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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac turned abruptly and saw her standing before him, coquettishly dressed in a loose white cashmere gown with knots of rose-colored ribbon here and there; her hair was carelessly coiled about her head, as is the wont of Parisian women in the morning; there was a soft fragrance about her--doubtless she was fresh from a bath;--her graceful form seemed more flexible, her beauty more luxuriant.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was old, with 126 Frankensteinsilver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were moulded with the finest symmetry, yet his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also the entire civilization that was behind the building of it, andshe found herself in a world that was as strange and different as if she had crossed a continent.
-- The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sankdown, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gauntand yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers aspossible.
-- There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as shemarked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.
-- Long graceful ropes of ivy and grapevine and smilax were hung everywhere, in looping festoons onthe walls, draped above the windows, twined in scallops all over the brightly colored cheesecloth booths.
-- Again he had made a graceful remark, the kind of compliment any gentleman would pay under suchcircumstances, but he did not mean a word of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her graceful figure and her beautiful face expressed a self-possessed indifference to the wild heat of the other, that was almost cruel.
-- You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was told that a great court lady, who had several children, is married to the prime min-ister, the richest subject in the kingdom, a very graceful person, extremely fond of her, and lives in the finest pal-ace of the island, went down to Lagado on the pretence of health, there hid herself for several months, till the king sent a warrant to search for her; and she was found in an obscure eating-house all in rags, having pawned her clothes 207to maintain an old deformed footman, who beat her every day, and in whose company she was taken, much against her will.
-- In speaking, they pronounced through the nose and throat, and their language approaches nearest to the High-Dutch, or German, of any I know in Europe; but is much more graceful and significant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very long and very narrow strips of printed bill announced, was then inaugurating the entertainments with her graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act.
-- Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!
-- No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
-- Miss Josephine Sleary, in her celebrated graceful Equestrian Tyrolean Flower Act, was then announced by a new clown (who humorously said Cauliflower Act), and Mr. Sleary appeared, leading her in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.'
-- 'I found that the day when any such thing would have been graceful in me, or good in me, or hopeful or happy for me or any one in connection with me, was gone, and would never shine again.'
-- Mr Dorrit himself, at this trying time, preserved a serious but graceful dignity.
-- 'Look,' said he, in his former tone, 'at this gentleman our host, not yet in the prime of life, who in so graceful a way and with such courtly urbanity and modesty presides over us!Manners fit for a crown!Dine with the Lord Mayor of London (if you can get an invitation) and observe the contrast.
-- Apart from such a habit standing in the way of that graceful equanimity of surface which is so expressive of good breeding, it hardly seems compatible with refinement of mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with hon-eysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
-- I am glad of this, for though I should be very proud of a graceful statue made by her, I shall be infinitely prouder of a lovable daughter with a talent for making life beautiful to herself and others.'
-- Beth kept her face hidden on her mother's shoulder, but Amy stood like a graceful statue, with a most becoming ray of sunshine touching her white forehead and the flower in her hair.
-- For a long time there was a lull in the 'mud-pie' business, and she devoted herself to the finest pen-and-ink drawing, in which she showed such taste and skill that her graceful handiwork proved both pleasant and profitable.
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