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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only important thing, in my eyes, is that you should not be going there simply for the plea-sure of spending your evening in such company cocottes, generals, usurers!If that were the case I should despise and laugh at you.
-- You'd begin to despise me afterwards we should never be happy.
-- In short, their attitude was not that which one would have expected in men who professed to despise all trivialities, all foolish mundane conventions, and indeed everything, except their own personal interests.
-- I ought to have done it differently, and now... there is no way of do-ing it, for you despise me...' 'I declare, this is a lunatic asylum!'
-- You fear our sincerity more than anything, although you despise us!The idea crossed my mind that night... You thought I was mak-ing fun of you just now, Lizabetha Prokofievna?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henceforth they will despise you, for you are become no better than a woman.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, despise 'em.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bitch-goddess!Well, if one had to prosti-tute oneself, let it be to a bitch-goddess!One could always despise her even while one prostituted oneself to her, which was good.
-- He would detest and despise her, for he had come almost to hate the shoving forward of the working classes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'O despise me, despise me!Look away from me, don't listen to me, stop me, blush for me, cry for me even you, Amy!Do it, do it!I do it to myself!I am hardened now, I have sunk too low to care long even for that.'
-- 'If you despise me,' she said, bursting into vehement tears, 'because I am a dancer, why did you put me in the way of being one?
-- I despise such a weak fantasy."
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I despise you.'
-- Presently he sat up and asked slowly, 'Do you think Jo would despise me as you do?'
-- Pride forbid, and whenever the longing grew very strong, he fortified his res-olution by repeating the words that had made the deepest impression, 'I despise you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I despise 'em,' said the beadle, growing very red in the face.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house for ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for their sakes avoid a breach with their brother.
-- Lady Middleton was ashamed of doing nothing before them, and the flattery which Lucy was proud to think of and administer at other times, she feared they would despise her for offering.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "She asks only in return," said Carrie, scarcely hearing the small, scheduled reply of her lover, and putting herself even more in harmony with the plaintive melody now issuing from the orchestra, "that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak devotion; that when you address her your voice shall be gentle, loving, and kind; that you shall not despise her because she cannot understand all at once your vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs; for, when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you.
-- You look to the trees," she continued, while Hurstwood restrained his feelings only by the grimmest repression, "for strength and grandeur; do not despise the flowers because their fragrance is all they have to give.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People would call me a low- down Abolition-ist and despise me for keeping mum but that don't make no difference.
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