despise是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 轻视， 蔑视，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While they despise your breath, and would stop it for ever and ever, in you or in a hundred like you rather than in one of their own horses or 247dogs, they only know what your breath tells them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am come to despise thee,' said he.
-- 'I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfor-tunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear we have enough and more than enough such in reality.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You despise public official work because you want the reality to be invariably corresponding all the while with the aim--and that's not how it is.
-- The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even be offended by each other.
-- Consequently Vronsky had the right to despise Levin, and therefore he was his enemy.
-- But whether I am right or wrong, that pride you so despise makes any thought of Katerina Alexandrovna out of the question for me,-- you understand, utterly out of the question."
-- In spite of the fact that, preparing herself for meeting him, she had schooled herself to despise and reproach him, she did not know what to say to him, and she felt sorry for him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With unexpected defiance from Leora: "When anybody says that, it means they're not shy, and they despise women."
-- They're loyal to their friends, but they despise the rest.
-- Why not, when the mass of people despise them if they AREN'T bandits?
-- "Why, sure, course I--" "Of course you haven't!And you despise us, rather, and perhaps you're partly right.
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：
-- It's hardly civil, Porfiry Petrovitch, but perhaps I won't allow it!I shall get up and throw the whole truth in your ugly faces, and you'll see how I despise you.'
-- Quite an-other question!You simply despise her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet I did not despise him the more for it, butthought it a redeeming quality in him, if he could be allowed anygrace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.
-- 'I have shown you often enough,' said I,'that I despise you.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told her that he had been im-patient to leave the dining-room hated sitting long was always the first to move when he could that his father, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Cox, and Mr. Cole, were left very busy over parish business that as long as he had staid, however, it had been pleasant enough, as he had found them in general a set of gentlemanlike, sensible men; and spoke so hand-somely of Highbury altogether thought it so abundant in agreeable families that Emma began to feel she had been used to despise the place rather too much.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh Mr. Oak that's very fine!You'd get to despise me."
-- "Who are you, then, who can so well afford to despise opinion?"
-- Beyond a politic wish to remain unknown, there suddenly arose in him now a sense of shame at the possibility that his attractive young wife, who already despised him, should despise him more by discovering him in so mean a condition after so long a time.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) *keeping*; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
-- Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he ap-peared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
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