satisfactory是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 令人满意的, 圆满的, 良好的, 符合要求的,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《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Many times since have I thought of this singular phenomenon without being able to find for it any satisfactory explanation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The gentleman with the gun-barrel, considering it, on inspection, in a satisfactory state, referred it to the other; receiving confirmation of his views, he fitted it into its place in the case before him, and took out the stock and polished that, softly whistling.
-- When you write to another Department about it, and then to this Department about it, and don't hear anything satisfactory about it, why then you had better keep on writing.'
-- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the fraudulent conduct of a false friend and the present high price of provisions, had reduced him to the verge of ruin, unless he could by a quarter before six that evening raise the sum of eight pounds.
-- With that he rubbed his hands as if the interview had been very satisfactory to him, panted away to the door, and urbanely nodded himself out again.
-- 'I do beg,' he repeated, 'that this may be attended to, and that you will seriously take pains and try to conduct yourself in a manner both becoming your position as ha Miss Amy Dorrit, and satisfactory to myself and Mrs General.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He did his best and did it manfully, but I don't think he found that a pair of rampant boys, a pipe, or even the divine Plato, were very satisfactory substitutes for wife and child at home.
-- His letters were such a comfort, for the home letters were very irregular and not half so satisfactory as his when they did come.
-- It was a sort of written duet, wherein each glorified the oth-er in loverlike fashion, very pleasant to read and satisfactory to think of, for no one had any objection to make.
-- Demi, like a true Yankee, was of an inquiring turn, want-ing to know everything, and often getting much disturbed because he could not get satisfactory answers to his perpet-ual 'What for?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I took it up, and held it close to the light, and felt it, and smelt it, and tried every way possible to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion concerning it.
-- In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- When Mr. Brownlow admitted that on no one point of inquiry could he yet return a satisfactory answer; and that he had postponed any investigation into Oliver's previous history until he thought the boy was strong enough to hear it; Mr. Grimwig chuckled maliciously.
-- The suspicious circumstances, however, resolving themselves, on investigation, into the one fact, that they had been discovered sleeping under a haystack; which, although a great crime, is only punishable by imprisonment, and is, in the merciful eye of the English law, and its comprehensive love of all the King's subjects, held to be no satisfactory proof, in the absence of all other evidence, that the sleeper, or sleepers, have committed burglary accompanied with violence, and have therefore rendered themselves liable to the punishment of death; Messrs. Blathers and Duff came back again, as wise as they went.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Chapter 3 ot all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of Nher five daughters, could ask on the subject, was suffi-cient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.
-- 'No,' replied Jane, 'I have not forgotten him; but I have nothing satisfactory to tell you.
-- Mr. Gardiner left Longbourn on Sunday; on Tuesday his wife received a letter from him; it told them that, on his arrival, he had immediately found out his brother, and per-suaded him to come to Gracechurch Street; that Mr. Bennet had been to Epsom and Clapham, before his arrival, but without gaining any satisfactory information; and that he was now determined to inquire at all the principal hotels in town, as Mr. Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings.
-- Elizabeth was at no loss to understand from whence this deference to her authority proceeded; but it was not in her power to give any information of so satisfactory a nature as the compliment deserved.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It blew very hard all night, and in the morning, when I looked out, behold, no more ship was to be seen!I was a little surprised, but recov-ered myself with the satisfactory reflection that I had lost no time, nor abated any diligence, to get everything out of her that could be useful to me; and that, indeed, there was little left in her that I was able to bring away, if I had had more time.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Margaret's sagacity was not always displayed in a way so satisfactory to her sister.
-- I have explained it to myself in the most satisfactory way; but you, Elinor, who love to doubt where you can it will not satisfy YOU, I know; but you shall not talk ME out of my trust in it.
-- You will tell me, I know, that this may or may NOT have happened; but I will listen to no cavil, unless you can point out any other method of understanding the affair as satisfactory at this.
-- But now I can carry her a most satisfactory account of both."
-- was safely delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it before.
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