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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are more useful to my mother, and more pleasant with her than I can ever be,' Louisa resumed.
-- 'You are useful to Mrs. Gradgrind, and (in a generally pervading way) you are serviceable in the family also; so I understand from Miss Louisa, and, indeed, so I have observed myself.
-- I was not wholly indifferent, for I had a hope of being pleasant and useful to Tom.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much indeed did it resemble that useful article, that a compass was said in his presence to have made considerable N (Nasal) deviation.
-- Shortly after we entered a place of communal jurisdiction called Ejulberg, and the clock of which would then have struck twelve, if any Icelandic church had been rich enough to possess so valuable and useful an article.
-- "Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring," replied my uncle dogmatically, "science has fallen into many errors--errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth."
-- "Here is the manometer, the most useful of all, and which I gladly accept in lieu of the rest.
-- Now, as I had a notion to combine the useful and the agreeable, my favorite pastime was birds' nesting.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She's a useful nonentity!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody got into the prison from whom he derived anything useful or good, and she could find no patron for him but her old friend and godfather.
-- 'Have you ever known it to be beforehand in the adoption of any useful thing?
-- Ever known it to set an example of any useful kind?'
-- 'And if you will be so good, in your better knowledge of the family, as to communicate freely with me, and to point out to me any means by which you think I may be delicately and really useful to Little Dorrit, I shall feel under an obligation to you.'
-- I have been faithful to you, and useful to you, and I am attached to you.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- She was proud, and her pride was useful just then, for it helped her hide her mortification, anger, and disgust at what she had just heard.
-- She is useful and mild, and does her best, But she is not fair to see, And we cannot give her your place dear, Nor worship her as we worship thee.
-- That's a useful accom-plishment, which no woman should be without,' said Mrs. March, laughing inaudibly at the recollection of Jo's dinner party, for she had met Miss Crocker and heard her account of it.
-- Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
-- Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.
-- Such a statement may prove useful here.
-- For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary duties: repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the shape of clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bull's eyes in the deck, or new tree-nails in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more directly pertaining to his special business; he was moreover unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both useful and capricious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
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