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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I am grateful for the exception, I don't complain of the rule.'
-- Because you know that nothing can touch you without touching me; that nothing can make you happy or unhappy, but it must make me, who am so grateful to you, the same.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, after a while, they found that he consid-ered them the benefactors, and could not do enough to show how grateful he was for Mrs. March's motherly wel-come, their cheerful society, and the comfort he took in that humble home of theirs.
-- Perhaps it was because she was so grateful for this blessing that a greater was given her.
-- With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain 'Your grateful friend and humble servant, 'JAMES LAURENCE' 'There, Beth, that's an honor to be proud of, I'm sure!
-- 'My good mother used to help me...' 'As you do us...' interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss.
-- President and gentlemen,' he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, 'I wish to propose the ad-mission of a new member one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add im-mensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
-- Hearing this, the captain vowed that they were the grateful parties (meaning himself and mate) and concluded by inviting Stubb down into his cabin to drink a bottle of Bordeaux.
-- How glad and how grateful the relief from this unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of being brought by the lee!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a grateful little dear it is.
-- 'And very grateful indeed, sir, for your goodness to me.'
-- Such was the aspect of out-of-doors affairs, when Mrs. Corney, the matron of the workhouse to which our readers have been already introduced as the birthplace of Oliver Twist, sat herself down before a cheerful fire in her own little room, and glanced, with no small degree of complacency, at a small round table: on which stood a tray of corresponding size, furnished with all necessary materials for the most grateful meal that matrons enjoy.
-- said the matron, leaning her elbow on the table, and looking reflectively at the fire; 'I'm sure we have all on us a great deal to be grateful for!A great deal, if we did but know it.
-- 'To think that my dear good aunt should have been the means of rescuing any one from such sad misery as you have described to us, would be an unspeakable pleasure to me; but to know th at the object of her goodness and compassion was sincerely grateful and attached, in consequence, would delight me, more than you can well imagine.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
-- Bingley was all grateful pleasure, and he readily engaged for taking the earliest op-portunity of waiting on her, after his return from London, whither he was obliged to go the next day for a short time.
-- But Elizabeth had now recollected herself, and making a strong effort for it, was able to assure with tolerable firmness that the prospect of their relationship was highly grateful to her, and that she wished her all imaginable happiness.
-- 'I believe she did and I am sure she could not have be-stowed her kindness on a more grateful object.'
-- Our plain manner of living, our small rooms and few domestics, and the little we see of the world, must make Hunsford ex-tremely dull to a young lady like yourself; but I hope you will believe us grateful for the condescension, and that we have done everything in our power to prevent your spend-ing your time unpleasantly.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, as my jealousy increased, and held some weeks, I was a little more circum-spect, and not so familiar and kind to him as before: in which I was certainly wrong too; the honest, grateful crea-ture having no thought about it but what consisted with the best principles, both as a religious Christian and as a grate-ful friend, as appeared afterwards to my full satisfaction.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then, he is lately dead, Marianne, for I am sure there was such a man once, and his name begins with an F."Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard," though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.
-- Elinor, without observing the varying complexion of her sister, and the animated look which spoke no indifference to the plan, immediately gave a grateful but absolute denial for both, in which she believed herself to be speaking their united inclinations.
-- I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
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