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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The isacus, a graceful sort of dove with gray feathers streaked with white, and the yellow cardinals, were flitting about in the trees like moving flowers; while overhead pigeons, sparrows, chingolos, bulgueros, and mongitas, were flying swiftly along, rending the air with their piercing cries.
-- For the first time, too, they saw here the "Lyre" bird, the tail of which resembles in form the graceful instrument of Orpheus.
-- The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of "phormium" and a grove of beautiful trees, the "kai-kateas" with persistent leaves and red berries; "dracaenas australis," the "ti-trees" of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and "huious," which are used to give a black dye to cloth.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I, like everyone else,' began the general, 'have committed certain not altogether graceful actions, so to speak, during the course of my life.
-- 'I have seen men of graceful simplicity of intellect; I have seen an old man who is not above speaking kindly and even LISTENING to a boy like myself; I see before me persons who can under-stand, who can forgive kind, good Russian hearts hearts almost as kind and cordial as I met abroad.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no play nor graceful movement of his sceptre; he kept it straight and stiff like a man unpractised in oratory one might have taken him for a mere churl or simpleton; but when he raised his voice, and the words came driving from his deep chest like winter snow before the wind, then there was none to touch him, and no man thought further of what he looked like.'
-- Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore Mercury, giver of all good went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant.
-- Charis, of graceful head-dress, wife to the far-famed lame god, came towards her as soon as she saw her, and took her hand in her own, saying, 'Why have you come to our house, Thetis, honoured and ever wel-come for you do not visit us often?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them.
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：
-- A gleam of exultation shot across the darkly-painted lineaments of the inhabitant of the forest, as he traced the route of his intended victims, who rode unconsciously onward, the light and graceful forms of the females waving among the trees, in the cur-vatures of their path, followed at each bend by the manly figure of Heyward, until, finally, the shapeless person of the singing master was concealed behind the numberless trunks of trees, that rose, in dark lines, in the intermedi-ate space.
-- The travelers anxiously regarded the upright, flexible figure of the young Mohican, graceful and unrestrained in the at-titudes and movements of nature.
-- Then came a representation of the light and graceful move-ments of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, when he had been thinking of all kinds of graceful and insinuating approaches, and meditating on the fearful retaliation which was slowly working against Sophy Wackles here were Nell, the old man, and all the money gone, melted away, decamped he knew not whither, as if with a fore-knowledge of the scheme and a resolution to defeat it in the very outset, before a step was taken.
-- There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food, and grunting their monotonous grumblings as they prowled about, or crossed each other in their quest; plump pigeons skimming round the roof or strutting on the eaves; and ducks and geese, far more graceful in their own conceit, waddling awkwardly about the edges of the pond or sailing glibly on its surface.
-- Feeling, no doubt, that simplicity and plainness are the soul of elegance, Miss Brass wore no collar or kerchief except upon her head, which was invariably ornamented with a brown gauze scarf, like the wing of the fabled vampire, and which, twisted into any form that happened to suggest itself, formed an easy and graceful head-dress.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she departed, Mr. Dashwood put up his feet, with the graceful remark, 'Poor and proud, as usual, but she'll do.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play this is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair.
-- Nor does this its amazing strength, at all tend to cripple the graceful flexion of its motions; where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power.
-- In an instant the yards swung round; and as the ship half-wheeled upon her heel, her three firm-seated graceful masts erectly poised upon her long, ribbed hull, seemed as the three Horatii pirouetting on one sufficient steed.
-- Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme!did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor and her mother rose up in amazement at their entrance, and while the eyes of both were fixed on him with an evident wonder and a secret admiration which equally sprung from his appearance, he apologized for his intrusion by relating its cause, in a manner so frank and so graceful that his person, which was uncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meagre four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand.
-- She used her feet less heavily, a thing that was brought about by her attempting to imitate the treasurer's daughter's graceful carriage.
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