grateful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (to， for) 感激的； 感谢的，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：
-- It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the al-monds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next to her preservation of his own last grateful love and blessing, and her overcoming of her sorrow, to devote herself to their dear child, he adjured her, as they would meet in Heaven, to comfort her father.
-- That done, with many added sentences of grateful friendship and warm attachment, all was done.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But let me find, when you enjoy honor and distinction, that you possess a grateful heart.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin was grateful to him for his delicacy and was very glad of his visitor.
-- Levin was grateful to Oblonsky for noticing, with his never-failing tact, that he dreaded conversation about the Shtcherbatskys, and so saying nothing about them.
-- I'm very grateful to you," she said to the young Swede.
-- "I am very grateful for your sympathy, but I must be going," he said, getting up.
-- "I am very grateful to you for your confidence, but..." he said, feeling with confusion and annoyance that what he could decide easily and clearly by himself, he could not discuss before Princess Tverskaya, who to him stood for the incarnation of that brute force which would inevitably control him in the life he led in the eyes of the world, and hinder him from giving way to his feeling of love and forgiveness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geake had one classic annual address in which, winging far above otolaryngology, he evaluated all medicine, and explained to grateful healers like Irving Watters the method of getting suitable fees: "Knowledge is the greatest thing in the medical world but it's no good whatever unless you can sell it, and to do this you must first impress your personality on the people who have the dollars.
-- I learned a lot from Gottlieb and I'm grateful for-- God, Leora, I wish HE hadn't gone wrong!"
-- When the Great Call sounds, Doctor, and it's time for you to face your reward, will you be satisfied by a big Masonic funeral and tributes from Grateful Patients if you have failed to lay up provision for the kiddies, and faithful wife who has shared your tribulations?
-- I'd have to be so dratted grateful for the flowers every day--the days you didn't forget!--and the way you'd sling me off to the movies when I wanted to stay home and snooze--" "Well, by thunder, of all the--" "No, please!You're dear and good, but you're so bossy that I've always got to be whatever YOU want, even if it's lonely.
-- There was at the time, in certain places, a doubt as to how benevolent the United States had been to its Little Brothers--Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua--and the editors and politicians were grateful to Martin for this proof of their sacrifice and tender watchfulness.
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：
-- Here was a girl of pride, character, virtue, of education and breeding superior to his own (he felt that), and this creature would be slavishly grateful all her life for his heroic condescension, and would humble herself in the dust before him, and he would have absolute, unbounded power over her!芒聙娄 Not long before, he had, too, after long reflection and hesitation, made an important change in his career and was now entering on a wider circle of business.
-- 'That's why I am so grateful to you, Rodion Romanovitch, that you have not disdained my hospitality, even in such surroundings,' she added almost aloud.
-- Judge how grateful I must be to Marfa Petrovna for having repeated to Avdotya Romanovna such mysterious and interesting gossip about me.
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 glad to recollect that when the carrier's cart was at the gate,and my mother stood there kissing me, a grateful fondness for herand for the old place I had never turned my back upon before,made me cry.
-- said the Master, looking at another old womanin a large chair by the fire, who was such a bundle of clothes that Ifeel grateful to this hour for not having sat upon her by mistake.
-- In this I was much assisted by Mr. Mell, who had a liking for methat I am grateful to remember.
-- That Peggotty was the best, the truest, the most faithful,most devoted, and most self-denying friend and servant in theworld; who had ever loved me dearly, who had ever loved mymother dearly; who had held my mother's dying head upon herarm, on whose face my mother had imprinted her last grateful kiss.
-- So it was, though in asoftened degree, when I went to my neat room at night; and,turning over the leaves of the crocodile book (which was alwaysthere, upon a little table), remembered with a grateful heart howblest I was in having such a friend as Steerforth, such a friend asPeggotty, and such a substitute for what I had lost as my excellentand generous aunt.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simplicity and cheer-fulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
-- She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engaging not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk and yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.
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