delicate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 易碎的; 易生病的, 娇弱的; 精巧的; 微妙的; 美味的，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this progress I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook, who, being behind me, persisted all the way as a delicate attention in arranging my streaming hatband, and smoothing my cloak.
-- Wemmick went on; "it happened--happened, don't you see?--that this woman was so very artfully dressed from the time of her apprehension, that she looked much slighter than she really was; in particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she looked very pretty, and too delicate 72 Grimms' Fairy Talesfor a waiting-maid, he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was she had brought with her, that was thus left standing in the court below.
-- This rang pleasantly in the tailor's ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: 'Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.'
-- And when the first servant came with a dish of delicate fare, the peasant nudged his wife, and said: 'Grete, that was the first,' meaning that was the servant who brought the first dish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In yielding up my trust here, I shall not be freed from the necessity of eating the bread of dependence:' she might have said the sweetbread, for that delicate article in a savoury brown sauce was her favourite supper: 'and I would rather receive it from your hand, than from any other.
-- And the honourable member had so tickled the House (which has a delicate sense of humour) by putting the cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any serious reference to the Coroner's Inquest, and brought the railway off with Cheers and Laughter.
-- He had artfully, but plainly, assured her that he knew her heart in its last most delicate recesses; he had come so near to her through its tenderest sentiment; he had associated himself with that feeling; and the barrier behind which she lived, had melted away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will load myself with the rest of the eatables, and with the more delicate instruments."
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：
-- Fashion-able women kept their bodies bright like delicate porcelain, by external attention.
-- How beautiful he felt, how pure in tissue!How lovely, how lovely, strong, and yet pure and delicate, such stillness of the sensitive body!Such utter stillness of potency and delicate flesh.
-- And his hands stroked her softly, as if she were a flower, without the quiver of desire, but with delicate nearness.
-- The back was white and fine, the small buttocks beautiful with an exquisite, delicate manliness, the back of the neck ruddy and delicate and yet strong.
-- She could not help realizing that he was instinctively much more delicate and well-bred than herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She is very delicate and inexperienced indeed.'
-- Mr Clennam, as I have happened to mention handsome and delicate action, you may like, perhaps, to know what it was.'
-- 'Very much,' said Arthur, withdrawing his eyes from the delicate head beginning to droop and the pale face with a new solicitude stealing over it.
-- 'It appeared from his conversation that he had a garden, though he was delicate of mentioning it at first, as gardens are hem are not accessible to me.
-- Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be what it was.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt delicate about taking any, as I couldn't return them, and I'm actually suffering for one.'
-- Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with hon-eysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
-- Amy, who was fond of delicate fare, took a heaping spoonful, choked, hid her face in her napkin, and left the table precipitately.
-- Meg cheerfully blackened and burned her white hands cooking delicate messes for 'the dear', while Amy, a loyal slave of the ring, celebrated her return by giving away as many of her treasures as she could prevail on her sisters to accept.
-- Having no ornaments fine enough for this important occasion, Amy looped her fleecy skirts with rosy clusters of azalea, and framed the white shoulders in delicate green vines.
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