melancholy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 忧郁, 悲哀; a. 忧郁的, 令人伤感的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual mel-ancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
-- He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE.
-- It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 454 A tale of two citiesX The Substance of the Shadow , Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of 'IBeauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year, 1767.
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：
-- 'What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay.'
-- And then he began chirping his peculiar melancholy song, from which we have taken this history; and which may, very pos-sibly, be all untrue, although it does stand here printed in black and white.
-- 'It is so lonely and melancholy here!But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!I cannot bear it any longer!The whole day is so long, and the evenings are still longer!Here it is not at all as it is over the way at your home, where your fa-ther and mother spoke so pleasantly, and where you and all your sweet children made such a delightful noise.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said in melancholy mockery at the hopelessness of her own position.
-- But on the other hand Varenka, alone in the world, without friends or relations, with a melancholy disappointment in the past, desiring nothing, regretting nothing, was just that perfection of which Kitty dared hardly dream.
-- Only it's melancholy, very melancholy here.
-- He looked with weary and melancholy eyes at the bride and bridegroom, sighed, and putting his right hand out from his vestment, blessed the bridegroom with it, and also with a shade of solicitous tenderness laid the crossed fingers on the bowed head of Kitty.
-- "Oh, I've got over that, Darya Dmitrievna," he answered, and a melancholy and serious expression suddenly came over his face.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was just wondering," Martin complained, and he drifted to the College Inn where, in an injured and melancholy manner, he devoured an enormous banana-split and a bar of almond chocolate, as he meditated: "I want to take bacteriology.
-- Now, in melancholy worry about his own unreasonableness, he found that he was developing the same contempt for Robertshaw's rules of the thumb--and for most of the work in anatomy.
-- VII Angus Duer's studiousness and his reverence for correct manners were alike offended by Clif's bawdy singing, Clif's howling conversation, Clif's fondness for dropping things in people's soup, and Clif's melancholy inability to keep his hands washed.
-- Her confidence in him, the affection of this uprooted old woman bewildered in a strange land, overcame him; he lost all his whisky- colored feeling that he was a nimble fellow, and in a melancholy way, with all the weight of life again upon him, he sighed that no, nothing had happened, but he'd forgotten to tell Madeline something--so shor--so sorry call so late--could he speak Mad just minute-- Then Madeline was bubbling, "Why, Marty dear, what is it?
-- "Why--gosh--I'll 'phone her--darn' nice of you to ask us--" It was not till melancholy dusk, when Leora had accepted and promised to bring with her a probationer-nurse named Nelly Byers, that Martin began to brood: "Wonder if he did have a headache last night?
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：
-- Prompting you and giving you ev-ery means for your defence; illness, I said, delirium, injury, melancholy and the police officers and all the rest of it?
-- Incidentally the murder of Lizaveta served indeed to confirm the last hypothesis: a man commits two murders and forgets that the door is open!Fi-nally, the confession, at the very moment when the case was hopelessly muddled by the false evidence given by Nikolay through melancholy and fanaticism, and when, moreover, there were no proofs against the real criminal, no suspi-cions even (Porfiry Petrovitch fully kept his word) all this did much to soften the sentence.
-- Pulcheria Alexandrovna was delighted to give her bless-ing to Dounia's marriage with Razumihin; but after the marriage she became even more melancholy and anxious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young motherto be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.
-- Iwas very much shocked to hear of this melancholy accident, andsaid I thought I had better have some water.
-- Iremember how I seemed to float, then, down the melancholy gloryof that track upon the sea, away into the world of dreams.
-- To divert his thought from this melancholy subject, I informedMicawber that I relied upon him for a bowl of punch, and led himto the lemons.
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