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：
-- 'What a silly idea,' said the actress.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Venus screamed aloud, and let her son fall, but Phoebus Apollo caught him in his arms, and hid him in a cloud of darkness, lest some Danaan should drive a spear into his breast and kill him; and Diomed shouted out as he left her, 'Daughter of Jove, leave war and battle alone, can you not be contented with beguiling silly women?
-- I care no more than if a girl or some silly boy had hit me.
-- When Achilles saw him thus weeping he was sorry for him and said, 'Why, Patro-clus, do you stand there weeping like some silly child that comes running to her mother, and begs to be taken up and carried she catches hold of her mother's dress to stay her though she is in a hurry, and looks tearfully up until her mother carries her even such tears, Patroclus, are you now shedding.
-- They came swarming out like wasps whose nests are by the roadside, and whom silly children love to tease, whereon any one who happens to be passing may get stung or again, if a wayfarer going along the road vexes them by accident, every wasp will come flying out in a fury to defend his little ones even with such rage and courage did the Myrmidons swarm from their ships, and their cry of battle rose heaven-wards.
-- I have noble Anchis-es for my father, and Venus for my mother; the parents of one or other of us shall this day mourn a son, for it will be more than silly talk that shall part us when the fight is over.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought it seemed so silly not to know the man's name.
-- "You'll be alarmed in a minute, you silly fool," said Mr. Thomas Marvel.
-- "I'll show you, you silly ass hoaxing me!It's here on the paper!"
-- "Just to take me down a bit that was his silly game It's on the paper!"
-- It was late at night in the daytime one was bothered with the gaping, silly students and I worked then sometimes till dawn.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The silly ass who owns her, he's captain too, named Davies, he's lost his certificate, or something.
-- I never bar-gained to carry a mad devil and a silly Sawbones, a ' Well, never mind what he called Montgomery.
-- That captain was a silly ass.
-- It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary labora-tory-assistant, appealed to the conscience of the nation.
-- 'Look here, Prendick,' he said, 'I had no business to let you drift out into this silly island of ours.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera the Panther and no man's play-thing, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
-- Baloo will surely beat me, but that is better than chasing silly rose leaves with the Bandar-log.'
-- Now I am as silly and dumb as a man would be with us in the jungle.
-- I've found you the is-land where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe.
-- Men shoot us in the water and club us on the land; Men drive us to the Salt House like silly sheep and tame, And still we sing Lukannon before the sealers came.
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：
-- The Mohicans, though a part of the same nation, having to deal with the English, never entered into the silly bargain, but kept to their man-hood; as in truth did the Delawares, when their eyes were open to their folly.
-- Instead of taking the alarm, the unconscious savage stretched forward his neck, as if he also watched the move-ments about the gloomy lake, with a sort of silly curiosity.
-- The scout shook his head as he rejoined: 'The Lord never intended that the man should place all his endeavors in his throat, to the neglect of other and better gifts!But he has fallen into the hands of some silly woman, when he should have been gathering his education under a blue sky, among the beauties of the forest.
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