delicacy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 精致，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being hardly in a condition to drive home as she had driven to town, Boldwood, with every delicacy of manner and feeling, offered to get her a driver, or to give her a seat in his phaeton, which was more comfortable than her own conveyance.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To his request he knew that they would not fail to respond gladly, and he added to it an appeal to their delicacy by touching the chord of honor that vibrates so loudly in young and high- strung natures.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My at-tention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Charles Hamilton spent his wedding night in an armchair in the corner, not too unhappily, for he understood,or thought he understood, the modesty and delicacy of his bride.
-- Delicacy forbids my putting more concerning him on paper.
-- She the " This was no time for delicacy but it was hard tobring out the words with the ears of hundreds of strange men listening.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt that this delicacy arose out of the consideration that the plan would save Herbert some expense, so I went off to Little Britain and imparted my wish to Mr. Jaggers.
-- He had a woman's delicacy of feature, and was--"as you may see, though you never saw her," said Herbert to me--"exactly like his mother."
-- "In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a--"I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, "A clerk."
-- The delicacy with which Joe dismissed this theme, and the sweet tact and kindness with which Biddy--who with her woman's wit had found me out so soon--had prepared him for it, made a deep impression on my mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I might venture to remark that it is the least in the world deficient in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived, and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance, I should express what it presents to my own view.'
-- Here was one of the fluffy classes pulled up extremely short by my esteemed friend Mr. Bounderby who, as we know, is not possessed of that delicacy which would soften so tight a hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so earnest in the petition, that Clennam felt a delicacy in obtruding himself upon her: the rather, because he could well understand that Maggy's lodging was of the obscurest sort.
-- The mournfulness of his spirits, and the gorgeousness of his appearance, might have made him ridiculous, but that his delicacy made him respectable.
-- An impression of disappointment, occasioned by the discovery that Mr Clennam scarcely possessed that delicacy for which, in the confidence of his nature, he had been inclined to give him credit, began to darken the fatherly mind in connection with that gentleman.
-- If Mr Clennam has sufficient delicacy to perceive the impropriety of any such attempt, I am bound as a responsible gentleman to ha defer to that delicacy on his part.
-- This is understood by your sister, who has already remonstrated with you in my presence; it is understood by your brother; it is understood by ha hum by every one of delicacy and sensitiveness except yourself ha I am sorry to say, except yourself.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the name of all us Limeese, I but desire to express to you, sir sailor, that we have by no means overlooked your delicacy in not substituting present Lima for distant Venice in your corrupt comparison.
-- It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
-- Third: I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.
-- This delicacy is chiefly evinced in the action of sweeping, when in maidenly gentleness the whale with a certain soft slowness moves his immense flukes from side to side upon the surface of the sea; and if he feel but a sailor's whisker, woe to that sailor, whiskers and all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry.
-- You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.
-- In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Long-bourn estate whenever it falls, without any self-reproach.
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