needless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不需要的，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：
-- Glenarvan was aware that by this mode of procedure, he and his companions would spare themselves needless humiliation.
-- It is needless to say that their preparations were made within the inclosure, and that they were unseen by the savages.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Needless to say, the idiot did not become intelligent, but it is alleged that he grew into some-thing more or less resembling a man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She put her needless candle in the shadow at a distance, crept up to his bed, and put her lips to his; then, leaned over him, and looked at him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Withrespect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frailcanoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered thatimportant business point; and would beg to propose my notes-of-hand- drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amountsrespectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying tosuch securities- at eighteen, twenty-four and thirty months.
-- The remaining toasts were DOCTOR MELL;MRS. MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgmentsfrom the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated onchairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene); MRS.RIDGER BEGS (late Miss Micawber); MRS. MELL; WILKINSMICAWBER, ESQUIRE, JUNIOR (who convulsed the assembly byhumorously remarking that he found himself unable to returnthanks in a speech, but would do so, with their permission, in asong); MRS. MICAWBER'S FAMILY (well known, it is needless toremark, in the mothercountry), etc., etc., etc.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gen-tlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.'
-- Think, then, what I must have endured 540 Emmain hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vul-garity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that day Bathsheba and Liddy lived in the attic in a state of barricade; a precaution which proved to be needless as against Troy, for he did not appear in the neighbourhood or trouble them at all.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say we shall be often together, and I should like to banish any needless restraint between us.
-- We went down on the next day but one, and we found her in the room where I had first beheld her, and it is needless to add that there was no change in Satis House.
-- It was a needless question, for a new desolation in the desolate house had told me so.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this way of reasoning, the author drew several moral applications, useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat.
-- If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geomet-rical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.
-- It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with griev-ous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To relieve you from needless apprehension and as this confidence regarding your brother, which I prize I am sure above all possible things, has been established between us I obey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, of course, he gives a better account of himself than of his friend; it is needless to ask.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a decided propensity for bullying: derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the exercise of petty cruelty; and, consequently, was (it is needless to say) a coward.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance mere-ly to show off before the ladies.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as it was, such a notion had scarcely ever entered her head, except by Mrs. Jennings's suggestion; and she could not help believing herself the nicest observer of the two; she watched his eyes, while Mrs. Jennings thought only of his behaviour; and while his looks of anxious solicitude on Marianne's feeling, in her head and throat, the beginning of a heavy cold, because unexpressed by words, entirely escaped the latter lady's observation; SHE could discover in them the quick feelings, and needless alarm of a lover.
-- It would be needless to say, that the gentlemen advanced in the good opinion of each other, as they advanced in each other's acquaintance, for it could not be otherwise.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She looked as if she thought he had been contracting some needless expense.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though Providence has lent to those who inhabit the woods eyes that would be needless to men in the settlements, where there are inventions to assist the sight, yet no human organs can see all the dangers which at this moment circumvent us.
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