promising是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有希望的， 有前途的，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't you go promising Mrs.Meade or Mrs.
-- There wereboys in the Home Guard, proud to be playing at war, promising themselves they would be in Virginia this time nextyear, if the war would just last that long; old men with white beards, wishing they were younger, proud to march inuniform in the reflected glory of sons at the front In the militia, there were many middle-aged men and some older menbut there was a fair sprinkling of men of military age who did not carry themselves quite so jauntily as their elders ortheir juniors.
-- In response to Ellen's letters, pleading with her to come home, she wrote minimizing the dangers of the siege,explaining Melanie's predicament and promising to come as soon as the baby was born.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she went on; "you have a promising career before you.
-- "Hah!He is a promising fellow--in his way--but he may not have it all his own way.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest prin-cess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of going without food and sleep was not a promising one, so I determined to do my best to solve the mystery.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chair gave a sort of scurry, reeled on a few more yards, and came to her end amid a particularly promising patch of bluebells.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It left Arthur in possession of private personal means not exceeding a few hundred pounds; but it opened to him an active and promising career.
-- And was it a hopeful or a promising thing anywhere?
-- 'There may be many less promising ways of arriving at an end than that, my dear.
-- But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings.
-- But, having crossed the bridge and gone some distance straight onward, she remembered that she must ask for a direction; and it was only then, when she stopped and turned to look about her for a promising place of inquiry, that she found herself surrounded by an eager glare of faces.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how can it, when it's so contradictory that I don't know whether I've written a promising book or broken all the ten com-mandments?'
-- So af-ter idling away an hour, they drove home again, and having paid his respects to Mrs. Carrol, Laurie left them, promising to return in the evening.
-- Let them hear how much you have improved,' said Laurie, with pardonable pride in his promising pupil.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
-- Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good 脗拢150 from the precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head, he says "Hands off!this fish, my masters, is a Fast-Fish.
-- the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents preceding it.
-- The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising intermediate means of overtaking the chase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; Brittles was a lad of all-work: who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
-- Finally, the officers, without troubling themselves very much about Oliver, left the Chertsey constable in the house, and took up their rest for that night in the town; promising to return the next morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, moreover, such a promising thing for her younger daugh-ters, as Jane's marrying so greatly must throw them in the way of other rich men; and lastly, it was so pleasant at her time of life to be able to consign her single daughters to the care of their sister, that she might not be obliged to go into company more than she liked.
-- 'I never saw a more promising inclination; he was grow-ing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her.
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