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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His childish imagination evidently retraced all the scenes of his father's shipwreck.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then how Schneider told me about my childish nature, and ' 'Oh, CURSE Schneider and his dirty opinions!Go on.'
-- 'Well, I was precious dull with her, especially as she was so childish that there was nothing to be got out of her.
-- Every time that Aglaya showed temper (and this was very often), there was so much childish pouting, such 'school-girlishness,' as it were, in her apparent wrath, that it was impossible to avoid smiling at her, to her own unutterable indignation.
-- As for the letters N.P.B., he looked on that as a harmless joke, a mere childish piece of mischief so childish that he felt it would be shameful, almost dishon- ourable, to attach any importance to it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One prayer more will I make you, if you will grant it; let not my bones be laid apart from yours, Achilles, but with them; even as we were brought up together in your own home, what time Menoetius brought me to you as a child from Opoeis because by a sad spite I had killed the son of Amphidamas not of set purpose, but in childish quarrel over the dice.
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：
-- No exclamation of surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked, or reply given, for sev-eral minutes; each appearing to await the moment when he might speak, without betraying womanish curiosity or childish impatience.
-- While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for fin-ery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet and satisfied, as to betray that he had already effect-ed the grand purpose of his treachery.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nodding, for it would have been childish to cut him, I walked on quickly; but in a minute I felt a hand on my shoulder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
-- It was a weak fancy perhaps, the childish fancy of a young and lonely creature; but night after night, and still the sisters loitered in the same place, and still the child followed with a mild and softened heart.
-- In the most insensible or childish minds, there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest end in view.
-- They let him have his wish; and indeed he kept his word, and was, in his childish way, a lesson to them all.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third of the women who were occupied with sewing was Theodosia--called Fenichka by her fellow-prisoners--of light complexion, and with rosy cheeks; young, lovely, with bright, childish blue eyes, and two long, flaxen braids rolled up on her small head.
-- "In love, and earnestly in love!I never thought that Vladimir Simonson could fall in love in such a very stupid, childish fashion.
-- Maria Pablovna smiled in her pleasant, childish way.
-- 304): I never thought that Vladimir Simsonson could fall in love in such a very stupid, childish fashion.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wed-ding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.
-- Four little keys hung side by side, With faded ribbons, brave and gay When fastened there, with childish pride, Long ago, on a rainy day.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such childish fancies as she had had of fairy palaces and kingly quarters now came back.
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