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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, Tom, be careful how you take it out," said Lord Glenarvan, "for bottles found in the sea often contain precious documents."
-- Lord Glenarvan was very unwilling, but he found there was no alternative; the precious bottle must be broken.
-- This precious combustible was carried back to the CASUCHA and heaped up on the hearth.
-- Here is the document," replied Paganel, taking out the precious paper he had been studying so conscientiously for the last few days.
-- It was the most precious thing the geographer possessed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said I, 'has this precious relation of yours departed, or is he still lurking out yonder?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed the red-nosed passenger, with extreme satisfaction, 'and that he has precious little in the luggage van! though of course poverty is no crime we must remember that!'
-- At first I was only just not absolutely dull; then my health began to improve then every day became dear-er and more precious to me, and the longer I stayed, the dearer became the time to me; so much so that I could not help observing it; but why this was so, it would be difficult to say.'
-- 'Well, I was precious dull with her, especially as she was so childish that there was nothing to be got out of her.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly ex-pressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- To us you can be of no further service here, but your precious life may be saved for other and near-er friends.'
-- Unwilling to prolong a useless discussion, the young man affected to comply, by posting his back against the logs of the blockhouse, in a half recumbent posture, though reso-lutely determined, in his own mind, not to close an eye until he had delivered his precious charge into the arms of Mun-ro himself.
-- 'Of those children of the devil, who waste the precious moments in yonder idle antics.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the boy, and very cleverly, without breaking it, he managed to draw out the wretched yet precious little bit of wood which was of such great importance to these poor men.
-- Pencroft searched in vain for some of those precious palm-trees which am employed in so many ways in domestic life, and which have been found as far as the fortieth parallel in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the thirty-filth only in the Southern Hemisphere.
-- The shape of these objects was clumsy and defective, but after they had been baked in a high temperature, the kitchen of the Chimneys was provided with a number of utensils, as precious to the settlers as the most beautifully enameled china.
-- Perhaps in time the settlers could replace this want by some equivalent, it was possible that they might find the sago or the breadfruit tree among the forests of the south, but they had not as yet met with these precious trees.
-- The time was then propitious for sowing this single precious grain of corn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the precious scheme to make your fortune, was it; this was the secret certain source of wealth in which I was to have sunk my money (if I had been the fool you took me for); this was your inexhaustible mine of gold, your El Dorado, eh?'
-- 'After you first came to me to get your precious grandson packed off to sea?'
-- When this fit was over, Kit exhibited the bird to both children, as a great and precious rarity it was only a poor linnet and looking about the wall for an old nail, made a scaffolding of a chair and table and twisted it out with great exultation.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well.
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