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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a melancholy confirmation: ain'tit?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impos-sible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
-- They had not been long seated and composed when Mr. Woodhouse, with a melancholy shake of the head and a sigh, called his daughter's attention to the sad change at Hartfield since she had been there last.
-- Fairfax of the regiment of in-fantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in ac-tion abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl.
-- It might be weeks, it might be only a few days, before the horse were useable; but no preparations could be ventured on, and it was all melancholy stagnation.
-- It reminded her of their first forlorn tete-a-tete, on the evening of Mrs. Weston's wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Inward melancholy it was impossible for a man like Oak, introspective far beyond his neighbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present untoward page of his history.
-- Fray here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancholy required when the persons involved in the given misfortune do not belong to your own family.
-- Cainy Ball turned the handle of Gabriel's grindstone, his head performing a melancholy see-saw up and down with each turn of the wheel.
-- In juxtaposition with Troy, Oak had a melancholy tendency to look like a candle beside gas, and ill at ease, he went out again, thinking he would go home; for, under the circumstances, he had no heart for the scene in the barn.
-- Joseph drank for a moderately long time, then for a longer time, saying, as he lowered the jug, "'Tis pretty drinking very pretty drinking, and is more than cheerful on my melancholy errand, so to speak it."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
-- This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him and who hear it from his own lips with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
-- I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections.
-- Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.
-- All of soul- inspiriting fled with sleep, and dark melancholy clouded every thought.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired itslook of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
-- Nightly the dark tree-lined streetsresounded with dancing feet, and from parlors tinkled pianos where soprano voices blended with those of soldier guestsin the pleasing melancholy of "The Bugles Sang Truce" and "Your Letter Came, but Came Too Late" plaintiveballads that brought exciting tears to soft eyes which had never known the tears of real grief.
-- Scarlett felt her heart beat faster as the sweet melancholy of the waltz came to her: "The years creep slowly by, Lorena!
-- The shrill, melancholy minor of Prissy was raised, "Jes' a few mo' days, ter tote de wee-ry load ..." The songgrated on Scarlett, its sad implications frightening her, and slipping on a wrapper she pattered out into the hall and tothe back stairs and shouted: "Shut up that singing, Prissy!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!Call Estella."
-- I shall think of it with a melancholy satisfaction when I wake up in the night.
-- It was agreed to be done; and a most melancholy day I passed.
-- We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.
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