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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suddenly, a grand, generous purpose fired her soul, and she called out: "Mary Grant!wait, my child, and listen to what I'm going to say."
-- CHAPTER V THE DEPARTURE OF THE "DUNCAN"WE have said already that Lady Helena was a brave, generous woman, and what she had just done proved it in-disputably.
-- He was no unmoved auditor, and when he heard of Lady Helena's generous proposition, he could not help saying,"Madame, permit me to express my admiration of your conduct throughout—my unreserved admiration.
-- His generous enthusiasm so touched his auditors that, involuntarily, they rose to their feet and grasped his hands, while Robert exclaimed as he devoured the map with his eyes:"Yes, my father is there!"
-- Neither mountains nor rivers had made the travelers change their course; and though they had not had to encounter any ill-will from men, their generous intrepidity had been often enough roughly put to the proof by the fury of the unchained elements.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she cried; 'I, who have prided myself on my discernment!I, who have valued my-self on my abilities!who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust!How humiliating is this discovery!Yet, how just a humiliation!Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind!But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
-- What a triumph for him, as she often thought, could he know that the proposals which she had proudly spurned only four months ago, would now have been most gladly and gratefully received!He was as generous, she doubted not, as the most generous of his sex; but while he was mor-tal, there must be a triumph.
-- Elizabeth was pleased to find that he had not betrayed the interference of his friend; for, though Jane had the most generous and forgiving heart in the world, she knew it was a circumstance which must prejudice her against him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him he had been so generous to me in everything that I could not offer to make any price of the boat, but left it entirely to him: upon which he told me he would give me a note of hand to pay me eighty pieces of eight for it at Brazil; and when it came there, if any one offered to give more, he would make it up.
-- The generous treatment the captain gave me I can nev-er enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard's skin, and forty for the lion's skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax - for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Bra-zils.
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh!beyond anything great!What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if REALLY his sisters!And as it is only half blood! But you have such a generous spirit!"
-- Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.
-- She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more; not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward's generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.
-- I can safely say I owe you no ill-will, and am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You must be more generous than that," he said, in such a simple way that she was touched.
-- She gave him credit for his good looks, his generous feelings, and even, in fact, failed to recollect his egotism when he was absent; but she could not feel any binding influence keeping her for him as against all others.
-- She only took his affection to be a fine thing, and appended better, more generous results accordingly.
-- The next day he resorted to the same effort, experiencing a variety of rebuffs and one or two generous receptions.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says: 'Friends all, my poor brother that lays yonder has done generous by them that's left behind in the vale of sorrers.
-- He has done generous by these yer poor little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that's left fatherless and motherless.
-- Yes, and we that knowed him knows that he would a done MORE generous by 'em if he hadn't ben afeard o' woundin' his dear William and me.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is really too great an honor for you, one you do not deserve; but, as you see, I am really a very kind and generous man and I am going to do this for you!"
-- But I am of a generous nature, and I gladly forgive him."
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