magnificent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 宏伟的, 壮丽的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the win-dows, cried out, 'Oh!How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes!What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!'
-- 'Per-haps he will amuse my good Polly,' added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at a large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most comfortably in his ring, inside a magnificent brass-wired cage.
-- I would behold magnificent Switzerland; I would travel to Italy, and '60 Andersen's Fairy Tales It was a good thing that the power of the Galoshes worked as instantaneously as lightning in a powder-magazine would do, otherwise the poor man with his overstrained wishes would have travelled about the world too much for himself as well as for us.
-- This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
-- The swallows did not know anything about it; but the Stork looked musing, nodded his head, and said, 'Yes; I think I know; I met many ships as I was flying hither from Egypt; on the ships were magnificent masts, and I venture to assert that it was they that smelt so of fir.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a magnificent estate from a young lady who lives in Nice.
-- In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him.
-- Altogether Mihailov, with his reserved and disagreeable, as it were, hostile attitude, was quite disliked by them as they got to know him better; and they were glad when the sittings were over, and they were left with a magnificent portrait in their possession, and he gave up coming.
-- In Gvozdyov there's a grouse marsh on this side, and beyond Gvozdyov come some magnificent snipe marshes where there are grouse too.
-- Darya Alexandrovna was well aware that even porridge for the children's breakfast does not come of itself, and that therefore, where so complicated and magnificent a style of luxury was maintained, someone must give earnest attention to its organization.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A magnificent robbery, consul; fifty-five thousand pounds!We don't often have such windfalls.
-- It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments of a rajah, wearing, as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls, a robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this seedy gaiety entered a splendor, a tremendous black- bearded personage, magnificent of glacial shirt-bosom, vast of brow, wild-eyed with genius or with madness.
-- Fatty had the soul of a midwife; he sympathized with women in their gasping agony, sympathized honestly and almost tearfully, and he was magnificent at sitting still and drinking tea and waiting.
-- I pretended to be a Canadian and joined up with the medical corps and got mine within three weeks and got hoofed out, and that was the end of my magnificent career!Here's somebody arriving."
-- "My boy, we may have found the real thing--another salvarsan!We'll publish together!We'll have the whole world talking!Why, I lay awake last night thinking of our magnificent opportunity!In a few months we may be curing not only staph infections but typhoid, dysentery!Martin, as your colleague, I do not for a moment wish to detract from the great credit which is yours, but I must say that if you had been more closely allied with Me you would have extended your work to practical proofs and results long before this."
-- What a magnificent future!Think, Martin"--Major Holabird discarded his dignity, sat astride a chair--"think of all you have ahead!If this work really pans out, there's no limit to the honors that'll come to you, you lucky young dog!
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so, I could not please her; and then I lost my place too, and that through no fault of mine but through changes in the office; and then I did touch it!芒聙娄 It will be a year and a half ago soon since we found ourselves at last after many wanderings and numerous calamities in this magnificent capital, adorned with innumerable monuments.
-- She was a rather tall, slim and graceful woman, terribly emaci-ated, with magnificent dark brown hair and with a hectic flush in her cheeks.
-- 'No, mother, no, Dounia, you won't deceive me!and then they apologise for not asking my advice and for taking the decision without me!I dare say!They imagine it is arranged now and can't be broken off; but we will see whether it can or not!A magnificent excuse: 'Pyotr Petro-vitch is such a busy man that even his wedding has to be in post-haste, almost by express.'
-- When he was attending the university, he had hun-dreds of times generally on his way home stood still on this spot, gazed at this truly magnificent spectacle and al-most always marvelled at a vague and mysterious emotion it roused in him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Misty ideas of being ayoung man at my own disposal, of the importance attaching to ayoung man at his own disposal, of the wonderful things to be seenand done by that magnificent animal and the wonderful effects hecould not fail to make upon society, lured me away.
-- Emma, my love,' said Mr. Micawber, clearinghis throat in his magnificent way, 'my friend Mr. Thomas Traddlesis so obliging as to solicit, in my ear, that he should have theprivilege of ordering the ingredients necessary to the composition 742of a moderate portion of that Beverage which is peculiarlyassociated, in our minds, with the Roast Beef of Old England.
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