careful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 小心的， 仔细的； 细致的， 精心的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passage of the searching party gives ground,—one is almost tempted to say, excuse,—for a close and careful description of each country and of its inhabitants, step by step.
-- "Well, Tom, be careful how you take it out," said Lord Glenarvan, "for bottles found in the sea often contain precious documents."
-- "Thaouka scents an enemy," he said to himself, going toward the opening, to make careful survey of the plains.
-- He is the captain of the DUNCAN, and must be careful of his life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then, mind what I told you,' said the matron: 'and be careful to say as little as you can, or you'll betray us at once.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
-- He has also BROTHERLY pride, which, with SOME brotherly affection, makes him a very kind and careful guardian of his sister, and you will hear him generally cried up as the most atten-tive and best of brothers.'
-- The vicious propensities the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
-- Send back your answer as fast as you can, and be careful to write explicitly.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the 14th of August to the 26th, incessant rain, so that I could not stir, and was now very careful not to be much wet.
-- As for my face, the colour of it was really not so mulatto-like as one might expect from a man not at all careful of it, and living within nine or ten degrees of the equinox.
-- This was very discouraging, and began to trouble me much, though I cannot say that it did in this case (as it had done some time before) wear off the edge of my desire to the thing; but the longer it seemed to be delayed, the more eager I was for it: in a word, I was not at first so careful to shun the sight of these savages, and avoid being seen by them, as I was now eager to be upon them.
-- I knew I had old sails, or rather pieces of old sails, enough; but as I had had them now six-and-twenty years by me, and had not been very careful to preserve them, not imagining that I should ever have this kind of use for them, I did not doubt but they were all rotten; and, indeed, most of them were so.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If dancing formed the amusement of the night, they were partners for half the time; and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances, were careful to stand together and scarcely spoke a word to any body else.
-- Lucy here looked up; but Elinor was careful in guarding her countenance from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency.
-- From this time the subject was never revived by Elinor, and when entered on by Lucy, who seldom missed an opportunity of introducing it, and was particularly careful to inform her confidante, of her happiness whenever she received a letter from Edward, it was treated by the former with calmness and caution, and dismissed as soon as civility would allow; for she felt such conversations to be an indulgence which Lucy did not deserve, and which were dangerous to herself.
-- Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were of the party; from the former, whom they had not seen before since their arrival in town, as he was careful to avoid the appearance of any attention to his mother-in-law, and therefore never came near her, they received no mark of recognition on their entrance.
-- Their sisters and Mrs. Jennings were invited likewise, and John Dashwood was careful to secure Colonel Brandon, who, always glad to be where the Miss Dashwoods were, received his eager civilities with some surprise, but much more pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One thing you want to be careful about, and that is to start easy.
-- "You want to be careful about that," was all he said.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he was away; I reckon I had hunted the place over as much as a hundred times; well, I was most all the time at it, because it was about the only way to put in the time.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Surely; go ahead, but be careful not to lose your way.
-- "But be careful not to get into mischief again."
-- Give me your hand, dear Father, and be careful not to slip!"
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