happiness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 幸福， 幸运； 快乐，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, how I loved her!What happiness (I thought) if wewere married, and were going away anywhere to live among thetrees and in the fields, never growing older, never growing wiser,children ever, rambling hand in hand through sunshine andamong flowery meadows, laying down our heads on moss at night,in a sweet sleep of purity and peace, and buried by the birds whenwe were dead!Some such picture, with no real world in it, brightwith the light of our innocence, and vague as the stars afar off, wasin my mind all the way.
-- For thisreason, though Mr. Chillip often asked me to go and see him (hewas a widower, having, some years before that, lost a little smalllight-haired wife, whom I can just remember connecting in myown thoughts with a pale tortoise-shell cat), it was but seldom thatI enjoyed the happiness of passing an afternoon in his closet of asurgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell ofthe whole pharmacopoeia coming up my nose, or poundingsomething in a mortar under his mild directions.
-- 'Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'farewell!Every happiness andprosperity!If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuademyself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, Ishould feel that I had not occupied another man's place inexistence altogether in vain.
-- 'How fortunate we are,too,' I returned, 'to have arrived to witness their happiness in thatintended marriage!I never saw people so happy.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The event had every promise of happiness for her friend.
-- He had made his fortune, bought his house, and obtained his wife; and was beginning a new period of ex-istence, with every probability of greater happiness than in any yet passed through.
-- The happiness of Miss Smith was quite equal to her intentions.
-- Mr. Elton looked all happiness at this proposition; and nothing could exceed his alertness and attention in con-ducting them into his house and endeavouring to make every thing appear to advantage.
-- It was no longer in Emma's power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No I beg you!Don't be happier if happiness only comes from my agreeing.
-- But heartless circumstance could not leave entire Gabriel's happiness of this morning.
-- Without any shamming, come!Don't deny me the happiness of wearing it for my sake?
-- A short time ago I had the happiness to lead to the altar this lady, your mistress, and not until now have we been able to give any public flourish to the event in Weatherbury.
-- If you, sir, know that, and I can yet give you happiness by a mere promise to marry at the end of six years, if my husband should not come back, it is a great honour to me.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.
-- "Oh!well, yes, their father, the father, a father," replied the Vicomtesse, "a kind father who gave them each five or six hundred thousand francs, it is said, to secure their happiness by marrying them well; while he only kept eight or ten thousand livres a year for himself, thinking that his daughters would always be his daughters, thinking that in them he would live his life twice over again, that in their houses he should find two homes, where he would be loved and looked up to, and made much of.
-- The dread of losing her happiness filled those days with a fever of joy unknown before, but the end was only so much the nearer.
-- Yet this after-glow of happiness lasted long enough for the Vicomtesse to be of service to her young cousin.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
-- I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympa-thy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
-- I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
-- It was thus that I was to be taught to associate evil with their prosecution, happiness with their disregard.
-- 'My children,' she said, 'my firmest 39hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heads bowed in thecircle of yellow light as Ellen thanked God for the health and happiness of her home, her family and her negroes.
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