courtesy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 礼貌, 谦恭，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：
-- he asked, with the greatest courtesy and amiability.
-- But, my dear fellow, I swear to you, I swear he doesn't even KNOW her, and as for those bills, why, the whole thing is an invention!And the familiarity of the woman!It's quite clear we must treat the impudent creature's attempt with disdain, and redouble our courtesy towards Evgenie.
-- He now said something to his wife who, without leaving her place, addressed a few words of gratitude and courtesy to me.
-- Perhaps what most appealed to the prince's impressionability was the refinement of the old man's courtesy towards him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Go then, for you are younger than I, and of your courtesy rouse Ajax and the fleet son of Phyle-us.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went up to Madame Stahl, and addressed her with extreme courtesy and affability in that excellent French that so few speak nowadays.
-- Vassenka only rose for an instant, and with the lack of courtesy to ladies characteristic of the modern young man, he scarcely bowed, and resumed his conversation again, laughing at something.
-- On the contrary, when Kitty looked at him in society, as one sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression he must make on others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he was very attractive with his fine breeding, his rather old-fashioned, reserved courtesy with women, his powerful figure, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face.
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 artifice of neither, however, succeed-ed; and after a protracted and fruitless interview, Duncan took his leave, favorably impressed with an opinion of the courtesy and talents of the enemy's captain, but as ignorant of what he came to learn as when he arrived.
-- Notwithstanding the increasing warmth of the amicable contest, the most decorous Christian assembly, not even ex-cepting those in which its reverend ministers are collected, might have learned a wholesome lesson of moderation from the forbearance and courtesy of the disputants.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As their suave courtesy smothered him, Martin felt like a footman.
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：
-- There was a look of poignant discomfort in her face, as though Avdotya Romanovna's courtesy and attention were oppressive and painful to her.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was much about the South andSoutherners that he would never comprehend; but, with the wholeheartedness that was his nature, he adopted its ideasand customs, as he understood them, for his own poker and horse racing, red-hot politics and the code duello, States'Rights and damnation to all Yankees, slavery and King Cotton, contempt for white trash and exaggerated courtesy towomen.
-- He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, soinadequately covered by their courtesy.
-- If she did resent it, she never gave any sign of it,treating Scarlett with the same slightly aloof, kindly courtesy she had always shown her.
-- She had never given him more than perfunctory courtesy before, and sothe beaming smile of pleasure with which she greeted him and the two hands outstretched to his almost took his breathaway.
-- There was contempt in his manner as in his eyes, contempt overlaid with an air of courtesy that somehowburlesqued their own manners.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clennam returned, with an uncomfortable feeling in so very slight a courtesy being unusual, Was that all!And stooping down to pinch the cheek of another young child who was sitting on the floor, staring at him, asked Mrs Plornish how old that fine boy was?
-- 'My dear,' said Mr Dorrit, 'it will be an act of courtesy to hum a lady, well bred and refined ''Oh!I am sick of Mrs General's good breeding and refinement, papa,' said Fanny.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this one matter, Ahab seemed no exception to most American whale captains, who, as a set, rather incline to the opinion that by rights the ship's cabin belongs to them; and that it is by courtesy alone that anybody else is, at any time, permitted there.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that moment, Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but on perceiving Mr. Darcy, he stopped with a bow of superior courtesy to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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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