prosperous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 繁荣的， 兴旺的， 茂盛的， 顺利的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offen-sive.
-- Her husband's step was strong and prosperous among them; her father's firm and equal.
-- 'I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the nearer they got to the springs the oftener they met sick people; and their appearance seemed more pitiable than ever among the everyday conditions of prosperous German life.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was such a genial and sympathetic salesman; he gave them cigars and told G. U. stories and explained what prosperous doctors they were all going to be.
-- He hinted a desire to know whether Martin "drank," how prosperous he was, and how he could possibly have come all this way from the urbanities of Winnemac.
-- Once or twice he lost his temper with jovial villagers who bountifully explained to him that he was less aged than he might have been; once or twice he drank too much whisky at poker parties in the back room of the Co- operative Store; but he was known as reliable, skillful, and honest--and on the whole he was rather less distinguished than Alec Ingleblad the barber, less prosperous than Nils Krag the carpenter, and less interesting to his neighbors than the Finnish garageman.
-- She was meaty with advice, being the daughter of a prosperous person, none other than Mr. S. A. Peaseley, the manufacturer of the Daisy Manure Spreader.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A prosperous voyage out, a thriving career abroad, and a happyreturn home!'
-- 'Well,' returned Mr. Waterbrook, pursing up his mouth, andplaying with his watch-chain, in a comfortable, prosperous sort ofway.
-- 'However,' said my aunt, 'I don't want to put two young creaturesout of conceit with themselves, or to make them unhappy; so,though it is a girl and boy attachment, and girl and boyattachments very often- mind!I don't say always!come to nothing,still we'll be serious about it, and hope for a prosperous issue oneof these days.
-- 'A prosperous one?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not look upon myself as either prosperous or indulged.
-- It is very difficult for the prosperous to behumble.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hale vermicelli manufacturer, sixty-two years of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous tradesman, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it did you good to look at him; the man with something boyish in his smile, had suddenly sunk into his dotage, and had become a feeble, vacillating septuagenarian.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not turn the men loose in the rich storehousesof that prosperous state?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.
-- He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself, for he referred to his having been told by Mr. Jaggers that I was not designed for any profession, and that I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with the average of young men in prosperous circumstances.
-- It was with considerable difficulty that I won him over to the assumption of a dress more like a prosperous farmer's; and we arranged that he should cut his hair close, and wear a little powder.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this voyage, which was very prosperous for the most part.
-- We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and win-tered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't this a prosperous nation?
-- Girl number twenty, isn't this a prosperous nation, and a'n't you in a thriving state?'
-- I thought I couldn't know whether it was a prosperous nation or not, and whether I was in a thriving state or not, unless I knew who had got the money, and whether any of it was mine.
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