precious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 宝贵的, 珍贵的，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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We poor gentlemen, sir,' said the traveller, pulling his moustache dry with his hand, for he had dipped it in the wine and brandy; 'we poor gentlemen do not travel like princes, but the courtesies and graces of life are precious to us.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A greencov-ered book appeared, with the same picture inside, and a few words written by their mother, which made their one present very precious in their eyes.
-- cried Meg, waving the precious paper and then proceeding to read it with girlish delight.
-- At the Kings' she daily saw all she want-ed, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bou-quets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lav-ished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.
-- Beth blushed like a rose under the friendly look he wore, but she was not frightened now, and gave the hand a grate-ful squeeze because she had no words to thank him for the precious gift he had given her.
-- It was bitter cold in the morning, she dropped her precious turnover in the gutter, Aunt March had an attack of the fidgets, Meg was sensitive, Beth would look grieved and wistful when she got home, and Amy kept making remarks about people who were always talk-ing about being good and yet wouldn't even try when other people set them a virtuous example.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.
-- was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.
-- Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men in this whaling world?
-- Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.
-- Nor is this precious substance found unalloyed in any other part of the creature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes,' replied the voice, 'and precious down in the mouth he has been.
-- 'Fair, or not fair,' retorted Sikes, 'hand over, I tell you!Do you think Nancy and me has got nothing else to do with our precious time but to spend it in scouting arter, and kidnapping, every young boy as gets grabbed through you?
-- Oh, you precious flat!'
-- 'How precious dull you are, Tommy!'
-- So he had; and a good bit of money he had made by it, too; and nobody would never have found it out, if he hadn't been so precious anxious to keep up appearances!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What it was in the rock - wheth-er diamonds or any other precious stones, or gold which I rather supposed it to be - I knew not.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Marianne seemed hardly to hear her, and on Mrs. Jennings's entrance, escaped with the precious card.
-- It was a valued, a precious trust to me; and gladly would I have discharged it in the strictest sense, by watching over her education myself, had the nature of our situations allowed it; but I had no family, no home; and my little Eliza was therefore placed at school.
-- Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment to her valued friend; and to see Marianne settled at the mansion-house was equally the wish of Edward and Elinor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had had no word from any quarter, she had spent a dollar of her precious sum in procuring food and paying car fare.
-- He convinced himself that his home life was very precious to him, but allowed that he could occasionally stay away from dinner.
-- Thirteenth Street was a number of blocks off, but she went back, carrying the precious paper and regretting the waste of time.
-- Life had always seemed a precious thing, but now constant want and weakened vitality had made the charms of earth rather dull and inconspicuous.
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