useful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 有用的， 实用的； 有益的， 有帮助的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!I was afraid, from what you said at first, that some-thing had occurred to stop them in their useful course,' said Scrooge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Courage!Business!You have business before you; useful business.
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
-- 'The prisoner was as open in his confidence with me which arose out of my helpless situation as he was kind, and good, and useful to my father.
-- 130 A tale of two cities Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable char-acteristics.
-- Mr. Stryver shouldered his way through the law, like some great engine forcing itself through turbid water, and dragged his useful friend in his wake, like a boat towed astern.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfor-tunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear we have enough and more than enough such in reality.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the Oblonskys' household, as in all families indeed, there was one inconspicuous but most valuable and useful person, Marya Philimonovna.
-- The only thing that interested him now was the question of in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and thus with most justice, extricate himself from the mud with which she had spattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honorable, and useful existence.
-- They did not know that happy as the princess was in her daughter's house, and useful as she felt herself to be there, she had been extremely miserable, both on her own account and her husband's, ever since they had married their last and favorite daughter, and the old home had been left empty.
-- "I was just telling Anna Arkadyevna," said Vorkuev, "that if she were to put a hundredth part of the energy she devotes to this English girl to the public question of the education of Russian children, she would be doing a great and useful work."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fatty was of all the new Freshmen candidates the most useful to Digamma Pi.
-- He did think it was a very nice word indeed, and constantly useful to a busy worker, but her smile was desirable.
-- He could at times take the lead away from Bert, whom he considered useful but slightly indiscreet, and unable to grasp the "full value of a dollar."
-- Leora was useful to him during his oration.
-- The Bindledorf Outfit is not only useful but exquisitely beautiful, adorns and gives class to any office.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, of course, I shall be glad if I succeed in being useful to my family.
-- And it's not a question of self-sacrifice, it's simply work, honourable, useful work which is as good as any other and much better than the work of a Raphael and a Pushkin, be-cause it is more useful.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We turned back,on my humbly insinuating that it might be useful to me hereafter;and he told the clerk that the carrier had instructions to call for it atnoon.
-- 153Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could inthe warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of sixshillings a week.
-- When we had had our laugh quite out, which was after some time,he told me that Miss Mowcher had quite an extensive connection,and made herself useful to a va- riety of people in a variety ofways.
-- I rest a good deal of hope on her observing how useful I amto her father (for I trust to be very useful to him indeed, MasterCopperfield), and how I smooth the way for him, and keep himstraight.
-- I took Mr. Dick with me, because, acutely sensitive to my aunt'sreverses, and sincerely believing that no galley-slave or convictworked as I did, he had begun to fret and worry himself out ofspirits and appetite, as having nothing useful to do.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
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