shame是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 羞耻， 耻辱； 可耻的人(或事物) v. 使羞愧，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Emma, recovering from her state of shame and feeling divided between wonder and amusement.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon parting from Gabriel, the lonely and reserved man returned to his house to breakfast feeling twinges of shame and regret at having so far exposed his mood by those fevered questions to a stranger.
-- Shame upon him shame!"
-- He had come to apologize and beg forgiveness of Bathsheba with something like a sense of shame at his violence, having but just now learnt that she had returned only from a visit to Liddy, as he supposed, the Bath escapade being quite unknown to him.
-- Moreover, it was not at all unlikely that his wife would fail at her farming, if she had not already done so; and he would then become liable for her maintenance: and what a life such a future of poverty with her would be, the spectre of Fanny constantly between them, harrowing his temper and embittering her words!Thus, for reasons touching on distaste, regret, and shame commingled, he put off his return from day to day, and would have decided to put it off altogether if he could have found anywhere else the ready-made establishment which existed for him there.
-- Beyond a politic wish to remain unknown, there suddenly arose in him now a sense of shame at the possibility that his attractive young wife, who already despised him, should despise him more by discovering him in so mean a condition after so long a time.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was by turns all the most mysterious brood of vice and shame and misery; yet, however vile his life might be, the feeling of repulsion which he aroused in others was not so strong that he must be banished from their society--he paid his way.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen never fully realized that it was only a veneer, for Scarlett alwaysshowed her best face to her mother, concealing her escapades, curbing her temper and appearing as sweet-natured asshe could in Ellen's presence, for her mother could shame her to tears with a reproachful glance.
-- An odd look came over Charles' face, incredulity and shame struggling with love.
-- Some of them were on crutches and how proud were the girls whosolicitously slowed their steps to their escorts' hopping pace!There was one gaudy splash of color among the uniformsthat put the girls' bright finery to shame and stood out in the crowd like a tropical bird a Louisiana Zouave, withbaggy blue and white striped pants, cream gaiters and tight little red jacket, a dark, grinning little monkey of a man,with his arm in a black silk sling.
-- She looked up at him imploringly, her face crimson with the shame of their last meeting, and met two of theblackest eyes she had ever seen, dancing in merciless merriment.
-- Triumph was written on her face and no trace of shame for her unfilial treatment of Gerald.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "They fell into deeper shame and degradation--if there can be deeper--and ruin."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a shame to take my horse, and give me only a dry cow!If I kill her, what will she be good for?
-- Then Gretel called out to her master: 'If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away from the fire, but it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest.'
-- She touched it with her fin-ger, and said: 'Ah!how good fowls are!It certainly is a sin and a shame that they are not eaten at the right time!'
-- 'Ah, be silent,' said the host-ess, 'so many prying persons have already lost their lives, it would be a pity and a shame if such beautiful eyes as these should never see the daylight again.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell a weeping with shame and grief.
-- I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had nev-er seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, 'that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their princi-pals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.'
-- 'What you have told me,' said my master, 'upon the sub-ject of war, does indeed discover most admirably the effects of that reason you pretend to: however, it is happy that the shame is greater than the danger; and that nature has left you utterly incapable of doing much mischief.
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At last poor father said that he had given no satisfaction again, and never did give any satisfaction now, and that he was a shame and disgrace, and I should have done better without him all along.
-- There was some applause, and some crying of Shame upon the man; but the greater part of the audience were quiet.
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