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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm afraid he isn't having such a merry Christmas as we are.'
-- Laurie's bashfulness soon wore off, for Jo's gentlemanly demeanor amused and set him at his ease, and Jo was her merry self again, because her dress was forgotten and no-body lifted their eyebrows at her.
-- They had a merry time over the bonbons and mottoes, and were in the midst of a quiet game of BUZZ, with two or three other young people who had strayed in, when Hannah appeared.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But somehow I grew merry again.
-- Merry Christmas.
-- "'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste.
-- "'Aye, aye, sir,' said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket.
-- Yet habit strange thing!what cannot habit accomplish? Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Lord, Lord!Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff!Lord, Lord!--to think of it; it's as good as a play--as good as a play!'
-- The latter part of this speech, was hailed by a boisterous shout from all the hopeful pupils of the merry old gentleman.
-- When the breakfast was cleared away; the merry old gentlman and the two boys played at a very curious and uncommon game, which was performed in this way.
-- The merry old gentleman, placing a snuff-box in one pocket of his trousers, a note-case in the other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief in his pockets, trotted up and down the room with a stick, in imitation of the manner in which old gentlemen walk about the streets any hour in the day.
-- AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then we were so merry all the way home!we talked and laughed so loud, that anybody might have heard us ten miles off!'
-- My dear, dear Lydia!How merry we shall be together when we meet!'
-- Miss Lydia is going to be mar-ried; and you shall all have a bowl of punch to make merry at her wedding.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This observation of mine put a great many thoughts into me, which made me at first not so easy about my new man Friday as I was be-fore; and I made no doubt but that, if Friday could get back to his own nation again, he would not only forget all his religion but all his obligation to me, and would be forward enough to give his countrymen an account of me, and come back, perhaps with a hundred or two of them, and make a feast upon me, at which he might be as merry as he used to be with those of his enemies when they were taken in war.
-- My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I fre-quently made, how like a king I looked.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extremely merry all day long.
-- CHAPTER 20As the Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the park the next day, at one door, Mrs. Palmer came running in at the other, looking as good humoured and merry as before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Madame Sappho would have called him a pig; a Shakespeare would have said "my merry child"; old, drinking Caryoe thought him a clever, successful businessman.
-- At the same time, she had a fancy for the merry and easy-mannered Drouet, who threw her a pleasant remark now and then, and in other ways extended her the evidence of that regard which he had for all members of the sex.
-- When he walked forth in the short days, the street lamps had a merry twinkle.
-- The author had used the artifice of sending all the merry company for a drive, and now Carrie came in alone.
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