refine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 精炼, 提纯; 使文雅，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：
-- I had ample leisure to refine upon my uneasiness; for Steerforthwas at Oxford, as he wrote to me, and when I was not at theCommons, I was very much alone.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade. You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
-- Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps my master might refine a little in these specula-tions, which he had drawn from what he observed himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudi-ments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.
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