successful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 圆满的； 顺利的； 成功的，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：
-- Consequently they were equally successful in cattle breeding and farming.
-- "Have the rebels been successful up to this time?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might have been successful in life, and never have gone to fight the Turks.'
-- He had come from Switzerland, where he had just undergone a successful course of treatment for idiocy (SIC!).
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They may be successful for the moment but if we fight as we ought they will find it a hard matter to take the ships.'
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：
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'he had been very seriously considering my whole sto-ry, as far as it related both to myself and my country; that he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance 329of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had bestowed; had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strength nor agility of a common Yahoo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet; had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defence, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather: lastly, that I could neither run with speed, nor climb trees like my brethren,' as he called them, 'the Yahoos in his country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Successful in this, happy in carrying off her plate anywhere, to make a table of her lap, or a box, or the ground, or even as was supposed, to stand on tip-toe, dining moderately at a mantel-shelf; the great anxiety of Little Dorrit's day was set at rest.
-- We will not disparage this gentleman, because he is successful in his addresses to the beautiful object of his ambition; and we will not question her natural right to bestow her love on one whom she finds worthy of it.'
-- The occasional rattle of applause upon the tables of the Snuggery, denoted the successful termination of a morsel of Harmony; or the responsive acceptance, by the united children, of some toast or sentiment offered to them by their Father.
-- And how, until the present hour, when authorities mighty in the Bank and learned in the law declared their successful labours ended, they had confided in no other human being.
-- This again went to the former point, and showed Mr Meagles with all good breeding that, so far, he had been brilliantly successful in his deep designs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Amy went on with her work, in the proud consciousness of virtue and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath.
-- She had not the heart to refuse her splendid, successful boy any-thing, and answered warmly... 'I'll come, Teddy, rain or shine, and march before you, playing 'Hail the conquering hero comes' on a jew's-harp.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
-- But to render this acuteness at all successful in the end, the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies; for of what present avail to the becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that assures him he is exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his port?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 20 r. Collins was not left long to the silent contempla-Mtion of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she en-tered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect or their nearer connection.
-- Even Elizabeth began to fear not that Bingley was indifferent but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lest this order of individual should permanently pass, let me put down some of the most striking characteristics of his most successful manner and method.
-- At that time the department store was in its earliest form of successful operation, and there were not many.
-- They were handsome, bustling, successful affairs, with a host of clerks and a swarm of patrons.
-- Rector's, with its polished marble walls and floor, its profusion of lights, its show of china and silverware, and, above all, its reputation as a resort for actors and professional men, seemed to him the proper place for a successful man to go.
-- He loved fine clothes, good eating, and particularly the company and acquaintanceship of successful men.
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