ingenious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 设计独特的; 别致的, 巧妙的; 灵巧的，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：
-- By an ingenious device he sets before the rescuers a search which compels their circumnavigation of the globe around a certain parallel of the southern hemisphere.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In 1864 he won the quinquennial French prize of 脗拢2,000 for this ingenious application of electricity--A voltaic battery, so called from Volta, its designer, is an apparatus consisting of a series of metal plates arranged in pairs and subjected to the action of saline solutions for producing currents of electricity.
-- My worthy and ingenious uncle did not appear to consider that we came under the denomination.
-- This ingenious application of electricity to practical purposes enabled us to move along by the light of an artificial day, amid even the flow of the most inflammable and combustible gases.
-- It was enough to drive the most ingenious classifier of the upper regions out of his mind, and to upset all his received ideas about botany.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is not in a large way, but he is well known as a very ingenious man.
-- The ingenious culprit was a man of great modesty and good sense; and, though a plain man, had been too much accustomed to combine what was original and daring in conception with what was patient and minute in execution, to be by any means an ordinary man.
-- Little peculiarities were easily to be detected by experienced eyes in Mr Doyce's way of managing his affairs, but they almost always involved some ingenious simplification of a difficulty, and some plain road to the desired end.
-- Maggy was very susceptible to personal slights, and very ingenious in inventing them.
-- Mrs Plornish was particularly ingenious in this art; and attained so much celebrity for saying 'Me ope you leg well soon,' that it was considered in the Yard but a very short remove indeed from speaking Italian.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His last whim had been to bring with him on his weekly visits some new, useful, and ingenious article for the young housekeep-er.
-- Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
-- In the excitement of the moment, Ahab had forgotten that since the loss of his leg he had never once stepped on board of any vessel at sea but his own, and then it was always by an ingenious and very handy mechanical contrivance peculiar to the Pequod, and a thing not to be rigged and shipped in any other vessel at a moment's warning.
-- Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices, chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; and all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
-- The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes.
-- the ham being kept clean and preserved from dust, by the ingenious expedient of making a hole in the loaf by pulling out a portion of the crumb, and stuffing it therein.
-- Ingenious workman, ain't he, Oliver?'
-- In pursuance of this request, Nancy quickly laid the cloth; disappearing for a few minutes, she presently returned with a pot of porter and a dish of sheep's heads: which gave occasion to several pleasant witticisms on the part of Mr. Sikes, founded upon the singular coincidence of 'jemmies' being a can name, common to them, and also to an ingenious implement much used in his profession.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
-- But on returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was rea-son to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and mighty ingenious under the CIRCUMSTANCES!
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