serviceable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 有用的， 耐用的，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：
-- A lightning conductor would be very serviceable to us at present.
-- His assistants in the laborious task comprised twenty dogs and thirty men, five of whom were blacks, and very serviceable in tracking up any strayed beasts.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from ac-tual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.'
-- We will, however, since you so bid us, refrain from actual fighting, but we will make serviceable suggestions to the Argives, that they may not all of them perish in your displeasure.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been serviceable and devoted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this document, I learned that Mr. Micawberbeing again arrested, was in a final paroxysm of despair; and thathe begged me to send him his knife and pint pot, by bearer, as theymight prove serviceable during the brief remainder of his existencein jail.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm.
-- Mr. Woodhouse could not be soon reconciled; but the worst was overcome, the idea was given; time and continual repetition must do the rest. To Emma's entreaties and as-surances succeeded Mr. Knightley's, whose fond praise of her gave the subject even a kind of welcome; and he was soon used to be talked to by each, on every fair occasion. They had all the assistance which Isabella could give, by letters of the strongest approbation; and Mrs. Weston was ready, on the first meeting, to consider the subject in the most serviceable light first, as a settled, and, secondly, as a good one well aware of the nearly equal importance of the two recommendations to Mr. Woodhouse's mind. It was agreed upon, as what was to be; and every body by whom he was used to be guided assuring him that it would be for his happiness; and having some feelings himself which almost admitted it, he began to think that some time or other in another year or two, perhaps it might not be so very bad if the marriage did take place.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, as they went along, Herbert reflected, that I might, after all, have been brought there on some genuine and serviceable errand tending to Provis's safety, and, bethinking himself that in that case interruption must be mischievous, left his guide and Startop on the edge of the quarry, and went on by himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to ascertain whether all was right within.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That he had once, by way of ex-periment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a ser-vant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, say that the child of a King and the child of a Weaver were born to-night in the same moment, what was that disparity, to the death of any human creature who was serviceable to, or beloved by, another, while this abandoned woman lived on!
-- 'You are useful to Mrs. Gradgrind, and (in a generally pervading way) you are serviceable in the family also; so I understand from Miss Louisa, and, indeed, so I have observed myself.
-- I should like to be serviceable to you, if you will let me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was also that attentive listening expression in her face, which is seen in the faces of the blind; but she was not blind, having one tolerably serviceable eye.
-- He had no hopeful inquiry to make at present, concerning Little Dorrit either; but he argued with himself that it might for anything he knew it might be serviceable to the poor child, if he renewed this acquaintance.
-- if he has the misfortune to strike out something serviceable to the nation, he must follow where it leads him.'
-- More Fortune-TellingMaggy sat at her work in her great white cap with its quantity of opaque frilling hiding what profile she had (she had none to spare), and her serviceable eye brought to bear upon her occupation, on the window side of the room.
-- With sufficient occupation on his hands, now that he had this additional task such a task had many and many a serviceable man died of before his day Arthur Clennam led a life of slight variety.
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：
-- Their distance from the base of the fatal hill was but a few rods, and the steeds had been serviceable only in crossing the shallow stream.
-- he said; 'but when my eye ranged along his ribs for a place to get the bullet in would you think it, Uncas I saw the musicianer's blower; and so, after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose death can profit no one, and whose life, if this tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable to our own ends.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Gardiner and the children were to remain in Hert- fordshire a few days longer, as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These I set up to dry within my circle or hedge, and when they were fit for use I carried them to my cave; and here, during the next season, I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose; thus, afterwards, I took care never to be without them; and as my wicker-ware decayed, I made more, espe-cially strong, deep baskets to place my corn in, instead of sacks, when I should come to have any quantity of it.
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