silly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 傻的， 糊涂的， 愚蠢的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very fond of them, though I often have to be scolding them; they are all as silly and mad as march hares.'
-- 'How silly you are!'
-- 'You ought to be whipped, Colia, you silly boy.
-- 'Well, it is a silly little story, in a few words,' began the delighted general.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think they are great nonsense, and I'll thank you not to be silly and spoil my fun.
-- 'Scold as much as you like, you'll never see your silly old book again,' cried Amy, getting excited in her turn.
-- Her innocent friendship with Laurie was spoiled by the silly speeches she had overheard.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And thinks I to myself all the while, mind, while I was stubbing my silly toes against that cursed pyramid so confoundedly contradictory was it all, all the while, I say, I was thinking to myself, 'what's his leg now, but a cane a whalebone cane.
-- There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory: there's the insanity of life!Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
-- As for Men-of-War, when they chance to meet at sea, they first go through such a string of silly bowings and scrapings, such a ducking of ensigns, that there does not seem to be much right-down hearty good-will and brotherly love about it at all.
-- Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Take him, you silly fellow!He's just the boy for you.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They have none of them much to recommend them,' re-plied he; 'they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.'
-- My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the wom-an who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
-- Wherever you and Jane are known you must be respected and valued; and you will not appear to less advantage for having a couple of or I may say, three very silly sisters.
-- But don't imagine it was from any silly cause.
-- Bingley looked a little silly at this reflection, and said something of his concern at having been prevented by busi-ness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman, but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it. It was rather a wish of distinction, she believed, which produced his contemptuous treatment of every body, and his general abuse of every thing before him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was, for the most part, silly and graced by the current slang.
-- They were off for a drive--she, looking about and noticing fine clothing, the young men voicing those silly pleasantries and weak quips which pass for humour in coy circles.
-- For the first time, it was being borne in upon her how silly and worthless had been her earlier reading, as a whole.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, they've got that; and it makes me feel pretty silly to think HOW they got it.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "For the silly reason of wanting to study, I have lost a paw."
-- "I certainly do mean you, poor Pinocchio--you who are such a little silly as to believe that gold can be sown in a field just like beans or squash.
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