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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we were going through some of the magnificent passages, Iinquired of Mr. Creakle and his friends what were supposed to bethe main advantages of this all-governing and universallyoverriding system?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot imagine that she will not be con-tinually insulting her visitor with praise, encouragement, and offers of service; that she will not be continually de-tailing her magnificent intentions, from the procuring her a permanent situation to the including her in those delightful exploring parties which are to take place in the barouche-landau.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Masses of ivy grew up, completely covering the walls, till the place looked like an abbey; and it was discovered that the view from the front, over the Casterbridge chimneys, was one of the most magnificent in the county.
-- A morning mist hung over it now a fulsome yet magnificent silvery veil, full of light from the sun, yet semi-opaque the hedge behind it being in some measure hidden by its hazy luminousness.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
-- She has a magnificent house; the rooms are hung with silk--in short, it was a splendid affair, and I was as happy as a king---" "Fisher," put in Vautrin, interrupting.
-- "Aha!here is a magnificent _soupe-au-rama_," cried Poiret as Christophe came in bearing the soup with cautious heed.
-- A fine horse, in magnificent harness, was pawing the ground, and all at once the law student felt out of humor with himself.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, as I ascended higher, the val-ley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character.
-- Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremen-107dous dome overlooked the valley.
-- These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 89 Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she un-fastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case seemed wholly desperate and deplorable; and this magnificent palace would have infal-libly been burnt down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind unusual to me, I had not suddenly thought of an ex-pedient.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (He did not go so far as to say, for her pleasure, that there was a sort of Divine Right there; but, I have heard claims almost as magnificent of late years.)
-- From this dismal spot they were rescued by a savage old postilion, who happened to be up early, kicking a horse in a fly: and so were smuggled into the town by all the back lanes where the pigs lived: which, although not a magnificent or even savoury approach, was, as is usual in such cases, the legitimate highway.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- "What a magnificent journey.
-- Our meal concluded, we went to the Kongens-Nye-Torw; to the king's magnificent palace; to the beautiful bridge over the canal near the Museum; to the immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen with its hideous naval groups; to the castle of Rosenberg; and to all the other lions of the place-none of which my uncle even saw, so absorbed was he in his anticipated triumphs.
-- "You said, sir--" "Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret--" "What secret?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incom-prehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.
-- He could already see the two magnificent beeches which stood in this big level lozenge in front of the house, detaching themselves darkly in the dark air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So it had come to pass successively, first, that several distinguished ladies had been frightfully shocked; then, that portfolios of his performances had been handed about o' nights, and declared with ecstasy to be perfect Claudes, perfect Cuyps, perfect phaenomena; then, that Lord Decimus had bought his picture, and had asked the President and Council to dinner at a blow, and had said, with his own magnificent gravity, 'Do you know, there appears to me to be really immense merit in that work?'
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