thorough是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 彻底的, 详尽的，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：
-- His father, a minister of St. Katrine's Church, had given him a thorough education, as he believed that could never hurt anybody.
-- Glenarvan, however, would not allow himself to be disheartened; he went back to Talcahuano, and spared neither pains nor expense to make a thorough investigation of the whole seaboard.
-- The Major, who was a thorough judge of all the good points of a horse, was loud in admiration of this sample of the Pampas breed, and considered that, in many respects, he greatly resembled an English hunter.
-- It would not do to leave without thorough investigation, a locality which they were never to revisit.
-- First of all he made a thorough survey of Maunganamu, their present fortress; not for the purpose of defence, but of escape.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And right glad I am that she'll make a thorough good fool of you.
-- It was evident that their younger sister was a thorough puzzle to them both.
-- 'As for me, I promised myself, on the first day of my arrival in this house, that I would have the satisfaction of settling accounts with you in a very thorough manner before I said good-bye to you.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were seriously investigating the strange occurrences of the morning, and were, with Mr. Hall's permission, making a thorough examination of the Invisible Man's belongings.
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：
-- The varlets know the better pieces of the deer; and one would think they might carve and roast a saddle, equal to the best cook in the land!But everything is raw, for the Iro-quois are thorough savages.
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：
-- They moved quickly, following my smallest gesture, and they gave him the look of a very thorough rogue.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are really very thorough rejecters of the world perhaps they live only in the gesture of rejection and negation but negatively something, at any rate."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expres-sions, or the word will be but half-deserved.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now the month of December, as I said above, in my twenty- third year; and this, being the southern solstice (for winter I cannot call it), was the particular time of my harvest, and required me to be pretty much abroad in the fields, when, going out early in the morning, even before it was thorough daylight, I was surprised with seeing a light of some fire upon the shore, at a distance from me of about two miles, toward that part of the island where I had ob-served some savages had been, as before, and not on the other side; but, to my great affliction, it was on my side of the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the Park betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance; whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct toward others made every shew of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless.
-- Whatever the truth of it might be, and far as Elinor was from feeling thorough contentment about it, yet while she saw Marianne in spirits, she could not be very uncomfortable herself.
-- Nothing but a thorough change of sentiment could account for it.
-- Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once?
-- My affection for Marianne, my thorough conviction of her attachment to me it was all insufficient to outweigh that dread of poverty, or get the better of those false ideas of the necessity of riches, which I was naturally inclined to feel, and expensive society had increased.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The deep-feeling manager was himself a little strained in the nerves by the thorough consciousness of his mission.
-- She seemed a thorough master of her mood-- thoroughly confident and determined to wrest all control from him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pinocchio became very thoughtful and, forgetting his good manners altogether, he pulled a hand out of his pocket and gave his head a thorough scratching.
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