expensive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 花费的， 昂贵的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there had been an important and joyful event: Pava, his best cow, an expensive beast, bought at a show, had calved.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch, going down, carefully took the canvas cover off his varnished gun case with his own hands, and opening it, began to get ready his expensive new-fashioned gun.
-- And his brother, who was in command of one of the most expensive regiments, and was only just married, could not decline the gift.
-- The smart maid, who came in to offer her services, with her hair done up high, and a gown more fashionable than Dolly's, was as new and expensive as the whole room.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But so far as possible have everything in sanitary- looking white-- and think of the color-schemes you can evolve, or the good wife for you, if she be one blessed with artistic tastes!Rich golden or red cushions, in a Morris chair enameled the purest white!A floor-covering of white enamel, with just a border of delicate rose!Recent and unspotted numbers of expensive magazines, with art covers, lying on a white table!Gentlemen, there is the idea of imaginative salesmanship which I wish to leave with you; there is the gospel which I hope to spread in my fresh field of endeavor, the New Idea Instrument Company of Jersey City, where at any time I shall be glad to see and shake by the hand any and all of you."
-- Everyone in the Group was familiar with New York--they stayed at the St. Regis or the Plaza and went about buying clothes and discovering small smart restaurants--and five of the twelve couples had been in Europe; had spent a week in Paris, intending to go to art galleries and actually going to the more expensive fool- traps of Montmartre.
-- They were standing on her doorstep, in a blankly expensive and quite unromantic street off Fifth Avenue.
-- This meant the monkey, and to murder monkeys is expensive and rather grim.
-- He had found it impossible to work with monkeys; they were too expensive and too fragile to stand the Vermont winter; but he had contrived a method of using mice infected with pneumococcus and-- "Oh, what's the use of my telling you this, Slim?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And a very expensive one!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iglanced about the room, which had had its sanded floor sanded, nodoubt, in exactly the same manner when the chief waiter was aboy- if he ever was a boy, which appeared improbable; and at theshining tables, where I saw myself reflected, in unruffled depths ofold mahogany; and at the lamps, without a flaw in their trimmingor cleaning; and at the comfortable green curtains, with their purebrass rods, snugly enclosing the boxes; and at the two large coalfires, brightly burning; and at the rows of decanters, burly as ifwith the consciousness of pipes of expensive old port wine below;and both England, and the law, appeared to me to be very difficultindeed to be taken by storm.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were several sets of ladies' dresses in the piece, of sundry expensive materials; silks and satins, poplins and velvets, all of colours which from Bathsheba's style of dress might have been judged to be her favourites.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be better to find favor in my cousin's eyes than to come in contact with that shameless woman, who seems to me to have very expensive tastes.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- White flourwas scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
-- Mrs. Merriwether knew that so expensive agift and a gift of clothing at that was highly improper, but she could think of no way of refusing when Rhett toldher in the most florid language that nothing was too good to deck the bride of one of our brave heroes.
-- Never, never any expensive gift, evenfrom your fianc脙漏.
-- How dared he sit there on that fine horse, in shining boots and handsome white linensuit so sleek and well fed, smoking an expensive cigar, when Ashley and all the other boys were fighting the Yankees,barefooted, sweltering in the heat, hungry, their bellies rotten with disease?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.
-- I had begun to be always decorating the chambers in some quite unnecessary and inappropriate way or other, and very expensive those wrestles with Barnard proved to be.
-- It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.
-- I detested the chambers beyond expression at that period of repentance, and could not endure the sight of the Avenger's livery; which had a more expensive and a less remunerative appearance then than at any other time in the four-and-twenty hours.
-- I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and expensive wars; 'that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbours, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings.'
-- I had no occasion of bribing, flattering, or pimping, to procure the favour of any great man, or of his minion; I wanted no fence against fraud or oppression: here was nei-ther physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune; no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, house-breakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops, bullies, drunkards, stroll-ing whores, or poxes; no ranting, lewd, expensive wives; no stupid, proud pedants; no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions; no scoundrels raised from the dust upon the merit of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues; no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing-masters.
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