greatly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为ad. 大大地， 非常，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the men, Ajax, son of Telamon, was much the foremost so long as Achilles' anger lasted, for Achil-les excelled him greatly and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark, and in archery.
-- I am in haste to help the Trojans, who miss me greatly when I am not among them; but urge your husband, and of his own self also let him make haste to overtake me before I am out of the city.
-- Hector was greatly grieved at the loss of his charioteer, but let him lie for all his sorrow, while he went in quest of another driver; nor did his steeds have to go long without one, for he presently found brave Archeptolemus the son of Iphitus, and made him get up be-hind the horses, giving the reins into his hand.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Opinion was greatly divided about his occupation.
-- He came round greatly concerned.
-- He does not appear to have been either very much frightened or very greatly surprised at the moment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet I was greatly disturbed at the apparition.
-- He was almost sober, but greatly disturbed in his mind.
-- The quality of the sounds changed so greatly that it arrested my attention.
-- There came a season of thunder-storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; but at last the raft was completed.
-- So I drifted for three days, eating and drinking sparingly, and meditating upon all that had happened to me, not de-siring very greatly then to see men again.
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：
-- The whites have assisted greatly in rendering the tradi-tions of the Aborigines more obscure by their own manner of corrupting names.
-- As they were also sure of foot, the Narragansetts were greatly sought for by females who were obliged to travel over the roots and holes in the 'new countries.'
-- The repast, which was greatly aided by the addition of a few delicacies that Heyward had the precaution to bring with him when they left their horses, was exceedingly re-freshing to the weary party.
-- His apprehensions were, however, greatly relieved, when he saw that the leader had summoned his warriors to him-self in counsel.
-- We look back at this ignorance, or infatuation, whichever it may be called, with wonder, knowing that the neglect of an eminence, whose difficulties, like those of Mount Defiance, have been so greatly exaggerated, would, at the present time, prove fatal to the reputation of the engineer who had planned the works at their base, or to that of the general whose lot it was to defend them.
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：
-- He was not greatly interested in the Impressionists.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found, a hundred feet off, a limpid stream, which seemed to have been greatly increased by the rains, and which filtered through the sand; but nothing in which to put the water, not even a shell among the downs.
-- In fact, when we left Richmond, the wind was blowing from the northeast, and its very violence greatly proves that it could not have varied.
-- Hardened lava and crusted scoria formed a sort of natural staircase of large steps, which would greatly facilitate the ascent to the summit of the mountain.
-- These stones, when decomposed by heat, made a very strong quicklime, greatly increased by slacking, at least as pure as if it had been produced by the calcination of chalk or marble.
-- The ingredients for the manufacture being close together would greatly facilitate the treatment of the ore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The truth is and, as there is no accounting for tastes, even a taste so strange as this may be recorded without being looked upon as a wilful and malicious invention the truth is that neither Mrs Wackles nor her eldest daughter had at any time greatly favoured the pretensions of Mr Swiveller, being accustomed to make slight mention of him as 'a gay young man' and to sigh and shake their heads ominously whenever his name was mentioned.
-- Greatly softened by this soothing beverage, Mr Codlin now bethought him of his companions, and acquainted mine host of the Sandboys that their arrival might be shortly looked for.
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