refinement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 精炼, 改进, 改善, 优雅高贵的举止，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：
-- In England, in the midst of civilized countries, the new comer acquaints his host whence he comes and whither he is going; but here, by a refinement of delicacy, Michael and Sandy Patterson thought it a duty to make themselves known to the strangers who were about to receive their hospitality.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is the HEART which is the best teacher of refinement and dignity, not the dancing-master,' said her mother, sen-tentiously, and departed upstairs to her own room, not so much as glancing at Aglaya.
-- He doesn't see what refinement of egotism it is on his own part and at the same time, what ox-like coarseness!
-- Perhaps what most appealed to the prince's impressionability was the refinement of the old man's courtesy towards him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw that the complex conditions of the life they led made the coarse proofs of his wife's guilt, required by the law, out of the question; he saw that a certain refinement in that life would not admit of such proofs being brought forward, even if he had them, and that to bring forward such proofs would damage him in the public estimation more than it would her.
-- She enjoyed that form of communication, which gave opportunity for a refinement and air of mystery not afforded by their personal interviews.
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：
-- The Huron explained the meaning of David to his fellows, who, in their turn, listened to the project with that sort of satisfaction that their untamed spirits might be expected to find in such a refinement in cruelty.
-- It was happy for Uncas and the scout, and even David, that they were all beyond the reach of his arm at such a mo-ment; for, assuredly, no refinement in cruelty would then have deferred their deaths, in opposition to the promptings of the fierce temper that nearly choked him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One should be sorry to see greater pride or refinement in the teacher of a school, Harriet.
-- She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judg-ment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a certain animal form of refinement in his nature; and however pleasant a strange condition might be whilst privations were easily warded off, it was disadvantageously coarse when money was short.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No one but a gentleman of refinement and thoughtfulness would ever have thought how it broke my heart to I'll send my gold chain instead.
-- And she knew it had not been Captain Butler's refinement that had promptedso gallant a gesture.
-- Since the return of her wedding ring, Melanie had felt that Rhett was a gentleman of rare refinement and delicacyand she was shocked at this remark.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whoever expects refinement in me will be disappointed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apart from such a habit standing in the way of that graceful equanimity of surface which is so expressive of good breeding, it hardly seems compatible with refinement of mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My lady,' as her friends called her, sincerely desired to be a genuine lady, and was so at heart, but had yet to learn that money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor had not needed this to be assured of the injustice to which her sister was often led in her opinion of others, by the irritable refinement of her own mind, and the too great importance placed by her on the delicacies of a strong sensibility, and the graces of a polished manner.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a pretty woman of any refinement of feeling whatsoever he found his greatest incentive.
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