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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We must find some other uninhabited island," said Glenarvan, who could not help smiling at the delicacy of McNabbs.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I certainly wrote to him once or twice to acknowledge his delicacy and his generosity.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what delicacy and tenderness they showed!
-- 'It only remains for me, then, to thank Nastasia Phili-povna for the great delicacy with which she has treated me,' said Gania, as pale as death, and with quivering lips.
-- According to my calculations, the sum spent on me was very considerably under ten thousand roubles, but I decided on that sum, and you must admit that in paying a debt I could not offer Mr. Burdovsky more, however kindly disposed I might be towards him; delicacy forbids it; I should seem to be offering him charity instead of rightful payment.
-- 'Yes, it shows delicacy and intelligence on your part.'
-- He confides in the delicacy of your feelings, and in your friendship for him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not through delicacy reject the better man, and take the worst out of respect for his lineage, because he is of more royal blood.'
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：
-- Duncan, still lingering, as if refusing to comply, Cora said, with a calm smile: 'You hear, Heyward, and delicacy at least should urge you to retire.
-- Her arms had fallen lengthwise before her, the fingers moving in slight convulsions; her head dropped upon her bosom, and her whole person seemed suspended against the tree, looking like some beautiful emblem of the wound-ed delicacy of her sex, devoid of animation and yet keenly conscious.
-- After which, he spoke of the expedition in which he was himself engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which they were so re-nowned.
-- When the excitement had a little abated, the old men disposed themselves seriously to consider that which it be-came the honor and safety of their tribe to perform, under circumstances of so much delicacy and embarrassment.
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：
-- He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 23Mr Richard Swiveller wending homeward from the Wilderness (for such was the appropriate name of Quilp's choice retreat), after a sinuous and corkscrew fashion, with many checks and stumbles; after stopping suddenly and staring about him, then as suddenly running forward for a few paces, and as suddenly halting again and shaking his head; doing everything with a jerk and nothing by premeditation; Mr Richard Swiveller wending his way homeward after this fashion, which is considered by evil-minded men to be symbolical of intoxication, and is not held by such persons to denote that state of deep wisdom and reflection in which the actor knows himself to be, began to think that possibly he had misplaced his confidence and that the dwarf might not be precisely the sort of person to whom to entrust a secret of such delicacy and importance.
-- But as this direction relieved them from any shadow of delicacy or uneasiness, they made a hearty meal and enjoyed it to the utmost.
-- 'Think again, Sir,' said Brass; 'it's my duty, Sir, in the position in which I stand, and as an honourable member of the legal profession the first profession in this country, Sir, or in any other country, or in any of the planets that shine above us at night and are supposed to be inhabited it's my duty, Sir, as an honourable member of that profession, not to put to you a leading question in a matter of this delicacy and importance.
-- 'I saw one a stout pencil-case of respectable appearance but as he was in company with an elderly penknife, and a young toothpick with whom he was in earnest conversation, I felt a delicacy in speaking to him.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- Mr. Collins received and returned these felici-tations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the re-fusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne was to have the best place by the fire, was to be tempted to eat by every delicacy in the house, and to be amused by the relation of all the news of the day.
-- But the correctness of his eye, and the delicacy of his taste, proved to be beyond his politeness.
-- The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more; and it was altogether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.
-- This would not, in itself, have been sufficient for the delicacy of Miss Dashwood; but it was inforced with so much real politeness by Mr. Palmer himself, as, joined to the very great amendment of his manners towards them since her sister had been known to be unhappy, induced her to accept it with pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a softness in the air which speaks with an infinite delicacy of feeling to the flesh as well as to the soul.
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