merry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 欢乐的， 愉快的，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had a merry game, not made the less merry by the Doctor'smistakes, of which he committed an innumerable quantity, in spiteof the watchfulness of the butterflies, and to their greataggravation.
-- We made merry in the little parlour, where the Book of Martyrs,unthumbed since my time, was laid out upon the desk as of old,and where I now turned over its terrific pictures, remembering theold sensations they had awakened, but not feeling them.
-- He told us a merry adventure of his own, as a relief to that, with asmuch gaiety as if the narrative were as fresh to him as it was to us-and little Em'ly laughed until the boat rang with the musicalsounds, and we all laughed (Steerforth too), in irresistiblesympathy with what was so pleasant and light-hearted.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet was very ready to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and obliging.
-- I would much rather have been merry than wise.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some merry men were whistling and singing by the corn-exchange.
-- Not a single damn allowed; no, not a bare poor one, even at the most cheerful moment when all were blindest, though the good old word of sin thrown in here and there at such times is a great relief to a merry soul."
-- "We ought to feel full o' thanksgiving that he's not a player of ba'dy songs instead of these merry tunes; for 'twould have been just as easy for God to have made the shepherd a loose low man a man of iniquity, so to speak it as what he is.
-- He saw no absurd sides to the follies of life, and thus, though not quite companionable in the eyes of merry men and scoffers, and those to whom all things show life as a jest, he was not intolerable to the earnest and those acquainted with grief.
-- The sun went down in an ochreous mist; but they sat, and talked on, and grew as merry as the gods in Homer's heaven.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three or four lackeys were making merry over the festal appearance of the vehicle.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces anddeep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue coats and mustard-coloredbreeches, they were as much alike as two bolls of cotton.
-- Their clever remarks sent her into merry peals of laughter and,inspired by the thought that she considered them a remarkable pair, they fairly outdid themselves.
-- Behind them streamed the merry cavalcade, girls cool in flowered cotton dresses, withlight shawls, bonnets and mitts to protect their skins and little parasols held over their heads; elderly ladies placid andsmiling amid the laughter and carriage-to-carriage calls and jokes; convalescents from the hospitals wedged in betweenstout chaperons and slender girls who made great fuss and to-do over them; officers on horseback idling at snail's pacebeside the carriages wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols bobbing, fans swishing, negroessinging.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans was delighted as he sat on the horse, drew him-self up, squared his elbows, turned out his toes, cracked his whip, and rode merrily off, one minute whistling a merry tune, and another singing, 'No care and no sorrow, A fig for the morrow!
-- As he came to the next village, he saw a scissor-grinder with his wheel, working and singing, 'O'er hill and o'er dale So happy I roam, Work light and live well, All the world is my home; Then who so blythe, so merry as I?'
-- On the other side of the lake stood a fine illuminated castle, from which came the merry music of horns and trumpets.
-- And now at last the 59young wrens were satisfied, and sat down together and ate and drank, and made merry till quite late into the night.
-- 'Well, here you are again,' said the mouse, 'no doubt you have had a merry day.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by put-ting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be con-fessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He's a merry fellow, too,' said Mr Pancks, admiring him as if he were a mechanical toy.
-- Mr Blandois, taking him by both shoulders again, rolled him about a little in his former merry way, then drew his arm through his own, and invited him to come off and drink a bottle of wine like a dear deep old dog as he was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Merry Christmas, Marmee!Many of them!Thank you for our books.
-- 'Merry Christmas, little daughters!I'm glad you began at once, and hope you will keep on.
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