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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been to the Hebrides, to New Guinea, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, and had succeeded in finding an important point on the western coast of Papua, where the establishment of a Scotch colony seemed to him easy, and its prosperity certain.
-- "And has greatly increased in prosperity since then, I believe," said Glenarvan.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His claim for the charity he desired seemed based on the fact that in the days of his prosperity he had given away as much as fifteen roubles at a time.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even so did it befall Peleus; the gods endowed him with all good things from his birth up-wards, for he reigned over the Myrmidons excelling all men in prosperity and wealth, and mortal though he was they gave him a goddess for his bride.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far."
-- The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A noted comic opera comedian was holding forth that week, and the air of distinction and prosperity overawed her.
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