goodness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 善良， 仁慈； (食物等) 精华int. 天哪，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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sowerberry, will you have the goodness to come here a moment, my dear?'
-- But, for many days, Oliver remained insensible to all the goodness of his new friends.
-- 'And very grateful indeed, sir, for your goodness to me.'
-- Thank gracious goodness heavins, I've found him!'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To Jane herself,' she exclaimed, 'there could be no possi-bility of objection; all loveliness and goodness as she is! her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her man-ners captivating.
-- 'Poor Wickham!there is such an expression of goodness in his countenance!such an openness and gentleness in his manner!'
-- By this time she is actually with them!If such goodness does not make her miserable now, she will never deserve to be happy!What a meeting for her, when she first sees my aunt!'
-- The vague and un-settled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I saw plainly the goodness of his observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
-- I contented myself with these discoveries for this time, and came back, musing with myself what course I might take to know the virtue and goodness of any of the fruits or plants which I should discover, but could bring it to no conclusion; for, in short, I had made so little observa-tion while I was in the Brazils, that I knew little of the plants in the field; at least, very little that might serve to any pur-pose now in my distress.
-- These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present con-dition, with all its hardships and misfortunes; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, 'Is any affliction like mine?'
-- In a word, as my life was a life of sorrow one way, so it was a life of mercy another; and I wanted nothing to make it a life of comfort but to be able to make my sense of God's goodness to me, and care over me in this condition, be my daily consolation; and after I did make a just improvement on these things, I went away, and was no more sad.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
-- I require so much!He must have all Edward's virtues, and his person and manners must ornament his goodness with every possible charm."
-- I have not had so many opportunities of estimating the minuter propensities of his mind, his inclinations and tastes, as you have; but I have the highest opinion in the world of his goodness and sense.
-- No one made any objection but Marianne, who with her usual inattention to the forms of general civility, exclaimed, "Your Ladyship will have the goodness to excuse ME you know I detest cards.
-- "It is a matter of great joy to me; and I feel the goodness of Colonel Brandon most sensibly.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You're so kind," said Carrie, feeling the goodness of such attention in her strange situation.
-- Carrie noticed among them the sprinkling of goodness and the heavy percentage of vice.
-- Goodness knows when she would be back now.
-- Not evil, but goodness more often allures the feeling mind unused to reason.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck?
-- He told them he was a pirate been a pirate for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home now to take out some fresh men, and thanks to goodness he'd been robbed last night and put ashore off of a steamboat without a cent, and he was glad of it; it was the blessedest thing that ever hap-pened to him, because he was a changed man now, and happy for the first time in his life; and, poor as he was, he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean, and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path; for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted with all pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there without money, he would get there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he would say to him, 'Don't you thank me, don't you give me no credit; it all belongs to them dear people in Pokeville camp- meeting, natural brothers and benefactors of the race, and that dear preacher there, the truest friend a pirate ever had!'
-- Blame it, I says, I might get hunted up and jailed; I'd better lay low and keep dark, and not write at all; the thing's awful mixed now; trying to better it, I've wors- ened it a hundred times, and I wish to goodness I'd just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business!
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