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:
-- These sudden and apparently successful experiments had all taken place in a few minutes of that time which had now become so precious.
-- Conquering his disgust, however, he was able, with an averted face, to address his successful enemy.
-- Thus far the knowledge of Heyward assisted him in the explanation; and as he now knew that the interruption was caused by the unlooked-for return of a successful war-party, every disagreeable sensation was qui-eted in inward congratulation, for the opportune relief and insignificance it conferred on himself.
-- There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabu-lary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.
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:
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- And the successful books are but the successes of a season.
-- I think there would have been something ironic in the picture of the successful old man, rich and honoured, living in another the life which he, though knowing it was the better part, had not had the strength to pursue.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Top was not more successful than his masters.
-- The sailor had also made snares from the long tough fibers of a certain plant, and they were even more successful than the traps.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The lady from the Minories recounted a successful course of treatment under which she had placed her own husband, who, from manifesting one month after marriage unequivocal symptoms of the tiger, had by this means become subdued into a perfect lamb.
-- But the first day's operations were by no means of a successful character, inasmuch as the general public, though they manifested a lively interest in Mrs Jarley personally, and such of her waxen satellites as were to be seen for nothing, were not affected by any impulses moving them to the payment of sixpence a head.
-- There was the baby too, who had never closed an eye all night, but had sat as good as gold, trying to force a large orange into his mouth, and gazing intently at the lights in the chandelier there he was, sitting up in his mother's lap, staring at the gas without winking, and making indentations in his soft visage with an oyster-shell, to that degree that a heart of iron must have loved him!In short, there never was a more successful supper; and when Kit ordered in a glass of something hot to finish with, and proposed Mr and Mrs Garland before sending it round, there were not six happier people in all the world.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The prosecutor, elated by the successful verdict against Maslova, which he ascribed to his eloquence, consulted some books, then rose and said: "Simon Kartinkin, I think, should be punished according to chapter 1,452, sec.
-- It was pleasant to Nekhludoff to recall all that; it was pleasant to recall how he came near quarreling with the army officer who attempted to make a bad joke of it; how another comrade sided with him, which drew them more closely together; how merry and successful was the hunt, and how happy he felt that night returning to the railroad station.
-- This consisted in efforts to obtain a successful result in the pending petition, and preparations for departure to Siberia.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Then it had occurred to him to work upon the superstitions of his former shipmates, and he was so far successful that Gray and the doctor had come up and were already ambushed before the arrival of the treasure-hunters.
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