blunt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 钝的; 生硬的; 直率的; vt. 使钝, 把…弄迟钝，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly for-getting the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and grow-ing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was carefully with a blunt knife getting a live bee covered with sticky honey out of a cup full of white honeycomb.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (But one cannot convey the quality of it: the thin drawl, the sardonic amiability, the hiss of the S's, the D's turned into blunt and challenging T's.)
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：
-- He pulled the axe quite out, swung it with both arms, scarcely conscious of himself, and almost without effort, almost mechanically, brought the blunt side down on her head.
-- Then he dealt her another and another blow with the blunt side and on the same spot.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because a plain blunt man, who has never been taught concealment, speaks out his mind without exactly intending it, he's to be snapped off like the son of a sinner."
-- Ah, well, Miss Everdene, you are pardon my blunt way you are rather an injury to our race than otherwise."
-- "But you said before beginning that it was blunt and couldn't cut me!"
-- Honesty and pure conviction suggested the remark, unaccompanied by any perception that it might have been adopted by blunt flattery to soothe and win her.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condi-tion at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh, blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
-- As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One black ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir!It wasn't for myself I took it!"
-- She had been struck with something blunt and heavy, on the head and spine; after the blows were dealt, something heavy had been thrown down at her with considerable violence, as she lay on her face.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as they got into order they divided into two parties, per-formed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and in short discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
-- By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, 'that I trot like a horse;' which, however, I take for a great com-pliment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another remarkable thing in this little old woman was, that the same child seemed to have damaged her face in two or three places with some blunt instrument in the nature of a spoon; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, presenting the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article.
-- said Pancks, softly, touching it with his blunt forefinger.
-- They believed that foreigners were dragooned and bayoneted; and though they certainly got their own skulls promptly fractured if they showed any ill-humour, still it was with a blunt instrument, and that didn't count.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old lady wouldn't speak to them for a time, but hap-pening to meet Jo at at a friend's, something in her comical face and blunt manners struck the old lady's fancy, and she proposed to take her for a companion.
-- Laurie turned red again, but wasn't offended at being ac-cused of bashfulness, for there was so much good will in Jo it was impossible not to take her blunt speeches as kindly as they were meant.
-- He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him, and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.
-- 'No, I don't,' was the blunt reply.
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