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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of her sorrowful expression, she gave the idea of possessing con-siderable firmness and decision.
-- 'Old Bielokonski"listened to all the fevered and despair-ing lamentations of Lizabetha Prokofievna without the least emotion; the tears of this sorrowful mother did not evoke answering sighs in fact, she laughed at her.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now when Hector reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, the wives and daughters of the Trojans came running towards him to ask after their sons, brothers, kinsmen, and husbands: he told them to set about praying to the gods, and many were made sorrowful as they heard him.
-- Thus he spoke, and the sons of the Achaeans for a long while sat sorrowful there, but they all held their peace, till at last Diomed of the loud battle-cry made answer saying, 'Son of Atreus, I will chide your folly, as is my right in coun-cil.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This is a splendid hunting-ground,' he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush.
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：
-- After pausing a moment to gaze at his retiring form, the suc-cessful and yet sorrowful Heyward and Alice took their way together toward the distant village of the Delawares.
-- The scout was hard by, leaning in a pensive posture on his own fatal and avenging weapon; while Tamenund, supported by the elders of his nation, oc-cupied a high place at hand, whence he might look down on the mute and sorrowful assemblage of his people.
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 seemed to see his fellow-creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you are sorrowful, let me know why and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you.
-- What was there in the little bit of pleasure you took last night that made it necessary for you to be low-spirited and sorrowful tonight?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought:"M. Aronnax," he asked, "do you know the depth of the ocean?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.
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