fortunate是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 幸运的, 侥幸的,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
-- The Marquis d'Ajuda and the Rochefides agreed that this quarrel and reconciliation was a very fortunate thing; Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archan-gel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
-- When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and grati-tude assisted the development of filial love.
-- My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler 40 Frankensteinhas not seized.
-- 'My dear Frankenstein,' exclaimed he, 'how glad I am to see you!How fortunate that you should be here at the very mo-ment of my alighting!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter XLIt was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so far as I could) the safety of my dreaded visitor; for, this thought pressing on me when I awoke, held other thoughts in a confused concourse at a distance.
-- There being to my knowledge a respectable lodging-house in Essex Street, the back of which looked into the Temple, and was almost within hail of my windows, I first of all repaired to that house, and was so fortunate as to secure the second floor for my uncle, Mr. Provis.
-- It is not a fortunate discovery, and is not likely ever to enrich me in reputation, station, fortune, anything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If you should happen to have looked in to-night, for the purpose of telling him that you were going to do her any little service,' said Mr. Childers, stroking his face again, and repeating his look, 'it would be very fortunate and well-timed; very fortunate and well-timed.'
-- Bounderby, I esteem it a most fortunate accident that I find you alone here.
-- With all possible respect both for Mr. Gradgrind and for Mr. Bounderby, I think I perceive that he has not been fortunate in his training.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It is quite possible that we may be more fortunate in the western tunnel."
-- "Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring," replied my uncle dogmatically, "science has fallen into many errors--errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth."
-- "I have every reason to think so," said the Professor in a smiling tone, "and I beg to tell you that it is the most fortunate thing that could happen to us."
-- The most fortunate thing!Had my uncle really and truly gone mad?
-- We are about to be expelled, thrown up, vomited, spit out of the interior of the earth, in common with huge blocks of granite, with showers of cinders and scoriae, in a wild whirlwind of flame, and you say--the most fortunate thing which could happen to us."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was so beautiful, so amiable, so apt to receive any true impression given to her gentle nature and her innocent heart, and make the man who should be so happy as to communicate it, the most fortunate and enviable of all men, that he was very glad indeed he had come to that conclusion.
-- This great and fortunate man had provided that extensive bosom which required so much room to be unfeeling enough in, with a nest of crimson and gold some fifteen years before.
-- Then Gowan asserting his rights as a disappointed man who had his grudge against the family, and who, perhaps, had allowed his mother to have them there, as much in the hope it might give them some annoyance as with any other benevolent object, aired his pencil and his poverty ostentatiously before them, and told them he hoped in time to settle a crust of bread and cheese on his wife, and that he begged such of them as (more fortunate than himself) came in for any good thing, and could buy a picture, to please to remember the poor painter.
-- To think of the brightest and most fortunate accidents of life.
-- On account of Mr Gowan's painting Papa's picture (which I am not quite convinced I should have known from the likeness if I had not seen him doing it), I have had more opportunities of being with her since then than I might have had without this fortunate chance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- CHAPTER NINE'I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now,' said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.
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