degradation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 降级； 退化； 衰变，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：
-- His feeling for Nina Alexandrovna amounted almost to adoration; she had pardoned so much in silence, and loved him still in spite of the state of degradation into which he had fallen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over and above these trifling penalties, his name was erased and blotted out from the roll of attorneys; which erasure has been always held in these latter times to be a great degradation and reproach, and to imply the commission of some amazing villany as indeed it would seem to be the case, when so many worthless names remain among its better records, unmolested.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These sickening scoundrels had merely intended to keep me back, to fool me with their display of confidence, and presently to fall upon me with a fate more horrible than death, with torture; and after torture the most hideous degradation it is possible to conceive, to send me off a lost soul, a beast, to the rest of their Comus rout.
-- I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale.
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：
-- He would have me,' she continued, her accents sink-ing under a deep consciousness of the degradation of the proposal, 'follow him to the wilderness; go to the habita-tions of the Hurons; to remain there; in short, to become his wife!Speak, then, Alice; child of my affections!sister of my love!And you, too, Major Heyward, aid my weak reason with your counsel.
-- The coun-tenance of Hawkeye was haggard and careworn, and his air dejected, as though he felt the deepest degradation at hav-ing fallen into the power of his enemies.
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：
-- Tell me,' he went on almost in a frenzy, 'how this shame and degradation can exist in you side by side with other, opposite, holy feelings?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this time I was working at Murdstone and Grinby's in the samecommon way, and with the same common companions, and withthe same sense of unmerited degradation as at first.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be mar-ried to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!'
-- Now, as her objection was noth-ing but her very great dislike of Mrs. Elton, of which Mr. Weston must already be perfectly aware, it was not worth bringing forward again: it could not be done without a re-proof to him, which would be giving pain to his wife; and she found herself therefore obliged to consent to an arrange-ment which she would have done a great deal to avoid; an arrangement which would probably expose her even to the degradation of being said to be of Mrs. Elton's party!Every feeling was offended; and the forbearance of her outward submission left a heavy arrear due of secret severity in her reflections on the unmanageable goodwill of Mr. Weston's temper.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole were facts now bitterly remembered.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he thought that I felt deeply the degradation of being obliged to answer a charge of murder, and he endeav- oured to prove to me the futility of pride.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same complaints of the paucity of land, hunger and degradation he heard everywhere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,--I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term.
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：
-- There are many stages of pure degradation to go through: agelong.
-- It was curious too, how his poverty, the degradation of his earlier life, attracted her.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heathcliff bore his degradation pretty well at first, because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and worked or played with him in the fields.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frederick had not (if he might use the expression) Power enough to see in any delicate little attentions and and Testimonials that he might under such circumstances receive, the goodness of human nature, the fine spirit animating the Collegians as a community, and at the same time no degradation to himself, and no depreciation of his claims as a gentleman.
-- Enough, for the present place, that he lay down with wet eyelashes, serene, in a manner majestic, after bestowing his life of degradation as a sort of portion on the devoted child upon whom its miseries had fallen so heavily, and whose love alone had saved him to be even what he was.
-- In the unnatural peace of having gone through the dreaded arrest, and got there, the first change of feeling which the prison most commonly induced, and from which dangerous resting-place so many men had slipped down to the depths of degradation and disgrace by so many ways, he could think of some passages in his life, almost as if he were removed from them into another state of existence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forgetting the weariness of the streets and the degradation of search, he would sometimes prick up his ears.
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