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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in spite of this melancholy reflection, the Frenchman submitted gracefully to the compulsory delay.
-- M. Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia.
-- Below nothing was discernible but a melancholy heap of twisted and blackened axles, shattered wagons, bent rails, charred sleepers; the boiler, burst by the shock, had scattered its plates to enormous distances.
-- It was a melancholy journey.
-- As soon as he was sure of it, he crept over to Glenarvan and John Mangles, and startling them from their melancholy thoughts, led them to the end of the hut.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the dis-tance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.
-- In its cold light I saw be-yond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
-- The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
-- It was a most melancholy vigil, and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.
-- It is melancholy outside and in.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember my melancholy was intolerable; I felt inclined to cry; I sat and wondered and wondered uncomfortably; the consciousness that everything was strange weighed terribly upon me; I could understand that it was all foreign and strange.
-- How melancholy they had been when they saw me off!For a month before, they had been talking of my departure and sorrowing over it; and at the waterfall, of an evening, when we parted for the night, they would hug me so tight and kiss me so warmly, far more so than before.
-- 'General, they say you require rest,' said Nastasia Phil-ipovna, with the melancholy face of a child whose toy is taken away.
-- The melancholy appearance of some of her guests seemed to add to her sarcastic humour, and perhaps the very cynicism and cruelty of the game proposed by Ferdishenko pleased her.
-- All the time he was trying to forget some thing, to escape from some idea that haunted him; but melancholy thoughts came back, though he would so willingly have escaped from them.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave Cora an affectionate shake of the hand, lifted his rifle, and after regarding it a moment with melancholy so-licitude, laid it carefully aside, and descended to the place where Chingachgook had just disappeared.
-- They had answered his melancholy and mourning by sympathy and sorrow; his assertions, by gestures of confirmation; and his boasting, with the exulta-tion of savages.
-- 'They are gone, and they are harmless,' continued Hawkeye, waving his hand, with a melancholy smile at their manifest alarm; 'they'll never shout the war-whoop nor strike a blow with the tomahawk again!And of all those who aided in placing them where they lie, Chingachgook and I only are living!
-- The melancholy air, the hour, together with the vast frame of the man who thus leaned, musing, against the English ramparts, left no doubt as to his person in the mind of the observant spectator.
-- Montcalm lingered long and melancholy on the strand where he had been left by his companion, brooding deeply on the temper which his ungovernable ally had just dis-covered.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No signs of life oc-curred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bull-frog from a neighboring marsh, as if sleeping uncomfortably and turn-ing suddenly in his bed.
-- The schoolhouse being de-serted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plough-boy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not without melancholy that I wander among my recollections of the world of letters in London when first, bashful but eager, I was introduced to it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same number, winter and summer, in storm or calm, in good times and bad, held this melancholy midnight rendezvous at Fleischmann's bread box.
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