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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What an immense debt he owed to this noble lady and her friends!From Lord Glenarvan, down to the lowest sailor on board, how all had struggled and suffered for him!Harry Grant expressed his gratitude with such simplicity and nobleness, his manly face suffused with pure and sweet emotion, that the whole crew felt amply recompensed for the trials they had undergone.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And do not suppose that I am so candid out of pure simplicity of soul.
-- 'Prince, you are not only simple, but your simplicity is almost past the limit,' said Lebedeff's nephew, with a sar-castic smile.
-- And if I dared to turn your beautiful, ad-mirable simplicity to ridicule, forgive me as you would a little child its mischief.
-- But the Epanchins, one and all, believed that Muishkin, in his simplicity of mind, was quite incapable of realizing that they could be feeling any anxiety on his ac-count, and for this reason they all looked at him with dread and uneasiness.
-- It never struck him that all this refined simplicity and nobility and wit and personal dignity might possibly be no more than an exquisite artistic polish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My lavish habits led his easy nature into expenses that he could not afford, corrupted the simplicity of his life, and disturbed his peace with anxieties and regrets.
-- No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I descended so low, as to desire some English yeoman 254 Gulliver's Travelsof the old stamp might be summoned to appear; once so famous for the simplicity of their manners, diet, and dress; for justice in their dealings; for their true spirit of liberty; for their valour, and love of their country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This airy young Barnacle was quite entertained by his simplicity in supposing for a moment that it was.
-- Gentlemen, he was a most excellent man, a most gentle, tender, and estimable man, with the simplicity of a child; but would he, though unsuited for most other places, do for that place?
-- His retiring character included a great deal that was simple in the best sense, because unpractised and unused; and in his simplicity and modesty, he could only say that he was happy to place himself at Mr Gowan's disposal.
-- He had a patron who in a certain sumptuous way an apologetic way, as if he constantly took an admiring audience to witness that he really could not help being more free with this old fellow than they might have expected, on account of his simplicity and poverty was mightily good to him.
-- He told Mr Rugg that his partner was a man of great simplicity and integrity, and that in all he meant to do, he was guided above all things by a knowledge of his partner's character, and a respect for his feelings.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg was grateful to see that Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate, and who was much flattered by Mr. Ned's assurances that he came especially to see her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was really a whimsical thought, and I reproved - myself often for the simplicity of it: for I presently saw there would be the want of several things necessary to the mak-ing my beer that it would be impossible for me to supply; as, first, casks to preserve it in, which was a thing that, as I have observed already, I could never compass: no, though I spent not only many days, but weeks, nay months, in at-tempting it, but to no purpose.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him perfectly right."
-- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement!and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
-- The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
-- Their gentleness, their genuine attention to other people, and their manly unstudied simplicity is much more accordant with her real disposition, than the liveliness often artificial, and often ill-timed of the other.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ventured Carrie, emboldened by a certain softness in the man's manner and his simplicity of address.
-- There was so much simplicity in her movements that she seemed wholly alone.
-- She was interesting, in a manner, to the occupant of the chair, and the simplicity of her request and attitude took his fancy.
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