kindness是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 仁慈, 亲切; 好意; 友好行为,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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- You would have wished to tell me something, or in your kindness you would have brought me out some comfort or other, and so an unneces-sary risk would be run.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Excuse my questioning you, but ' 'Oh, my dear sir, I esteem and understand your kindness in putting the question.
-- His estate was sold for the creditors; and the little girls two of them, of seven and eight years of age respectively, were adopted by Totski, who undertook their maintenance and education in the kindness of his heart.
-- And yet I believe these people give them a good breakfast out of pure kindness of heart, and believe that they are doing a good action.
-- 'Here's another alternative for me,' said Nastasia, turn-ing once more to the actress; 'and he does it out of pure kindness of heart.
-- 'I can but thank you,' he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, 'for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of their own, and immediately answer their opponents with abuse, if they do not have recourse to argu-ments of a still more unpleasant nature.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I fancied even then that he had a sneaking kindness for some of these metamorphosed brutes, a vicious sympa-thy with some of their ways, but that he attempted to veil it from me at first.
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:
-- But I knew it was not kindness that prompted the offer.
-- There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Have the kindness to smile, sir, in order that we may not be suspected.
-- I want to do 'em a kindness, and I can't do 'em a kindness unless I know where they are.
-- We do not shun our dying friends; the not having distinctly taken leave of one among them, whom we left in all kindness and affection, will often embitter the whole remainder of a life.
-- Certainly if there were any fault in Mr Codlin's usual deportment, it was that he rather underdid his kindness to those about him, than overdid it.
-- 'We shall never forget it, sir,' rejoined Nell; 'nor ever forget to be grateful to you for your kindness to us.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I am always telling these court officers that I never look upon them without gratitude," continued the lawyer, "because it is due to their kindness that I, you and all of us are not in jail.
-- The kindness and gentleness of such an uncommon perso n so affected Maslova that she gave herself up to her with her whole soul, unconsciously acquired her glance and involuntarily imitated her in everything.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Conseil, more prudent or more steady, did not stumble, and helped me up, saying:"If, sir, you would have the kindness to take wider steps, you would preserve your equilibrium better."
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:
-- Of wild and overweening temper, she could not bear the humiliation of her husband's soft, half-appealing kindness to everybody.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She concluded by thanking him for his kindness in a crude way, then puzzled over the formality of signing her name, and finally decided upon the severe, winding up with a "Very truly," which she subsequently changed to "Sincerely."
-- She was stirred by this thought, angered by that--her own injustice, Hurstwood's, Drouet's, their respective qualities of kindness and favour, the threat of the world outside, in which she had failed once before, the impossibility of this state inside, where the chambers were no longer justly hers, the effect of the argument upon her nerves, all combined to make her a mass of jangling fibres--an anchorless, storm-beaten little craft which could do absolutely nothing but drift.
-- Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The way was just as good as any other to show the kindness of his heart.
-- Having nothing to give him, what do you think my friend did out of the kindness of his heart?
-- I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble."
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