generous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 慷慨的; 丰盛的; 厚的, 宽宏大量的; 大量的, 丰富的，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In effect, we presently heard him utteringsuppressed groans of the most dismal nature, as this magpieproceeding racked him in every joint; but while Peggotty's eyeswere full of compassion for him, she said his generous impulsewould do him good, and it was better not to check it.
-- So it was, though in asoftened degree, when I went to my neat room at night; and,turning over the leaves of the crocodile book (which was alwaysthere, upon a little table), remembered with a grateful heart howblest I was in having such a friend as Steerforth, such a friend asPeggotty, and such a substitute for what I had lost as my excellentand generous aunt.
-- Youare a generous boy- I suppose I must say, young man, now- and Iam proud of you, my dear.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship she had always wished and promoted the match; but it was a black morning's work for her.
-- 'Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public!A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid!the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
-- said she. 'To chuse to remain here month after month, under privations of every sort!And now to chuse the mortification of Mrs. Elton's no-tice and the penury of her conversation, rather than return to the superior companions who have always loved her with such real, generous affection.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cynical inference was irresistible by Gabriel Oak as he regarded the scene, generous though he fain would have been.
-- But there is such a thing as being too generous in expressing a judgment impulsively, and Oak added with a more appreciative sense of all the circumstances "Well, I am not quite certain it was no harm."
-- The maltster, being now pacified, was even generous enough to voluntarily disparage in a slight degree the virtue of having lived a great many years, by mentioning that the cup they were drinking out of was three years older than he.
-- Bathsheba blushed slightly at the sense of being generous in public, and Henery Fray, who had drawn up towards her chair, lifted his eyebrows and fingers to express amazement on a small scale.
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How kind and generous you are!every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing.'
-- A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous 94 Frankensteininterference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.
-- The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostu-late with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
-- ''Excellent man!I thank you and accept your generous offer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They topped the rise and the white house reared its perfect symmetry before her, tall of columns, wide ofverandas, flat of roof, beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous andgracious to all.
-- Because of these qualities that came sincerely and spontaneously from a generous heart, everyone flocked abouther, for who can resist the charm of one who discovers in others admirable qualities undreamed of even by himself?
-- Melanie was always generous with the letters, reading parts of them aloud to Aunt Pitty and Scarlett.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
-- There, I found a virtuous boatswain in His Majesty's service,--a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places, and not quite so loose in others,--who knocked all the little men's hats over their eyes, though he was very generous and brave, and who wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That if his majesty, in consid-eration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived, that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors.
-- He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a- laughing, although at the same time she was heart-ily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.
-- I took leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favour, and made me a generous present at my departure.
-- The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board.
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