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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a part, at once of Mrs. Sparsit's dignity and service, not to lunch.
-- He now and then slided into my lady, instead of ma'am, as an involuntary acknowledgment of Mrs. Sparsit's personal dignity and claims to reverence.
-- He smoked with great gravity and dignity for a little while, and then added, in a highly complacent tone, 'Oh!I have picked up a little since.
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：
-- For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an ab-solute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom.
-- The human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-men seem actually nonexistent.
-- And he realized as he went into her that this was the thing he had to do, to e into tender touch, without losing his pride or his dignity or his integrity as a man.
-- For my part, since you are my wife, I should prefer that you should stay under my roof in dignity and quiet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put this second one so perseveringly that a stool and twelve shillings a week were at last found for Tip in the office of an attorney in a great National Palladium called the Palace Court; at that time one of a considerable list of everlasting bulwarks to the dignity and safety of Albion, whose places know them no more.
-- The Father of the Marshalsea was supposed to know nothing about the matter, of course: his poor dignity could not see so low.
-- Such was the homily with which he improved and pointed the occasion to the company in the Lodge before turning into the sallow yard again, and going with his own poor shabby dignity past the Collegian in the dressing-gown who had no coat, and past the Collegian in the sea-side slippers who had no shoes, and past the stout greengrocer Collegian in the corduroy knee-breeches who had no cares, and past the lean clerk Collegian in buttonless black who had no hopes, up his own poor shabby staircase to his own poor shabby room.
-- Among her connections and acquaintances, however, she maintained her individual dignity and the dignity of the blood of the Barnacles, by diligently nursing the pretence that it was a most unfortunate business; that she was sadly cut up by it; that this was a perfect fascination under which Henry laboured; that she had opposed it for a long time, but what could a mother do; and the like.
-- At length a county-widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the lady; and as it was a part either of the native dignity or of the artificial policy of Mrs General (but certainly one or the other) to comport herself as if she were much more sought than seeking, the widower pursued Mrs General until he prevailed upon her to form his daughter's mind and manners.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall never 'go and marry' anyone,' observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself, though she might have been tempted to join them if she had not had her best dress on.
-- 'Yes, but you won't do it,' answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be ap-peased first.
-- John was a little disappointed not to find a tender Niobe, but feeling that his dignity demanded the first apology, he made none, only came leisurely in and laid himself upon the sofa with the singularly relevant remark, 'We are going to have a new moon, my dear.'
-- Jo like that, and thought the new dignity very becoming, but the boy seemed changing very fast into the man, and re-gret mingled with her pleasure.
-- Now I demand the satisfaction of a gentleman,' and with that the tall uncle pro-ceeded to toss and tousle the small nephew in a way that damaged his philosophical dignity as much as it delighted his boyish soul.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real dignity in whaling.
-- No dignity in whaling?
-- The dignity of our calling the very heavens attest.
-- In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts.
-- Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in 'the house' who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need.
-- Mrs. Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
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