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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Totski, who was living abroad at this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.
-- You begin by promising that there are to be no reproaches or in-sinuations or questions, and here you are beginning them at once.
-- Then he begged me to close the book, and sent me away, promising to put my name on the reward list.
-- Colia had made it up with the prince before his father's death, and it was he who urged him to make use of Keller and Burdovsky, promising to answer himself for the for-mer's behaviour.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe, therefore, that you have been promising her to give glory to Achilles, and to kill much people at the ships of the Achaeans.'
-- Thereon the elders of the Aetolians besought Melea-ger; they sent the chiefest of their priests, and begged him to come out and help them, promising him a great reward.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still I paced up and down, promising myself that every time should be the last, and breaking faith with myself on some new plea as often as I did so.
-- Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse's pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
-- Mr Slum then withdrew to alter the acrostic, after taking a most affectionate leave of his patroness, and promising to return, as soon as he possibly could, with a fair copy for the printer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Conseil and I were absorbed in the contemplation of our treasure, and I was promising myself to enrich the museum with it, when a stone unfortunately thrown by a native struck against, and broke, the precious object in Conseil's hand.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How griev-ous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indeco-rum of her own family!
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember her promising to give you some.
-- He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address!He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote, nor relieved her."
-- He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment. Whether he had asked her pardon for his intrusion on first coming into the room, he could not recollect; but determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say any thing, after taking a chair.
-- She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener's lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte, and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class--two generations removed from the emigrant.
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
-- Young Hurstwood, Jr., was in his twentieth year, and was already connected in a promising capacity with a large real estate firm.
-- she suddenly asked, bethinking herself of the manager, who, from her own observation, seemed to contain promising material.
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