cordial是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 热诚的, 衷心的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I am rather bothered at having disturbed you; that's all I care about. ' 'Look here, prince,' said the general, with a cordial smile, 'if you really are the sort of man you appear to be, it may be a source of great pleasure to us to make your better ac-quaintance; but, you see, I am a very busy man, and have to be perpetually sitting here and signing papers, or off to see his excellency, or to my department, or somewhere; so that though I should be glad to see more of people, nice peo-ple you see, I however, I am sure you are so well brought up that you will see at once, and but how old are you, prince?'
-- But her astonishment once over, Nasta-sia showed such satisfaction that all prepared to greet the prince with cordial smiles of welcome.
-- They had parted upon terms of cordial friendship.
-- 'I have seen men of graceful simplicity of intellect; I have seen an old man who is not above speaking kindly and even LISTENING to a boy like myself; I see before me persons who can under-stand, who can forgive kind, good Russian hearts hearts almost as kind and cordial as I met abroad.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I daresay you are,' said Montgomery, in anything but a cordial tone.
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：
-- The Delawares lost their gravity in a much more cordial expression; and the host, in particular, after contemplating his own liberal share of the spoil for some moments with peculiar gratifica-tion, repeated with strong emphasis, the words: 'My brother is a wise chief.
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：
-- His cordial agreement with all I said cut the ground from under my feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes being in the neighbourhood, he had leisure to call upon her, and then great was the joy and pride of Kit's mother, and extremely noisy the satisfaction of little Jacob and the baby, and cordial the congratulations of the whole court, who listened with admiring ears to the accounts of Abel Cottage, and could never be told too much of its wonders and magnificence.
-- So, parting with them on most friendly terms (not the less cordial perhaps for this last direction), the schoolmaster went to his bed, and the host and hostess to theirs.
-- Talk of the cordial that sparkled for Helen!Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality (Barclay and Co.'s). If they ever send it in a flat state, complain to the Governor.
-- So, after telling Mr Swiveller how they had not lost sight of Kit's mother and the children; how they had never once even lost sight of Kit himself, but had been unremitting in their endeavours to procure a mitigation of his sentence; how they had been perfectly distracted between the strong proofs of his guilt, and their own fading hopes of his innocence; and how he, Richard Swiveller, might keep his mind at rest, for everything should be happily adjusted between that time and night; after telling him all this, and adding a great many kind and cordial expressions, personal to himself, which it is unnecessary to recite, Mr Garland, the notary, and the single gentleman, took their leaves at a very critical time, or Richard Swiveller must assuredly have been driven into another fever, whereof the results might have been fatal.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To me he was cordial and kind, saying nothing of my escapade either in the way of blame or praise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was cordial with everybody, he was at once a host, with an easy, offhand hospitality that he had learned for Hermione's friends.
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