough for that, Mr.
-- At once I put bills up in the windows; for, I was in debt, and had scarcely any money, and began to be seriously alarmed by the state of my affairs.
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, 'he had been very seriously considering my whole sto-ry, as far as it related both to myself and my country; that he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance 329of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had bestowed; had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strength nor agility of a common Yahoo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet; had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defence, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather: lastly, that I could neither run with speed, nor climb trees like my brethren,' as he called them, 'the Yahoos in his country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby,' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began seriously to reflect.
-- But the cook began to take me seriously to task.
-- Why should not a man as seriously convinced as my uncle, succeed, with so excellent a guide as worthy Hans, and so devoted a nephew as myself?
-- I began for the first time to feel seriously uneasy.
-- I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.
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