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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsen-timental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed af-fection.
-- The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's probably some vul-gar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live! The dignity of Miss Woodhouse, of Hartfield, was sunk indeed!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The self-consciousness shown would have been vanity if a little more pronounced, dignity if a little less.
-- She seemed to prefer a less tragic probability; to have saved a man from death involved talk that should harmonise with the dignity of such a deed and she shunned it.
-- At this criticism of her statement Bathsheba made an addition to her dignity by a slight sweep away from him.
-- Liddy, elevating her feelings to the occasion from a sense of grandeur, floated off behind Bathsheba with a milder dignity not entirely free from travesty, and the door was closed.
-- This giving back of dignity for dignity seemed to open the sluices of feeling that Boldwood had as yet kept closed.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Beauseant gave the student a glance, one of those glances in which a great soul can mingle dignity and gratitude.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
-- 46 FrankensteinHis manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.
-- Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of igno-rance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As valet, he kept Gerald'sbedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let mattersfollow their own course.
-- She quickly brought order, dignity and graceinto Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
-- There was a brief interval ofwhispering, and Pork entered, his usual dignity gone, his eyes rolling and his teeth a-gleam.
-- She was self-possessed and walked with a dignity that surpassedeven Mammy's, for Mammy had acquired her dignity and Dilcey's was in her blood.
-- She knew itwas beneath the dignity of quality white folks to pay the slightest attention to what a darky said when she was justgrumbling to herself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe called "Pompeyed," or (as I render it) pampered.
-- Mrs. Pocket's dignity was so crushing, that I felt quite abashed, as if I myself had done something to rouse it.
-- said Mrs. Pocket, whose dignity was roused again.
-- Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars were, I was conscious of a sort of dignity in the look.
-- I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was indeed treated with much kindness: I was the favourite of a great king and queen, and the delight of the whole court; but it was upon such a foot as ill became the dignity of humankind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I certainly, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a dignity serenely mournful, 'was familiar with the Italian Opera at a very early age.'
-- Set anywhere, side by side, the work of God and the work of man; and the former, even though it be a troop of Hands of very small account, will gain in dignity from the comparison.
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