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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His generous donations to local and county charities have been frequently chronicled in these columns.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- P 's son, born after his mother's marriage, found a true father in the generous man whose name he bore.
-- You'll find that all their raptures, all their generous transports are proprietary, all their woes and their tears, proprietary; all proprietary or seminarist!You are laughing again, and you, prince, are smiling too.
-- T 'Evgenie Pavlovitch,' he said, with strange excitement and seizing the latter's hand in his own, 'be assured that I esteem you as a generous and honourable man, in spite of everything.
-- 'And besides we have always been enemies, Bachmatoff; and as you are a generous sort of fellow, I thought you would not refuse my request because I was your enemy!'
-- At present his only failing is that he is crazy about that captain's widow, and he cannot go to her without money, and I mean to catch him at her house today for his own good; but supposing it was not only the widow, but that he had committed a real crime, or at least some very dishonourable action (of which he is, of course, incapable), I repeat that even in that case, if he were treated with what I may call generous tenderness, one could get at the whole truth, for he is very soft-hearted!
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:
-- Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youth-ful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.
-- Though his person was more than usually screened by a green and fringed hunting-shirt, like that of the white man, there was no concealment to his dark, glancing, fearless eye, alike terrible and calm; the bold outline of his high, haughty features, pure in their native red; or to the dignified elevation of his receding fore-head, together with all the finest proportions of a noble head, bared to the generous scalping tuft.
-- The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
-- 'Go to him, and say that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid,' returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout in her generous ardor; 'that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his assistance come too late, bear to him,' she continued, her voice gradually lowering, until it seemed nearly choked, 'the love, the blessings, the final prayers of his daughters, and bid him not mourn their early fate, but to look forward with humble confidence to the Christian's goal to meet his children.'
-- The scout delayed his departure to speak to the generous girl, whose breathing became lighter as she saw the success of her remonstrance.
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:
-- He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The reporter could not refrain from embracing the generous boy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Here's a moralist to talk of poisoned minds!Here's a generous spirit to scorn scraped-up shillings!'
-- Surrounded by unfeeling creditors, and mercenary attendants upon the sick, and meeting in the height of her anxiety and sorrow with little regard or sympathy even from the women about her, it is not surprising that the affectionate heart of the child should have been touched to the quick by one kind and generous spirit, however uncouth the temple in which it dwelt.
-- 'That would be an excellent plan,' said Brass, 'if anybody would be ' and here he looked very hard at Mr Swiveller 'would be kind, and friendly, and generous enough, to undertake it.
-- Whereas, the world would do well to reflect, that injustice is in itself, to every generous and properly constituted mind, an injury, of all others the most insufferable, the most torturing, and the most hard to bear; and that many clear consciences have gone to their account elsewhere, and many sound hearts have broken, because of this very reason; the knowledge of their own deserts only aggravating their sufferings, and rendering them the less endurable.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then the hostess called in Maslova and told her that the man was an author, very rich, and will be very generous if he takes a liking to her.
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