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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After labouring for two or three years in their precious scheme, to find that they've got a beggar at last, and one of them tied for life.
-- Yet, in the most of all these distractions, the one eye was upon the old lady always, and if she so much as stealthily advanced a tea-spoon towards a neighbouring glass (which she often did), for the purpose of abstracting but one sup of its sweet contents, Quilp's hand would overset it in the very moment of her triumph, and Quilp's mocking voice implore her to regard her precious health.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They say life is a dream, a precious poor dream at times but I can't stand another that won't fit.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My precious Lily!My imperial kitten!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
-- "Why, what a precious old sea-calf I am!"
-- "Then," he continued, "then you'll up, and you'll say this: Gunn is a good man (you'll say), and he puts a precious sight more confidence a precious sight, mind that in a gen'leman born than in these gen'leman of fortune, having been one hisself."
-- And you won't forget my words; 'A precious sight (that's what you'll say), a precious sight more confidence' and then nips him."
-- "Right you were, sir," replied Silver; "and precious little odds which, to you and me."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection.
-- I aspired to nothing more than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections but nothing could keep me back!I forgot all fatigue, friends and collections and accepted without hesitation the offer of the American Government.
-- This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
-- Under elegant glass cases, fixed by copper rivets, were classed and labelled the most precious productions of the sea which had ever been presented to the eye of a naturalist.
-- This precious animal, hunted and tracked by fishermen, has now become very rare, and taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon become extinct.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed a magic circle drawn about the place, shutting out the present, enclosing the delightful, precious past, trees and deer and silence, like a dream.
-- With her, he could get by stimulation those precious half-hours of strength and exaltation and pure freedom, when he seemed to live more than he had ever lived.
-- So she relaxed, and seemed to melt, to flow into him, as if she were some infinitely warm and precious suffusion filling into his veins, like an intoxicant.
-- Ah, if she could have the precious knowledge of him, she would be filled, and nothing could deprive her of this.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took to Heathcliff strangely, believing all he said (for that matter, he said precious little, and generally the truth), and petting him up far above Cathy, who was too mischievous and wayward for a favourite.
-- Had it been dark, I daresay he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but, we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart.
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