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：
-- Uncas acted as attendant to the females, performing all the little offices within his power, with a mixture of dignity and anxious grace, that served to amuse Heyward, who well knew that it was an utter inno-vation on the Indian customs, which forbid their warriors to descend to any menial employment, especially in favor of their women.
-- As the rights of hospitality were, however, considered sacred among them, this little departure from the dignity of manhood excited no audible comment.
-- repeated David, looking about him with that dignity with which he had long been wont to silence the whispering echoes of his school; 'tis a brave tune, and set to solemn words!let it be sung with meet respect!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became won-derfully gentle and ingratiating.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She remained so long silent after this exclamation, that Nell feared she felt her having been induced to bestow her protection and conversation upon one so poor, to be an outrage upon her dignity that nothing could repair.
-- Nell and her grandfather consulted together, and while they were so engaged, Mrs Jarley with her hands behind her walked up and down the caravan, as she had walked after tea on the dull earth, with uncommon dignity and self-esteem.
-- His mother was not a little startled on learning what service was required of her, and presently fell into a confusion of ideas, of which the most prominent were that it was a great honour and dignity to ride in a post-chaise, and that it was a moral impossibility to leave the children behind.
-- It was not so near, however, but that they spent another night upon the road; not that their doing so was quite an act of necessity, but that the schoolmaster, when they approached within a few miles of his village, had a fidgety sense of his dignity as the new clerk, and was unwilling to make his entry in dusty shoes, and travel-disordered dress.
-- The good woman, being not a little embarrassed by the novelty of her situation, and certain material apprehensions that perhaps by this time little Jacob, or the baby, or both, had fallen into the fire, or tumbled down stairs, or had been squeezed behind doors, or had scalded their windpipes in endeavouring to allay their thirst at the spouts of tea-kettles, preserved an uneasy silence; and meeting from the window the eyes of turnpike-men, omnibus-drivers, and others, felt in the new dignity of her position like a mourner at a funeral, who, not being greatly afflicted by the loss of the departed, recognizes his every-day acquaintance from the window of the mourning coach, but is constrained to preserve a decent solemnity, and the appearance of being indifferent to all external objects.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colonel spoke so impressively and with such self- confidence and dignity that no one dared to interrupt him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Here they come," said I; and I returned to my former position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that they should find me watching them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a certain point, I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And why is it," she asked at length, "that there is no flowering, no dignity of human life now?"
-- Indeed, she was like a little, twelve-hour clock, vis-脙聽-vis with the enormous clock of eternity there she was, like Dignity and Impudence, or Impudence and Dignity.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I've shown no disrespect,' was my reply, laughing internally at the dignity with which he announced himself.
-- Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity to support the oppressions of a little farmer!
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