gorgeous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 令人十分愉快的, 极好的; 华丽的, 灿烂的, 绚丽的，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：
-- This saddle is made of sheepskins, tanned on one side and woolly on the other, fastened by gorgeous embroidered straps.
-- But they bore steadily eastward, as much as possible, and faced the gorgeous morning light.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Literary patronage was, however, with her as much a mania as was the love of gorgeous clothes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus disguised she plucked her by perfumed robe and said, 'Come hither; Alexandrus says you are to go to the house; he is on his bed in his own room, radiant with beauty and dressed in gorgeous apparel.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a gorgeous fight, for the two fought as long as there was a seal that dared lift up his head, and when there were none they paraded grand-ly up and down the beach side by side, bellowing.
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：
-- While the eyes of the sisters were endeavoring to catch glimpses through the trees, of the flood of golden glory which formed a glittering halo around the sun, tinging here and there with ruby streaks, or bordering with narrow edg-ings of shining yellow, a mass of clouds that lay piled at no great distance above the western hills, Hawkeye turned suddenly and pointing upward toward the gorgeous heav-ens, he spoke: 'Yonder is the signal given to man to seek his food and natural rest,' he said; 'better and wiser would it be, if he could understand the signs of nature, and take a lesson from the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field!Our night, however, will soon be over, for with the moon we must be up and moving again.
-- Seated, as in life, with his form and limbs arranged in grave and decent composure, Uncas appeared, arrayed in the most gorgeous ornaments that the wealth of the tribe could furnish.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among these birds, which were about the size of a fowl, the female was uniformly brown, while the male was gorgeous in his red plumage, decorated with white spots.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men who had lounged about all night in smock-frocks and leather leggings, came out in silken vests and hats and plumes, as jugglers or mountebanks; or in gorgeous liveries as soft-spoken servants at gambling booths; or in sturdy yeoman dress as decoys at unlawful games.
-- Dear, dear, what a place it looked, that Astley's; with all the paint, gilding, and looking-glass; the vague smell of horses suggestive of coming wonders; the curtain that hid such gorgeous mysteries; the clean white sawdust down in the circus; the company coming in and taking their places; the fiddlers looking carelessly up at them while they tuned their instruments, as if they didn't want the play to begin, and knew it all beforehand!What a glow was that, which burst upon them all, when that long, clear, brilliant row of lights came slowly up; and what the feverish excitement when the little bell rang and the music began in good earnest, with strong parts for the drums, and sweet effects for the triangles!Well might Barbara's mother say to Kit's mother that the gallery was the place to see from, and wonder it wasn't much dearer than the boxes; well might Barbara feel doubtful whether to laugh or cry, in her flutter of delight.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During his service in the Senate, his relations obtained for him the post of gentleman of the Emperor's bed-chamber, and he was obliged to drive around in gorgeous uniform to thank various people.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were looking at some Indian silk shirts, gorgeous and sensual in themselves, their shape, their almost corrupt gorgeousness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
-- The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
-- The same waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
-- Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was really a gorgeous saloon from a Chicago standpoint.
-- It seems plain that schemers would choose more sequestered quarters to arrange their plans, that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save formalities, where the sharp- eared may hear, and it would scarcely be justified on the score of thirst, for the majority of those who frequent these more gorgeous places have no craving for liquor.
-- If it were not for the artificial fires of merriment, the rush of profit-seeking trade, and pleasure-selling amusements; if the various merchants failed to make the customary display within and without their establishments; if our streets were not strung with signs of gorgeous hues and thronged with hurrying purchasers, we would quickly discover how firmly the chill hand of winter lays upon the heart; how dispiriting are the days during which the sun withholds a portion of our allowance of light and warmth.
-- In what stables champed these sleek, nervous horses and rested the gorgeous carriages?
-- In the third room, or parlour, was a piano, a heavy piano lamp, with a shade of gorgeous pattern, a library table, several huge easy rockers, some dado book shelves, and a gilt curio case, filled with oddities.
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