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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old sage told him that happiness was a difficult thing to find in this world.
-- At last he began to despair of success, and began sorrowfully to retrace his steps back to his father's palace, when one day he heard an honest peasant singing so merrily as he drove the plow, that he thought, ‘Surely this man is happy, if there is such a thing as happiness on earth.'
-- Toward evening, after a long promenade, Glenarvan and his party bade adieu to the good old M. Viot, and returned to the yacht, wishing him all the happiness possible on his desert island, and receiving in return the old man's blessing on their expedition.
-- This was a perfect type of the Irish colonist—a man who, weary of the miseries of his country, had come, with his family, to seek fortune and happiness beyond the seas.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sokolo-vitch owes all the happiness he has had in the service and in his private life to me, and me alone, but ... here we are.'
-- Put in your hand!There's your whole happiness smouldering away, look!Quick!'
-- It must be about twelve o'clock, now; come home with me do, and we'll see the day in!We'll have some wine, and you shall wish me I don't know what but you, especially you, must wish me a good wish, and I shall wish you full happiness in return.
-- Universal peace, and the happiness of mankind as a whole, being the result!Is it really so that I may understand you, sir?'
-- Ask them, ask any one of them, or all of them, what they mean by happiness!Oh, you may be perfectly sure that if Columbus was happy, it was not after he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it!You may be quite sure that he reached the culminating point of his happiness three days before he saw the New World with his actual eves, when his mutinous sailors wanted to tack about, and return to Europe!What did the New World matter after all?
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：
-- See,' she continued, as if determined to shake off infirmity, in a sense of duty; 'look around you, Major Heyward, and tell me what a prospect is this for the daughter of a soldier whose greatest happiness is his honor and his military renown.'
-- At length, he paused directly in front of Heyward, and rivet-ing his eyes upon those of the other, he said, with a lip that quivered violently: 'Duncan Heyward, I have loved you for the sake of him whose blood is in your veins; I have loved you for your own good qualities; and I have loved you, because I thought you would contribute to the happiness of my child.
-- I had her but a single year, though; a short term of happiness for one who had seen her youth fade in hopeless pining.'
-- Several of the chiefs had proposed deep and treacherous schemes to surprise the Delawares and, by gaining posses-sion of their camp, to recover their prisoners by the same blow; for all agreed that their honor, their interests, and the peace and happiness of their dead countrymen, impe-riously required them speedily to immolate some victims to their revenge.
-- None but the most dis-tinguished among the youthful warriors even presumed so far as to perform the latter ceremony, the great mass of the multitude deeming it a sufficient happiness to look upon a form so deeply venerated, and so well beloved.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
-- He spoke to her of the happiness of their life.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their mutual happiness depended upon it.
-- This eastward flight from all things customary and attached seemed as if it might have happiness in store.
-- In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his happiness lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying: "Cri-cri-cri!"
-- Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free!Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
-- At this answer, Pinocchio's happiness was very great.
-- No one can find happiness without work.
-- At this sight, the poor Marionette was filled with such great and sudden happiness that he almost dropped in a faint.
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