generosity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 慷慨， 宽宏大量，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, sir, if business imposes its restraints and its silences and impediments, Mr. Darnay as a young gentleman of generosity knows how to make allowance for that circumstance.
-- Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had only to recall his brother's wife, to remember how that sweet, delightful Varya sought, at every convenient opportunity, to remind him that she remembered his generosity and appreciated it, to grasp the impossibility of taking back his gift.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fix," he stammered, "even should what you say be true if my master is really the robber you are seeking for which I deny I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him not for all the gold in the world.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This generosity had the effect of extinguishing Martin's desire to do any research whatever.
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：
-- Though Katerina Ivanovna tried to appear to be disdain-fully unaware of it, she raised her voice and began at once speaking with conviction of Sonia's undoubted ability to assist her, of 'her gentleness, patience, devotion, generosity and good education,' tapping Sonia on the cheek and kiss-ing her warmly twice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Theonly subject, she informed me, on which he ever showed a violenttemper or swore an oath, was this generosity of his; and if it wereever referred to, by any one of them, he struck the table a heavyblow with his right hand (had split it on one such occasion), andswore a dreadful oath that he would be 'Gormed' if he didn't cutand run for good, if it was ever mentioned again.
-- I am sure I can never feel thankful enoughfor the generosity with which he has protected me, so muchyounger and lower in the school than himself.'
-- At the same time, I must say that the generosity of herchampionship of poor harmless Mr. Dick, not only inspired myyoung breast with some selfish hope for myself, but warmed itunselfishly towards her.
-- In short, his house (or rather hisboat, for he lives in one, on dry land) is full of people who areobjects of his generosity and kindness.
-- 'There is greatneed,' she answered, in the same way, 'that I should open mywhole heart before the soul of generosity and truth, whom, year byyear, and day by day, I have loved and venerated, more and more,as Heaven knows!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt for Harriet, with pain and with contrition; but no flight of generosity run mad, opposing all that could be probable or reasonable, entered her brain.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.
-- Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman's most marked characteristic."
-- Believe me, your generosity is too great.
-- But Bathsheba, dear mistress, this I beg you to consider that, both to keep yourself well honoured among the workfolk, and in common generosity to an honourable man who loves you as well as I, you should be more discreet in your bearing towards this soldier."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Possibly it was the careless generosity with which Father Goriot allowed himself to be overreached at this period of his life (they called him Monsieur Goriot very respectfully then) that gave Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the present moment, I believe it to have been referable to some pure fire of generosity and disinterestedness in my love for her, that I could not endure the thought of her stooping to that hound.
-- Therefore, I had sent him the unopened pocket-book by Herbert, to hold in his own keeping, and I felt a kind of satisfaction--whether it was a false kind or a true, I hardly know--in not having profited by his generosity since his revelation of himself.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He replied, 'that, by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two of his officers; that he knew this could not be done without my consent and assis- 31tance; and he had so good an opinion of my generosity and justice, as to trust their persons in my hands; that whatever they took from me, should be returned when I left the coun-try, or paid for at the rate which I would set upon them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And what I was going to tell you, sir,' said Little Dorrit, trembling in all her little figure and in her voice, 'is, that I am not to know whose generosity released him am never to ask, and am never to be told, and am never to thank that gentleman with all my grateful heart!'
-- 'You are generosity itself,' said Mrs Merdle in return, smiling her best smile; 'let us hope so.
-- One weak girl!When I tried to conquer my misplaced love, and to be generous to the man who was more fortunate than I, though he should never know it or repay me with a gracious word, in whom had I watched patience, self-denial, self-subdual, charitable construction, the noblest generosity of the affections?
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