abstract是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 抽象的; n. (书籍、 演说等的) 摘要，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：
-- Before the prince's arrival she had spent some time on the terrace, listening eagerly to the conversation, though the visitors, mostly under the influence of wine, were discuss-ing abstract subjects far beyond her comprehension.
-- Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self.
-- Aglaya loved like a woman, like a human being, not like an abstract spirit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.
-- The government obviously is guided by abstract considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then there's another--this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.
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：
-- Playful wit and abstract arguments fascinate you and that's for all the world like the old Austrian Hof-kriegsrath as far as I can judge of military matters, that is: on paper they'd beaten Napoleon and taken him prisoner, and there in their study they worked it all out in the cleverest fashion, but look you, General Mack surrendered with all his army, he-he-he!I see, I see, Rodion Romanovitch, you are laughing at a civil-ian like me, taking examples out of military history!But I can't help it, it's my weakness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These werefew enough, to be sure; but as we always fell back upon Blood, shehad as wide a field for abstract speculation as her nephew himself.
-- Adifference of opinion had arisen between herself and Mrs. Crupp,on an abstract question (the propriety of chambers being inhabitedby the gentler sex); and my aunt, utterly indifferent to spasms onthe part of Mrs. Crupp, had cut the dispute short, by informing thatlady that she smelt of my brandy, and that she would trouble herto walk out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man made a movement of impatience, but Quilp went on as calmly as if he were discussing some abstract question in which nobody present had the slightest personal interest.
-- Mr Brass had evidently a strong inclination to make an angry reply, but was deterred by prudent or timid considerations, as he only muttered something about aggravation and a vagabond; not associating the terms with any individual, but mentioning them as connected with some abstract ideas which happened to occur to him.
-- In one day afterwards, the Grand Jury found a True Bill against Christopher Nubbles for felony; and in two days from that finding, the aforesaid Christopher Nubbles was called upon to plead Guilty or Not Guilty to an Indictment for that he the said Christopher did feloniously abstract and steal from the dwelling-house and office of one Sampson Brass, gentleman, one Bank Note for Five Pounds issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; in contravention of the Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.
-- She had never taken kindly to the idea of marriage in the abstract as did the majority of women she saw about her.
-- Oak, almost before he had comprehended anything beyond the briefest abstract of the event, hurried out of the room, saddled a horse and rode away.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skovorodnikoff was a materialist, a Darwinist, and considered every manifestation of abstract morality, or, worse still, piety, not only as contemptible and absurd but as an affront to his person.
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：
-- "In the abstract but not in the concrete," said Ursula.
-- "It's all that Lady of Shalott business," he said, in his strong abstract voice.
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：
-- There remains the inexhaustive realm of abstract forms, and creativity with its shifting charac-ter ever determined afresh by its own creatures, and God, upon whose wisdom all forms of order depend.
-- Unnimaginables, and types of order in graves, and realms of abstract forms, and creativity with a shifty character, and God mixed up with forms of order!Why, it's idiotic!'
-- He looked down at her, with darkened, abstract eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The land of Shakespeare, Milton, Bacon, Newton, Watt, the land of a host of past and present abstract philosophers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called to Mr Sparkler to come and take care of it, lest it should perish.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has a small mind, and she resents the abstract which she is unable to grasp.
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