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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harry's voyages were prosperous from the first, and a few years after Robert was born, he found himself possessed of a considerable fortune.
-- Mary thought only of her brother, and indulged in dreams of a prosperous future for him.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A short walk brought us to it, a bleak moorland house, once the farm of some grazier in the old prosperous days, but now put into repair and turned into a modern dwelling.
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：
-- They would grow old insensibly; they would see their son and daughter come to years of reason, marry in due course the one a pretty girl, future mother of healthy children; the other a handsome, manly fellow, obviously a soldier; and at last, prosperous in their dignified retirement, beloved by their descendants, after a happy, not unuseful life, in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave.
-- Rich merchants, sending their wares to the distant Indies, had lived in them calm and prosperous lives, and in their decent decay they kept still an aroma of their splendid past.
-- He looked more than ever like a prosperous bagman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good night, and Heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At times she stood aside so as not to intercept the low fire-light, and, watching him when it fell upon his sleeping face, wondered did he look now at all as he had looked when he was prosperous and happy; as he had so touched her by imagining that he might look once more in that awful time.
-- We two agreed, that, after what you had undergone, after your distress of mind, and after your illness, it would be a pleasant surprise if we could so far keep quiet as to get things perfectly arranged without your knowledge, and then come and say that all the affairs were smooth, that everything was right, that the business stood in greater want of you than ever it did, and that a new and prosperous career was opened before you and me as partners.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was handsomer than ever and greatly improved, she thought, but now that the flush of pleasure at meeting her was over, he looked tired and spiritless not sick, nor exactly unhappy, but older and graver than a year or two of prosperous life should have made him.
-- He says he feels as if he 'could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for bal-last'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present condi-tions with others that are worse, Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felic-ity by their experience - I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desola-tion, should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led, in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.
-- Had I used half as much pru-dence to have looked into my own interest, and have made a judgment of what I ought to have done and not to have done, I had certainly never gone away from so prosperous an undertaking, leaving all the probable views of a thriving circumstance, and gone upon a voyage to sea, attended with all its common hazards, to say nothing of the reasons I had to expect particular misfortunes to myself.
-- I had no more sense of God or His judgments - much less of the present affliction of my circumstances being from His hand - than if I had been in the most prosperous condition of life.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The large plates of window glass, now so common, were then rapidly coming into use, and gave to the ground floor offices a distinguished and prosperous look.
-- He knew that Drouet was only a travelling salesman--and not one of many years at that--but the firm of Bartlett, Caryoe & Company was a large and prosperous house, and Drouet stood well.
-- It was a street where many of the more prosperous residents of the West Side lived, and Hurstwood could not help feeling nervous over the publicity of it.
-- It was filled for him with observations and mental comments concerning the actual guests of the hotel, who passed in and out, and those more prosperous pedestrians whose good fortune showed in their clothes and spirits as they passed along Broadway, outside.
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