desirable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 值得弄到手的, 吸引人的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good-humoured looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong res-olution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.
-- So powerful is use, and so desirable to be good use in the beginning.
-- He would not have stopped then, for anything less nec-essary than breath, it being a spectral sort of race that he ran, and one highly desirable to get to the end of.
-- It was not merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach, but it was of the highest importance that the time occupied in examining it and its passengers, should be reduced to the utmost; since their escape might depend on the saving of only a few seconds here and there.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted that Madeline was not only a rare and understanding spirit but also an extraordinarily desirable woman--fresh color, tender eyes, adorable slope from shoulder to side.
-- Was he going to fall in love with this desirable and quite useless young woman?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After which she gently chid her daughterAnnie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesseswere showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; andentertained us with some particulars concerning other deservingmembers of her family, whom it was desirable to set on theirdeserving legs.
-- My son's highspirit made it desirable that he should be placed with some manwho felt its superiority, and would be content to bow himselfbefore it; and we found such a man there.'
-- With this brief introduction, she produced from herpocket an advertisement, carefully cut out of a newspaper, settingforth that in Buckingham Street in the Adelphi there was to be let 330furnished, with a view of the river, a singularly desirable andcompact set of chambers, forming a genteel residence for a younggentleman, a member of one of the Inns of Court, or otherwise,with immediate possession.
-- I found that the street was not as desirable a one as I could havewished it to be, for the sake of Traddles.
-- 'I thought, at one time,' said Mr. Wickfield, 'that you wished tosend Maldon abroad to effect a desirable separation.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them sus-pected; and the quiet transition which Mr. Knightley soon afterwards made to 'What does Weston think of the weath-er; shall we have rain?'
-- I could never tell whether an attachment between you and Mr. Elton were most desirable 90 Emmaor most natural.
-- I have been but half a friend to her; and if she were not to feel this disap-pointment so very much, I am sure I have not an idea of any body else who would be at all desirable for her; William Coxe Oh!no, I could not endure William Coxe a pert young lawyer.'
-- She had reason to believe her nearly recovered from her cold, and it was desirable that she should have as much time as possible for getting the better of her other complaint be-fore the gentleman's return.
-- She wanted, rather, to be quiet, and out of temptation; but still, as it was desirable that she should appear, in general, like her usual self, she took care to express as much interest in the circumstance, and enter as warmly into Mr. and Mrs. Weston's disappointment, as might naturally belong to their friendship.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction every kind of evidence in the logician's list have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
-- In every point of view, ranging from politic to passionate, it was desirable that she, a lonely girl, should marry, and marry this earnest, well-to-do, and respected man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities thatwould make her truly desirable as a wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer some help towards that desirable end.
-- I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.
-- But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as she melted small and won-derful in his arms, she became infinitely desirable to him, all his blood-vessels seemed to scald with intense yet tender desire, for her, for her softness, for the penetrating beauty of her in his arms, passing into his blood.
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