sorrowful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 使人伤心的； 悲伤的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusato-ry.
-- 'It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,' was the Spirit's sorrowful reply.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So!But on other moonlight nights, when the sadness and the silence have touched me in a different way have af-fected me with something as like a sorrowful sense of peace, as any emotion that had pain for its foundations could I have imagined her as coming to me in my cell, and leading me out into the freedom beyond the fortress.
-- With a solemn interest in the lighted windows where the people were going to rest, forgetful through a few calm hours of the horrors surrounding them; in the towers of the churches, where no prayers were said, for the popular revul-sion had even travelled that length of self-destruction from years of priestly impostors, plunderers, and profligates; in the distant burial-places, reserved, as they wrote upon the gates, for Eternal Sleep; in the abounding gaols; and in the streets along which the sixties rolled to a death which had become so common and material, that no sorrowful story of a haunting Spirit ever arose among the people out of all the working of the Guillotine; with a solemn interest in the whole life and death of the city settling down to its short nightly pause in fury; Sydney Carton crossed the Seine again for the lighter streets.
-- 'I have no hope,' said Mr. Lorry, in a low and sorrowful whisper.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The axe struck deep intothe very pith; the Tree fell to the earth with a sigh; he felt a pang it was like a swoon; he could not think of happi-ness, for he was sorrowful at being separated from his home, from the place where he had sprung up.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stern and already rigid profile of her face looked as though chiselled of marble too, and the smile on her pale lips was full of an immense unchildish misery and sorrowful appeal.
-- It was a quiet and sorrowful wedding; Porfiry Petrovitch and Zossimov were invited however.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was too sorrowful to discussthe question, which would possibly have been beyond me underany circumstances; and Mr. Omer took me back into the parlour,breathing with some difficulty on the way.
-- 'No,' said the Doctor, in a sorrowful tone.
-- It was deepened, ifit were changed at all; but it was as undefined as ever, andaddressed me like a strain of sorrowful music faintly heard in thenight.
-- As I had a sorrowful wishto see the old place once more, before it was locked up, I engagedto meet them there in the evening.
-- But if you, being so full oflearning, Mas'r Davy, could think of anything to say as mightbring her to believe I wasn't greatly hurt: still loving of her, andmourning for her: anything as might bring her to believe as I wasnot tired of my life, and yet was hoping fur to see her withoutblame, wheer the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at 680rest- anything as would ease her sorrowful mind, and yet not makeher think as I could ever marry, or as 'twas possible that any onecould ever be to me what she was- I should ask of you to say that-with my prayers for her- that was so dear.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The compliments of his neighbours were over; he was no longer teased by being wished joy of so sorrowful an event; and the wedding-cake, which had been a great distress to him, was all eat up.
-- 'I shall never be invited to Abbey-Mill again,' was said in rather a sorrowful tone.
-- Emma was ready for her visitor some time before he ap-peared; but if this reflected at all upon his impatience, his sorrowful look and total want of spirits when he did come might redeem him.
-- While he lived, it must be only an engagement; but she flattered herself, that if divested of the danger of drawing her away, it might be-come an increase of comfort to him. How to do her best by Harriet, was of more difficult decision; how to spare her from any unnecessary pain; how to make her any pos-sible atonement; how to appear least her enemy? On these subjects, her perplexity and distress were very great and her mind had to pass again and again through every bitter reproach and sorrowful regret that had ever surround-ed it. She could only resolve at last, that she would still avoid a meeting with her, and communicate all that need be told by letter; that it would be inexpressibly desirable to have her removed just now for a time from Highbury, and indulging in one scheme more nearly resolve, that 532 Emmait might be practicable to get an invitation for her to Bruns-wick Square. Isabella had been pleased with Harriet; and a few weeks spent in London must give her some amuse-ment. She did not think it in Harriet's nature to escape being benefited by novelty and variety, by the streets, the shops, and the children. At any rate, it would be a proof of attention and kindness in herself, from whom every thing was due; a separation for the present; an averting of the evil day, when they must all be together again.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us, but she quickly recovered herself, and a look of sorrowful affection seemed to attest her utter guiltlessness.
-- Agatha, the 137ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely strang-er, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.
-- He was forever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and de-jected mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Biddy, shaking her head with a sorrowful air.
-- I would not have listened for more, if I could have heard more; so I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the bedside, feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known.
-- I again warmly repeated that it was a bad side of human nature (in which sentiment, waiving its application, I have since seen reason to think I was right), and I walked down the little path away from Biddy, and Biddy went into the house, and I went out at the garden gate and took a dejected stroll until supper-time; again feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this, the second night of my bright fortunes, should be as lonely and unsatisfactory as the first.
-- Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it first began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at a sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.
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