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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon.
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：
-- ' Burns eyward and his female companions witnessed this Hmysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above reproach, his rude equipments, blunt address, and strong antipathies, together with the character of his silent associates, were all causes for exciting distrust in minds that had been so recently alarmed by Indian treachery.
-- 'You would scarce find the tent of the Frenchman with the hair on your head"; said the blunt scout.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clergyman's horse, stumbling with a dull blunt sound among the graves, was cropping the grass; at once deriving orthodox consolation from the dead parishioners, and enforcing last Sunday's text that this was what all flesh came to; a lean ass who had sought to expound it also, without being qualified and ordained, was pricking his ears in an empty pound hard by, and looking with hungry eyes upon his priestly neighbour.
-- And truly, they were as sturdy and bluff a pair of boots as one would wish to see; as firmly planted on the ground as if their owner's legs and feet had been in them; and seeming, with their broad soles and blunt toes, to hold possession of their place by main force.
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：
-- He sat slack and motionless in the boat, his head blunt and blind like a seal's, his whole appearance inhuman, unknowing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know your castle wouldn't be perfect without,' said blunt Jo, who had no tender fancies yet, and rather scorned romance, except in books.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then," cried Mrs. Jennings with blunt sincerity, no longer able to be silent, "he has acted like an honest man!I beg your pardon, Mr. Dashwood, but if he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal.
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