picturesque是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 似画的, 生动的，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：
-- From their elevated position they could see over Lake Taupo, which stretched toward the west in its setting of picturesque mountains.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the finest of all possible Whit Mondays, and down the village street stood a row of nearly a dozen booths, a shooting gallery, and on the grass by the forge were three yellow and chocolate waggons and some picturesque strangers of both sexes putting up a cocoanut shy.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * The hunting-shirt is a picturesque smock-frock, being shorter, and ornamented with fringes and tassels.
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：
-- And I think that was the vision that had remained with him always, dazzling his eyes so that he could not see the truth; and notwithstanding the brutality of fact, he continued to see with the eyes of the spirit an Italy of romantic brigands and picturesque ruins.
-- I discovered that in Paris he had been painting just the same stale, obviously picturesque things that he had painted for years in Rome.
-- I thought of those cold scenes of his, with their picturesque peasants and cypresses and olive-trees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cavern was a picturesque mixture of all the styles of Byzantine, Roman, or Gothic architecture ever produced by the hand of man.
-- Beyond, towards the north, the forest border was prolonged for a space of nearly two miles; then the trees became scarcer, and beyond that again the picturesque heights described a nearly straight line, which ran north and south.
-- Between the place occupied by the colonists and the other side of the immense bay, the shore was composed, first, of a tract of low land, bordered in the background by trees; then the shore became more irregular, projecting sharp points into the sea, and finally ended in the black rocks which, accumulated in picturesque disorder, formed Claw Cape.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this moment there opened before us a large grotto dug in a picturesque heap of rocks and carpeted with all the thick warp of the submarine flora.
-- It was on the coast of Tehama, for there not only did this display of zoophytes flourish beneath the level of the sea, but they also formed picturesque interlacings which unfolded themselves about sixty feet above the surface, more capricious but less highly coloured than those whose freshness was kept up by the vital power of the waters.
-- Before us lay some picturesque ruins, which betrayed the hand of man and not that of the Creator.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seriously protested that the bow of Blandois was perfect, that the address of Blandois was irresistible, and that the picturesque ease of Blandois would be cheaply purchased (if it were not a gift, and unpurchasable) for a hundred thousand francs.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with hon-eysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
-- 'Beth and I are going over to Kitty Bryant's to get more flowers for tomorrow,' added Amy, tying a picturesque hat over her picturesque curls, and enjoying the effect as much as anybody.
-- It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes.
-- They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky over-head, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the book-binder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both old and new that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique vases.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing farther to ask.
-- It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
-- Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.
-- I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles.
-- She sat in silence almost all the way, wrapt in her own meditations, and scarcely ever voluntarily speaking, except when any object of picturesque beauty within their view drew from her an exclamation of delight exclusively addressed to her sister.
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