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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was a meal, was raised to the dignity of a ceremony, that is all.
-- Savages in general, and particularly the Maories, have a notion of dignity from which they never derogate.
-- He was invested with the dignity of priest, and, as such, he had the power to throw over persons or things the superstitious protection of the "taboo."
-- "Breakfast is ready," announced Olbinett with as much dignity as if he was in Malcolm Castle.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Totski ended his tale with the same dignity that had characterized its commencement.
-- The general informed him that they must part for ever; that he was grateful, but that even from him he could not accept 'signs of sympathy which were humiliating to the dignity of a man already miserable enough.'
-- It never struck him that all this refined simplicity and nobility and wit and personal dignity might possibly be no more than an exquisite artistic polish.
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：
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
-- A silence of a minute succeeded, during which the In-dian sat mute; then, full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his brief tale, with a solemnity that served to heighten its appearance of truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's of no use disguising facts, ma'am,' said Mr. Bumble, slowly flourishing the teaspoon with a kind of amorous dignity which made him doubly impressive; 'I would drown it myself, with pleasure.'
-- It was a round table; and as Mrs. Corney and Mr. Bumble had been sitting opposite each other, with no great space between them, and fronting the fire, it will be seen that Mr. Bumble, in receding from the fire, and still keeping at the table, increased the distance between himself and Mrs. Corney; which proceeding, some prudent readers will doubtless be disposed to admire, and to consider an act of great heroism on Mr. Bumble's part: he being in some sort tempted by time, place, and opportunity, to give utterance to certain soft nothings, which however well they may become the lips of the light and thoughtless, do seem immeasurably beneath the dignity of judges of the land, members of parliament, ministers of state, lord mayors, and other great public functionaries, but more particularly beneath the stateliness and gravity of a beadle: who (as is well known) should be the sternest and most inflexible among them all.
-- There are some promotions in life, which, independent of the more substantial rewards they offer, require peculiar value and dignity from the coats and waistcoats connected with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth made no answer, and took her place in the set, amazed at the dignity to which she was arrived in being allowed to stand opposite to Mr. Darcy, and reading in her neighbours' looks, their equal amazement in beholding it.
-- Mr. Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclina-tion, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: 'My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters with-in the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the es-tablished forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.
-- And there is something of dignity in his coun-tenance that would not give one an unfavourable idea of his heart.
-- If he had been wavering before as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and entreaty of so near a relation might settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy as dignity unblemished could make him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and by the means of this continual though gentle vent, was able not only to see the Miss Dashwoods from the first without the smallest emotion, but very soon to see them without recollecting a word of the matter; and having thus supported the dignity of her own sex, and spoken her decided censure of what was wrong in the other, she thought herself at liberty to attend to the interest of her own assemblies, and therefore determined (though rather against the opinion of Sir John) that as Mrs. Willoughby would at once be a woman of elegance and fortune, to leave her card with her as soon as she married.
-- His heart was now open to Elinor, all its weaknesses, all its errors confessed, and his first boyish attachment to Lucy treated with all the philosophic dignity of twenty-four.
-- About four days after Edward's arrival Colonel Brandon appeared, to complete Mrs. Dashwood's satisfaction, and to give her the dignity of having, for the first time since her living at Barton, more company with her than her house would hold.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no mental process in him worthy the dignity of either of those terms.
-- As it was, he received and gave, irritated sometimes by the little displays of selfish indifference, pleased at times by some show of finery which supposedly made for dignity and social distinction.
-- Temporarily she gave little thought to Drouet, thinking only of the dignity and grace of her lover and of his consuming affection for her.
-- For all his lack of dignity in such matters he did not know how to begin.
-- The air of assurance and dignity about it all was exceedingly noticeable to the novitiate.
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