graceful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 优美的， 文雅的， 大方的，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：
-- And now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master of the house, having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that such another creature, quite as graceful and as full of promise, might have called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.
-- Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shriv-elled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that; the uncle made a graceful gesture of protest, which was so clearly a slight form of good breeding that it was not reassuring.
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：
-- How well you can stretch your legs out!It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen.
-- One night the stranger awoke he slept with the doors of the balcony open the curtain before it was raised by the wind, and he thought that a strange lustre came from the opposite neighbor's house; all the flowers shone like flames, in the most beautiful colors, and in the midst of the flow-ers stood a slender, graceful maiden it was as if she also shone; the light really hurt his eyes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eyes followed her till her graceful figure was out of sight, and then the smile remained on his face.
-- But even as he was, he was charming, with his fair curls, his blue eyes, and his plump, graceful little legs in tightly pulled-up stockings.
-- Kitty made a low and graceful curtsey in the very simple, that is to say, very elegant frock that had been ordered her from Paris.
-- He looked more robust, had let his whiskers grow, but was still the same graceful creature, whose face and figure were even more striking from their softness and nobility than their beauty.
-- Every woman of full, graceful figure with dark hair was his mother.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He frequently offered him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room, which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows.
-- Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam.
-- Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire.
-- One, with a fan and some bits of paper, performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers; another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience; while a third juggled with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips, and relit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For he doubted all progress of the intellect and the emotions, and he doubted, most of all, the superiority of divine mankind to the cheerful dogs, the infallibly graceful cats, the unmoral and unagitated and irreligious horses, the superbly adventuring seagulls.
-- Everyone whom Martin met at the Holabirds' flat was a Somebody, though perhaps a minor Somebody: a goodish editor or a rising ethnologist; and all of them had Holabird's graceful casualness.
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：
-- She was a rather tall, slim and graceful woman, terribly emaci-ated, with magnificent dark brown hair and with a hectic flush in her cheeks.
-- 'That Amalia Ludwigovna, ah!Lida, Kolya, hands on your hips, make haste!Glissez, glissez!pas de basque!Tap with your heels, be a graceful child!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have given Miss Smith all that she required,' said he; 'you have made her graceful and easy.
-- She had not even a share in his opening compliments. Her name was not mentioned; and there was so striking a change in all this, and such an ill-judged solemnity of leave-taking in his graceful acknowledgments, as she thought, at first, could not escape her father's suspi-cion.
-- They were permitted to go alone; and with a cordial nod from one, and a graceful bow from the other, the two gen-tlemen took leave.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.
-- "I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
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