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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides other things the nets brought up, were several flabellariae and graceful polypi, that are peculiar to that part of the ocean.
-- On 15th of December, we left to the east the bewitching group of the Societies and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific.
-- Their undulating flight, graceful aerial curves, and the shading of their colours, attracted and charmed one's looks.
-- These graceful molluscs moved backwards by means of their locomotive tube, through which they propelled the water already drawn in.
-- In resting on the earth they take the most graceful attitudes.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might well skulk behind the settle, on beholding such a bright, graceful damsel enter the house, instead of a rough headed counterpart of himself, as he expected.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And let me linger in this place, for an instant, to remark that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor.
-- 'And now that the nag has got his wind again,' said Mr Chuckster rising in a graceful manner, 'I'm afraid I must cut my stick.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dark, smooth, resplendent head; the white dress with folds clinging to her graceful bust and undulating breast; those vermilion cheeks, those brilliant black eyes, and two main traits in all her being: the virgin purity of her love, not only for himself, but for everything and everybody--he knew it--not only the good and beautiful, but even that beggar whom she had kissed.
-- And, making a graceful bow, he rode off.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail.
-- Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease.
-- But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper World were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.
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