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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
-- All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands to-gether in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hate-ful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.
-- I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea.
-- I gave due praises to every thing I saw, whereof his excellency took not the least notice till after supper; when, there being no third companion, he told me with a very melancholy air 'that he doubted he must throw down his houses in town and country, to rebuild them after the present mode; de-stroy all his plantations, and cast others into such a form 220 Gulliver's Travelsas modern usage required, and give the same directions to all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase his majesty's displeasure; that the admira-tion I appeared to be under would cease or diminish, when he had informed me of some particulars which, probably, I never heard of at court, the people there being too much taken up in their own speculations, to have regard to what passed here below.'
-- As every person called up made exactly the same ap-pearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerated among us within these hundred years past; how the pox, under all its consequences and denominations had altered every lineament of an English countenance; shortened the size of bodies, unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh loose and rancid.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- Body number four, under dreary pretences of being droll (when it was very melancholy indeed), made the shallowest pretences of concealing pitfalls of knowledge, into which it was the duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled.
-- It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering.
-- A clattering of clogs upon the pavement; a rapid ringing of bells; and all the melancholy mad elephants, polished and oiled up for the day's monotony, were at their heavy exercise again.
-- He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quiet path for him and how he had sometimes seen a shade of melancholy on her blessed face, that smote him with remorse and despair.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every now and then I could see a fresh white head, and a slightly melancholy expression of countenance, peering at me through the vapor.
-- I could not help feeling a sense of melancholy come over me.
-- "Then one of the first matters to see to will be to repair the raft," was my rather melancholy response.
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：
-- He could wheel himself about in a wheeled chair, and he had a bath-chair with a small motor attachment, so he could drive himself slow-ly round the garden and into the line melancholy park, of which he was really so proud, though he pretended to be flippant about it.
-- Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy speci-men of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
-- He looked over the melancholy park.
-- He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Melancholy streets, in a penitential garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows, in dire despondency.
-- Mrs Gowan with a gentle melancholy upon her, occasioned by her son's being reduced to court the swinish public as a follower of the low Arts, instead of asserting his birthright and putting a ring through its nose as an acknowledged Barnacle, headed the conversation at dinner on the evil days.
-- They rode to the top of Oxford Street, and there alighting, dived in among the great streets of melancholy stateliness, and the little streets that try to be as stately and succeed in being more melancholy, of which there is a labyrinth near Park Lane.
-- He stopped these angry reproaches with a wave of his hand, and sobbed out, raising his face and shaking his melancholy head at his younger daughter, 'Amy, I know that you are innocent in intention.
-- With that he stood on the landing, watching the old man down: and when he came into the room again, said, with a solemn satisfaction on him, 'A melancholy sight that, Mr Clennam, though one has the consolation of knowing that he doesn't feel it himself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters.
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