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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They seemed more hopeful than before.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stroeve went twice a day to the hospital to enquire after his wife, who still declined to see him; and came away at first relieved and hopeful because he was told that she seemed to be growing better, and then in despair because, the complication which the doctor had feared having ensued, recovery was impossible.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hippolyte himself seemed to be hopeful about his state of health, as is often the case with consumptives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was no less tickled than his hopeful assistant, and they both stood for some seconds, grinning and gasping and wagging their heads at each other, on either side of the post, like an unmatchable pair of Chinese idols.
-- This hopeful pupil edified by the above terrible reproval, the bachelor turned to another.
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