dignity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高贵, 尊贵, 高位，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：
-- It was not for his dignity to notice it; his con-temptuous eyes passed over her, and over all the other rats; and he leaned back in his seat again, and gave the word 'Go on!'
-- His son obeyed, and the crowd approached; they were bawling and hissing round a dingy hearse and din-gy mourning coach, in which mourning coach there was only one mourner, dressed in the dingy trappings that were considered essential to the dignity of the position.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty felt that in her, in her manner of life, she would find an example of what she was now so painfully seeking: interest in life, a dignity in life--apart from the worldly relations of girls with men, which so revolted Kitty, and appeared to her now as a shameful hawking about of goods in search of a purchaser.
-- And kissing Kitty once more, without saying what was important, she stepped out courageously with the music under her arm and vanished into the twilight of the summer night, bearing away with her her secret of what was important and what gave her the calm and dignity so much to be envied.
-- Not in that room only, but in the whole world, there existed for him only himself, with enormously increased importance and dignity in his own eyes, and she.
-- He said this from habit, lifting his brows with dignity, and reflected immediately that whatever his words might be, there could be no dignity in his position.
-- Divorce, the details of which he knew by this time, seemed to him now out of the question, because the sense of his own dignity and respect for religion forbade his taking upon himself a fictitious charge of adultery, and still more suffering his wife, pardoned and beloved by him, to be caught in the fact and put to public shame.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She moved beside him with a little dancing step, shyer now than she had been in the dignity of her job but looking up at him with confidence.
-- However much he scoffed, he was gratified when he was treated as a peer by Angus, who spent the summer as extern in the Zenith General Hospital, and who already had the unapproachable dignity of a successful young surgeon.
-- But in the bustle of leaving Zenith, the excitement of the journey to Wheatsylvania, the scramble of his state examinations, the dignity of being a Practicing Physician, he forgot Gottlieb, and on that Dakota prairie radiant in early June, with meadow larks on every fence post, he began his work.
-- Not once did he talk of results of the sort called "practical"; not once did he cease warring on the post hoc propter hoc conclusions which still make up most medical lore; not once did he fail to be hated by his colleagues, who were respectful to his face, uncomfortable in feeling his ironic power, but privily joyous to call him Mephisto, Diabolist, Killjoy, Pessimist, Destructive Critic, Flippant Cynic, Scientific Bounder Lacking in Dignity and Seriousness, Intellectual Snob, Pacifist, Anarchist, Atheist, Jew.
-- The veterinarian of the county denounced him for intruding on their right to save or kill cattle; the physicians hinted, "That's the kind of monkey-business that ruins the dignity of the profession.
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：
-- He was an exceptionally good-humoured and candid youth, good-natured to the point of simplicity, though both depth and dignity lay concealed under that simplicity.
-- Of course if she were to tell me her-self that she wanted me, I should think myself very lucky, because I like the girl very much; but as it is, no one has ever treated her more courteously than I, with more respect for her dignity 芒聙娄 I wait in hopes, that's all!'
-- After a pause of still greater dignity he continued.
-- Listening to Sonia with dignity, Katerina Ivanovna inquired with equal dignity how Pyotr Petrovitch was, then at once whispered almost aloud to Raskolnikov that it certainly would have been strange for a man of Pyotr Petrovitch's po-sition and standing to find himself in such 'extraordinary company,' in spite of his devotion to her family and his old friendship with her father.
-- Then once more with pride and dignity she scanned her visitors, and suddenly inquired aloud across the table of the deaf man: 'Wouldn't he have some more meat, and had he been given some wine?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am sensibleof having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of theboys, and that I was important in my affliction.
-- Mr. Dick, for a moment, looked a little disappointed; until thehonour and dignity of having to take care of the most wonderfulwoman in the world, restored the sunshine to his face.
-- He said it wasno derogation from a man's dignity to confess that I was a devilishgood fellow.
-- She rose with an air of dignity to leavethe room, when Mr. Peggotty signified that it was needless.
-- When I walked about, exalted with my secret, and full of my owninterest, and felt the dignity of loving Dora, and of being beloved,so much, that if I had walked the air, I could not have been moreabove the people not so situated, who were creeping on the earth!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her tears fell abundantly but her grief was so truly art-less, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes and she listened to her and tried to con-sole her with all her heart and understanding really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelli-gence could do.
-- Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
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