promissory是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 约定的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clif took him to his own boarding-house--which was decidedly less promissory of prosperity than Clif's clothes--firmly gave him a cold bath to bring him to, and put him to bed.
-- Mr. Pugh sat nicely at desks, and he was pleasant and promissory to everybody who came to see him; clergymen, gamblers, G.A.R.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But at no time of my life,' said Mr. Micawber, 'have Ienjoyed a higher degree of satisfaction than in pouring my griefs (ifI may describe difficulties, chiefly arising out of warrants ofattorney and promissory notes at two and four months, by thatword) into the bosom of my friend Copperfield.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he recalled the scandal with a sharper, to whom he had lost money, and given a promissory note, and against whom he had himself lodged a complaint, asserting that he had cheated him.
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