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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her.
-- A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other.
-- He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very suf-ficient income; for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any defi-ciency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
-- 'I am glad you think I have been useful to her; but Har-riet only wanted drawing out, and receiving a few, very few hints.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful.
-- They were indifferently well assisted by the old maltster, who, when the malting season from October to April had passed, made himself useful upon any of the bordering farmsteads.
-- She can marry him: he is content, and leads a useful life.
-- "I had thought of that, and I have considered that if I can't appeal to your honour I can trust to your well, shrewdness we'll call it not to lose five hundred pounds in prospect, and also make a bitter enemy of a man who is willing to be an extremely useful friend."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After much shaking of the branches of the family tree, the old lady came to the conclusion that of all persons who could be useful to her nephew among the selfish genus of rich relations, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was the least likely to refuse.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imag-ine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
-- I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make my-self useful to my fellow beings.
-- When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
-- This sentiment of the worth of my nature supported me when others would have been oppressed, for I deemed it criminal to throw away in useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found poker the most useful of allSouthern customs, poker and a steady head for whisky; and it was his natural aptitude for cards and amber liquor thatbrought to Gerald two of his three most prized possessions, his valet and his plantation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For was it not," said Joe, with his old air of lucid exposition, "that my only wish were to be useful to you, I should not have had the honor of breaking wittles in the company and abode of gentlemen."
-- On Wemmick's return from working these mechanical appliances, I expressed the great admiration with which I regarded them, and he said, "Well, you know, they're both pleasant and useful to the Aged.
-- "You said, speaking for your friend, that you could tell me how to do something useful and good.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the dog, 'my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my live-lihood?'
-- They went and announced him to the 102 Grimms' Fairy Talesking, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learn-ing navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
-- When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic two years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
-- That the loss of your eyes would be no impediment to your bodily strength, by which you might still be useful to his majesty; that blind-ness is an addition to courage, by concealing dangers from us; that the fear you had for your eyes, was the greatest dif-ficulty in bringing over the enemy's fleet, and it would be sufficient for you to see by the eyes of the ministers, since 81the greatest princes do no more.
-- But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so that among us, it would be little esteemed.
-- From this way of reasoning, the author drew several moral applications, useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat.
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