simplicity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 简单， 简易； 朴素； 直率， 单纯，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible.
-- "No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it.
-- She knew what it meant, and the price at which such simplicity was obtained.
-- He liked in Katavasov the clearness and simplicity of his conception of life.
-- Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In unbelievable simplicity he considered that, as his quarrel with Silva was not personal, he could still summon him, and this time he was justified.
-- There was a simplicity in Martin, but it cannot be said that he did not lick his lips when Holabird mooned at the chauffeur.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not have been called pretty, but her blue eyes were so clear, and when they lighted up, there was such a kind-liness and simplicity in her expression that one could not help being attracted.
-- 'You are certainly quite right about it,' Porfiry began gaily, looking with extraordinary simplicity at Raskol-nikov (which startled him and instantly put him on his guard); 'certainly quite right in laughing so wittily at our legal forms, he-he!Some of these elaborate psychological 478 Crime and Punishmentmethods are exceedingly ridiculous and perhaps useless, if one adheres too closely to the forms.
-- 'Wait, that's not all,' Pyotr Petrovitch detained her, smil-ing at her simplicity and ignorance of good manners, 'and you know me little, my dear Sofya Semyonovna, if you sup-pose I would have ventured to trouble a person like you for a matter of so little consequence affecting myself only.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doctor Strong regarded him with a puzzled anddoubting look, which almost immediately subsided into a smilethat gave me great encouragement, for it was full of amiability andsweetness, and there was a simplicity in it, and indeed in his wholemanner, when the studious, pondering frost upon it was gotthrough, very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me.
-- As the Doctor turned his kind face, with itssmile of simplicity and gentleness, towards her, she drooped herhead more.
-- So did I. Traddlesthanked us both, by saying, with a simplicity and honesty I hadsense enough to be quite charmed with, 'I am very much obliged toyou indeed.
-- He saw, I suppose, that I could not help smiling at the simplicity ofthis reply; and added, with a smile upon his own ingenuousface'Not, of course, but that my Sophy- pretty name, Copperfield, Ialways think?'
-- Icould not see him for the tears which his earnestness and goodness,so adorned by, and so adorning, the perfect simplicity of hismanner, brought into my eyes.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simplicity and cheer-fulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
-- Emma was in the humour to value simplicity and mod-esty to the utmost; and all that was amiable, all that ought to be attaching, seemed on Harriet's side, not her own.
-- Was it impossible? No. Harriet undoubtedly was greatly his inferior in understanding; but he had been very much struck with the loveliness of her face and the warm simplicity of her manner; and all the probabilities of circumstance and connexion were in her favour. For Har-riet, it would be advantageous and delightful indeed.
-- She looked on with some amusement. Miss Bates's gratitude for Mrs. Elton's attentions to Jane was in the first style of guileless simplicity and warmth.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vast porches at the sides, lofty enough to admit a waggon laden to its highest with corn in the sheaf, were spanned by heavy-pointed arches of stone, broadly and boldly cut, whose very simplicity was the origin of a grandeur not apparent in erections where more ornament has been attempted.
-- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole were facts now bitterly remembered.
-- There was something so abnormal and startling in the childlike pain and simplicity of this appeal from a woman of Bathsheba's calibre and independence, that Troy, loosening her tightly clasped arms from his neck, looked at her in bewilderment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like Aunt Pitty, Melanie had the face of asheltered child who had never known anything but simplicity and kindness, truth and love, a child who had neverlooked upon harshness or evil and would not recognize them if she saw them.
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