stupidity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 愚蠢，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You may jeer at our stupidity and at our inexperience in business matters; you have done all you could already to make us look ridiculous; but do not dare to call us dishon-est.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thy luck and the stupidity of thy buffaloes have helped thee to this kill.
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：
-- 'Honoured sir, honoured sir,' cried Marmeladov recov-ering himself 'Oh, sir, perhaps all this seems a laughing matter to you, as it does to others, and perhaps I am only worrying you with the stupidity of all the trivial details of my home life, but it is not a laughing matter to me.
-- Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist!They don't recognise that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal soci-ety, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organise all human-ity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process!That's why they instinctively dis-like history, 'nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it,' and they explain it all as stupidity!That's why they so dislike the living process of life; they don't want a living soul!The living soul demands life, the soul won't obey the rules of mechan-ics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!
-- And imagine what I did then!To what a pitch of stupidity a man can be brought by frenzy!Never undertake anything in a frenzy, Rodion Romanovitch.
-- Look into it more carefully and understand it!I too wanted to do good to men and would have done hundreds, thousands of good deeds to make up for that one piece of stupidity, not stupidity even, simply clumsiness, for the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now that it has failed芒聙娄.
-- By that stupidity I only wanted to put myself into an independent position, to take the first step, to obtain means, and then everything would have been smoothed over by benefits immeasurable in com-parison芒聙娄.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an orangoutang, and as such, had neither the ferocity of the gorilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But be it sweetness or be it stupidity in her quickness of friendship, or dulness of feeling there was one person, I think, who must have felt it: Miss Fairfax herself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was reported to the Governor that something like a mutiny occurred, and in answer came a document ordering that the two chief culprits, Vasilieff and the tramp Don'tremember (an application given to some tramps and jail birds who, to conceal the identity, with characteristic ingenuity and stupidity make that answer to all questions relating to their names), be given thirty lashes each.
-- He also came across a vagabond, and a woman, whose stupidity and apparent cruelty were repulsive, but he failed to find in them that criminal type spoken of by the Italian school.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Hm!--his stupidity might perhaps be contagious."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So she danced through the night of Ashley's wedding in a daze and said things mechanically and smiled andirrelevantly wondered at the stupidity of people who thought her a happy bride and could not see that her heart wasbroken.
-- He talked on about the thievery of the commissary department which every month increased itsdemands, the knavish stupidity of Jefferson Davis and the blackguardery of the Irish who were being enticed into theYankee army by bounty money.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her heart was arrested with fury at the mindlessness and the bestial stupidity of this struggle, her wrists were badly scored by the claws of the beast, a heavy cruelty welled up in her.
-- There was something of the stupidity and the unenlightened self-esteem of a horse in it.
-- A certain blunt, blind stupidity in him palled on her soul, limiting her.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps stupidity is murdered; sentimental stupidity,' sneered the artist.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the af-ternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in gen-eral, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much; and was in a fair way of being reduced, for life, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill usage he had received.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who ac-cepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
-- Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not remember that I had, in all that time, one thought that so much as tended either to looking upwards towards God, or inwards towards a reflection upon my own ways; but a certain stupidity of soul, without desire of good, or conscience of evil, had entirely overwhelmed me; and I was all that the most hardened, unthinking, wicked creature among our common sailors can be supposed to be; not hav-ing the least sense, either of the fear of God in danger, or of thankfulness to God in deliverance.
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