childish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 孩子的； 幼稚的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness, towards the door; and he, nothing loth to go, accompanied her.
-- Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two childish voices (Stepan Arkadyevitch recognized the voices of Grisha, his youngest boy, and Tanya, his eldest girl) were heard outside the door.
-- And it was so strange to see this sensible, manly face in such a childish plight, that Oblonsky left off looking at him.
-- When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm of that little fair head, so freely set on the shapely girlish shoulders, and so full of childish brightness and good humor.
-- Varenka felt inclined to smile, looking at her childish fury, but she was afraid of wounding her.
-- Kitty wrote that no prospect was so alluring as to spend the summer with Dolly at Ergushovo, full of childish associations for both of them.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lifted to him her two open hands, childish in red mittens.
-- She trotted daily to the car-line, a neat, childish figure with note-books and sharpened pencils, to vanish in the horde of students.
-- The childish Martin Arrowsmith, so unworthy of Leora's old quiet wisdoms, was not content with her acceptance by the Group.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and rea-soning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most es-sential.
-- The bodies upstairs were warm, you under-stand, warm when they found them!If they, or Nikolay alone, had murdered them and broken open the boxes, or simply taken part in the robbery, allow me to ask you one question: do their state of mind, their squeals and giggles and childish scuffling at the gate fit in with axes, bloodshed, fiendish cunning, robbery?
-- Ideas, if you like, are fermenting,' he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, 'and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands.
-- Soon his eyes rested on little Lida, his favourite, who was shaking in the corner, as though she were in a fit, and star-ing at him with her wondering childish eyes.
-- The ago-nised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood-stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child's, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful inappearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were herfault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid shewas but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother ifshe lived.
-- A word ofencouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance,of welcome home, or reassurance to me that it was home, mighthave made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of inmy hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect insteadof hate him.
-- I thought my mother was sorry to see me standing inthe room so scared and strange, and that, presently, when I stole toa chair, she followed me with her eyes more sorrowfully still-missing, perhaps, some freedom in my childish tread- but theword was not spoken, and the time for it was gone.
-- Itappeared to my childish fancy, as I ascended to the bedroom whereI had been imprisoned, that they brought a cold blast of air into thehouse which blew away the old familiar feeling like a feather.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What you call encouragement was the childish game of an idle minute.
-- The tongue of the more childish woman still ran upon recent events.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine mine to protect, love, and cherish.
-- My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager de-32 Frankensteinsire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.
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