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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.
-- I had not quite understood until that instant how delicate my mission was.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, again, there was another delicate ques-tion, to which he could not find an answer; dared not, in fact, think of it; but at the very idea of which he trembled and blushed.
-- You, once so refined and delicate of speech.
-- When, therefore, she was bound to talk, especially at such delicate moments as this, she invariably did so with an air of haughty defiance.
-- The prince did not snub Lebedeff's curiosity, however, because he felt any contempt for him; but simply because the subject was too delicate to talk about.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the son of Tydeus was in pursuit of the Cyprian goddess, spear in hand, for he knew her to be feeble and not one of those goddesses that can lord it among men in battle like Minerva or Enyo the waster of cities, and when at last after a long chase he caught her up, he flew at her and thrust his spear into the flesh of her delicate hand.
-- 'Father Jove,' said she, 'do not be angry with me, but I think the Cyprian must have been persuading some one of the Achaean women to go with the Trojans of whom she is so very fond, and while caressing one or other of them she must have torn her delicate hand with the gold pin of the woman's brooch.'
-- With this she anointed her delicate skin, and then she plaited the fair ambrosial locks that flowed in a stream of golden tresses from her immortal head.
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：
-- The flush which still lingered above the pines in the west-ern sky was not more bright nor delicate than the bloom on her cheek; nor was the opening day more cheering than the animated smile which she bestowed on the youth, as he assisted her into the saddle.
-- David began to utter sounds that would have shocked his delicate organs in more wakeful moments; in short, all but Hawkeye and the Mohicans lost every idea of consciousness, in uncontrollable drowsiness.
-- It appeared as if the delicate and sensitive form of Alice would shrink into itself, as she listened to this pro-posal.
-- 'Friend,' he added, thrusting forth his lean, delicate hand toward Hawkeye, in kindness, while his eyes twin-kled and grew moist, 'I thank thee that the hairs of my head still grow where they were first rooted by Providence; for, though those of other men may be more glossy and curl-ing, I have ever found mine own well suited to the brain they shelter.
-- Ay, the French have gathered around the fort in good earnest and we have a delicate needle to thread in passing them.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty- pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slap-jacks, well buttered, and garnished with hon-ey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though so bad a painter, he had a very delicate feeling for art, and to go with him to picture-galleries was a rare treat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The delicate sensibility of balloons is well known.
-- replied the engineer, "we might, no doubt, find all these substances on the island, but a gun is a delicate instrument, and needs very particular tools.
-- The needles found in the box were used by sturdy if not delicate fingers, and we may be sure that what was sewn was sewn firmly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- Though much altered by age, I fancied I could recognize in his spare and slender form something of that delicate mould which I had noticed in the child.
-- 'This delicate child,' said I, 'with so much beauty and intelligence has she nobody to care for her but you?
-- He furthermore took occasion to apologize for any negligence that might be perceptible in his dress, on the ground that last night he had had 'the sun very strong in his eyes'; by which expression he was understood to convey to his hearers in the most delicate manner possible, the information that he had been extremely drunk.
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
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