hopeful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 给人希望的， 抱有希望的，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：
-- Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and com-mitted hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn out-side for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.
-- Even now, when I believe he is more hopeful of himself than he has ever been, and even speaks of himself with a kind of confidence, the idea that he might need that old employment, and not find it, gives him a sudden sense of terror, like that which one may fancy strikes to the heart of a lost child.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin knew all this; and it was agonizingly painful to him to behold the supplicating, hopeful eyes and the emaciated wrist, lifted with difficulty, making the sign of the cross on the tense brow, and the prominent shoulders and hollow, gasping chest, which one could not feel consistent with the life the sick man was praying for.
-- Laska, who had been plaintively whining and fretting against the injustice of her treatment, flew straight ahead to a hopeful place that Levin knew well, and that Krak had not yet come upon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A description of him was easily procured and sent to the detectives; and some hopeful spirits, of whom Ralph was one, did not despair of his apprehension.
-- It mattered not that they made him sea-sick he made no account of this inconvenience; and, whilst his body was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His earnest feeling regarding the nasal septum was that it never hurt any patient to have part of it removed, and if the most hopeful examination could find nothing the matter with the patient's nose and throat except that he was smoking too much, still, in any case, the enforced rest after an operation was good for him.
-- They all viewed the Tozer house with hopeful interest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am far from sure that Ibelieved there was anything hopeful in it, but my mind wasthoroughly made up that it must be carried into execution.
-- Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'
-- Doctor Strong regarded him with a puzzled anddoubting look, which almost immediately subsided into a smilethat gave me great encouragement, for it was full of amiability andsweetness, and there was a simplicity in it, and indeed in his wholemanner, when the studious, pondering frost upon it was gotthrough, very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me.
-- Isat there, sturdily conning my books, until dinner-time (we wereout of school for good at three): and went down, hopeful ofbecoming a passable sort of boy yet.
-- The leaves were thick upon thetrees, and heavy with wet; but the rain had ceased, though the skywas still dark; and the hopeful birds were singing cheerfully.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak drew a slow breath, looked sadly into the bright ashpit, and seemed lost in thoughts not of the most hopeful hue.
-- The shepherd lifted the sixteen large legs and four small bodies he had himself brought, and vanished with them in the direction of the lambing field hard by their frames being now in a sleek and hopeful state, pleasantly contrasting with their death's-door plight of half an hour before.
-- It is seldom that a person with much animal spirit does not feel that the fact of his life being his own is the one qualification which singles it out as a more hopeful life than that of others who may actually resemble him in every particular.
-- And sometimes, when I am excessively hopeful and blithe, a trouble is looming in the distance: so that I often get to look upon gloom in me with content, and to fear a happy mood.
-- We seem to have shifted our positions: I have become the young and hopeful man, and you the old and unbelieving one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.
-- "Now, Handel," Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, "it seems to me that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying-glass.
-- "What a hopeful disposition you have!"
-- It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
-- And after I had sent them in, I could not keep away from the places where they were, but felt as if they were more hopeful and less desperate when I was near them.
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