prosperity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 繁荣， 兴旺，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this, his prosperity consisted.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why, manage like Mihail Petrovitch, or let the land for half the crop or for rent to the peasants; that one can do--only that's just how the general prosperity of the country is being ruined.
-- He says, too, that education may be the consequence of greater prosperity and comfort, of more frequent washing, as he says, but not of being able to read and write..." "Well, then, I'm very glad--or the contrary, very sorry, that I'm in agreement with Spencer; only I've known it a long while.
-- Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.
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.
-- Thus it happened that while Martin was at the height of his prosperity and credit as a physician, along the Pony River Valley sinuated the whispers that he was a gambler, that he was a "drinking man," that he never went to church; and all the godly enjoyed mourning, "Too bad to see a decent young man like that going to the dogs."
-- Martin felt that he ought to praise his chief but, to Leora's gratified amazement, he sprang up and ranted in something like Pickerbaugh's best manner: "Gentlemen of the Steel Windmill Industries, than which there is no other that has so largely contributed to the prosperity of our commonwealth, while I realize that you are getting away with every infraction of the health laws that the inspector doesn't catch you at, yet I desire to pay a tribute to your high respect for sanitation, patriotism, and cocktails, and if I only had an assistant more earnest than young Arrowsmith, I should, with your permission, become President of the United States."
-- Yes, he was for high wages for each and every workman, but he stood like a rock, like a boulder, like a moraine, for protecting the prosperity of all manufacturers, merchants, and real-estate owners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What I could wish to see, would be ameeting between Mr. Micawber and my family at a festiveentertainment, to be given at my family's expense; where Mr.Micawber's health and prosperity being proposed, by someleading member of my family, Mr. Micawber might have anopportunity of developing his views.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are sick of prosperity and indulgence.
-- 'I sick of prosperity and indulgence!You are quite mis-taken.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for anyoverweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present anunbroken front to the world.
-- And, quickening all of the affairs of the section, was the high tide of prosperity then rolling over the South.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.
-- As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.
-- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.
-- Ah!Had I given Joe no reason to doubt my constancy, and to think that in prosperity I should grow cold to him and cast him off?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, happy Sissy's happy children loving her; all children loving her; she, grown learned in childish lore; thinking no innocent and pretty fancy ever to be despised; trying hard to know her humbler fellow-creatures, and to beautify their lives of machinery and reality with those imaginative graces and delights, without which the heart of infancy will wither up, the sturdiest physical manhood will be morally stark death, and the plainest national prosperity figures can show, will be the Writing on the Wall, she holding this course as part of no fantastic vow, or bond, or brotherhood, or sisterhood, or pledge, or covenant, or fancy dress, or fancy fair; but simply as a duty to be done, did Louisa see these things of herself?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, let me be a warning!Let no man,' he cried, looking haggardly about, 'fail to preserve at least that little of the times of his prosperity and respect.
-- With those words, he pressed his hand and released it; and his daughter, laying her face against his, encircled him in the hour of his prosperity with her arms, as she had in the long years of his adversity encircled him with her love and toil and truth; and poured out her full heart in gratitude, hope, joy, blissful ecstasy, and all for him.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr. Bingley from your sister, and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate prosperity and blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham.
-- She felt it so; and though, in looking forward, neither rational hap-piness nor worldly prosperity could be justly expected for her sister, in looking back to what they had feared, only two hours ago, she felt all the advantages of what they had gained.
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