negative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 否定的， 消极的， 阴性的n. 负数； (摄影) 底片，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：
-- "He wanted to know whether we were going to Carmen or Mendoza, and was very much surprised at my negative reply to both questions."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ought to have been 'Yes;' inasmuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tenden-cy that way.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Charged with this commission, Betsy had gone to Anna, and brought him back a negative reply.
-- What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
-- "Honesty is only a negative qualification," he said.
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：
-- The ragged attendant, returning with the tea, could not resist asking him again whether he didn't want anything more, and again receiving a negative reply, finally withdrew.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To set against this negative gain there may have been some positive losses from a certain narrowing of the higher tastes and sensations which it entailed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She loves you--very much so--and is happy to be able to do you the negative good of not binding you to herself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a negative gesture, as much as to say that nothing would force him to set foot on terra firma again.
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：
-- She was consumed in a fierce tension of opposition, like the negative pole of a magnet.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A serious study of the soil was necessary to negative or confirm my hypothesis.
-- CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language.
-- For upwards of three years she reclined in a wheeled chair, looking attentively at those about her and appearing to understand what they said; but the rigid silence she had so long held was evermore enforced upon her, and except that she could move her eyes and faintly express a negative and affirmative with her head, she lived and died a statue.
-- Here was her brother, a weak, proud, tipsy, young old man, shaking from head to foot, talking as indistinctly as if some of the money he plumed himself upon had got into his mouth and couldn't be got out, unable to walk alone in any act of his life, and patronising the sister whom he selfishly loved (he always had that negative merit, ill-starred and ill-launched Tip!)
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even had this not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded her judging by his subsequent conduct on similar occasions if so it had been that, by the process of hailing, he had obtained a negative answer to the question he put.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Eliza-beth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her re-peated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mis-taken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.
-- A most welcome negative followed the last question and her alarms now being removed, she was at leisure to feel a great deal of curiosity to see the house herself; and when the subject was revived the next morning, and she was again applied to, could readily answer, and with a proper air of in-difference, that she had not really any dislike to the scheme.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to com-fort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XLII A TOUCH OF SPRING--THE EMPTY SHELL Those who look upon Hurstwood's Brooklyn venture as an error of judgment will none the less realise the negative influence on him of the fact that he had tried and failed.
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