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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would entertain myself in forming and directing the minds of hopeful young men, by convincing them, from my own remem-brance, experience, and observation, fortified by numerous examples, of the usefulness of virtue in public and private life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their father walked on in a hopeful and satisfied frame of mind.
-- Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
-- It was the more hopeful as the town to which Sissy had directed him was within three hours' journey of Liverpool, whence he could be swiftly dispatched to any part of the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I heartily agree with you, my dear uncle," was my somewhat hopeful rejoinder.
-- This wonderful and surprising conversation which took place through the vast mass of the earth's labyrinth, these words exchanged, the speakers being about five miles apart--ended with hopeful and pleasant expressions.
-- Your name engraved at every important stage of your glorious journey leads the hopeful traveler direct to the great and mighty discovery to which you devoted such energy and courage.
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：
-- John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.
-- He had no hopeful inquiry to make at present, concerning Little Dorrit either; but he argued with himself that it might for anything he knew it might be serviceable to the poor child, if he renewed this acquaintance.
-- But he took the cigars, on Sundays, and was glad to get them; and sometimes even condescended to walk up and down the yard with the donor (who was proud and hopeful then), and benignantly to smoke one in his society.
-- Tip had turned his liberty to hopeful account by becoming a billiard-marker.
-- The foreigner, by name John Baptist Cavalletto they called him Mr Baptist in the Yard was such a chirping, easy, hopeful little fellow, that his attraction for Pancks was probably in the force of contrast.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a cheerful, hopeful letter, full of lively descriptions of camp life, marches, and military news, and only at the end did the writer's heart over-flow with fatherly love and longing for the little girls at home.
-- 'If something very pleasant should happen now, we should think it a delightful month,' said Beth, who took a hopeful view of everything, even November.
-- For several minutes there was nothing but the sound of sobbing in the room, mingled with broken words of com-fort, tender assurances of help, and hopeful whispers that died away in tears.
-- Everything appeared to feel the hopeful change.
-- Hannah had 'dished up' and astonishing breakfast for the traveler, finding it impossible to vent her excitement in any other way, and Meg and Jo fed their mother like du-tiful young storks, while they listened to her whispered account of Father's state, Mr. Brooke's promise to stay and nurse him, the delays which the storm occasioned on the homeward journey, and the unspeakable comfort Laurie's hopeful face had given her when she arrived, worn out with fatigue, anxiety, and cold.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.
-- The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter part of this speech, was hailed by a boisterous shout from all the hopeful pupils of the merry old gentleman.
-- CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its many and growing commercial opportunities gave it widespread fame, which made of it a giant magnet, drawing to itself, from all quarters, the hopeful and the hopeless--those who had their fortune yet to make and those whose fortunes and affairs had reached a disastrous climax elsewhere.
-- Next day he went again to the office and opened his mail, suspicious and hopeful of its contents.
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