sweetness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 甜蜜； 新鲜； 温和，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one else in Stepan Arkadyevitch's place, having to do with such despair, would have ventured to smile (the smile would have seemed brutal); but in his smile there was so much of sweetness and almost feminine tenderness that his smile did not wound, but softened and soothed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sincerity, rectitude, firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman, who could dare all to save him to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then penetrated him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With three other Brahmins he formed in Mohalis a Boston colony which stood for sturdy sweetness and decorously shaded light.
-- The struggle, in its contrast to the aching sweetness of Leora, had infuriated him.
-- She must have been a veritable girl of the late eighties and the early nineties, the naive and idyllic age of Howells, when young men were pure, when they played croquet and sang Swanee River; a girl who sat on a front porch enchanted by the sweetness of lilacs, and hoped that when Almus and she were married they would have a nickel-plated baseburner stove and a son who would become a missionary or a millionaire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As this change stole on Annie, once like sunshine in the Doctor'shouse, the Doctor became older in appearance, and more grave;but the sweetness of his temper, the placid kindness of his manner,and his benevolent solicitude for her, if they were capable of anyincrease, were increased.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper 50 Emmaand artlessness in herself.
-- Her good-nature, too, is not so very slight a claim, comprehending, as it does, real, thorough sweetness of temper and manner, a very humble opinion of herself, and a great readiness to be pleased with other people.
-- The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.
-- But be it sweetness or be it stupidity in her quickness of friendship, or dulness of feeling there was one person, I think, who must have felt it: Miss Fairfax herself.
-- Emma watched the entree of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsen-timental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed af-fection.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him the most trifling service, his whole counte-16 Frankensteinnance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
-- Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without look-ing on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett had frequently used the same trick herself when discussingother girls with men, and it had never failed to convince foolish males of her sweetness and unselfishness.
-- Frequently she flared into open wrath under his expert baiting, for she had Gerald's Irish temperalong with the deceptive sweetness of face she had inherited from Ellen.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, with the conventionalized sweetness suitable.
-- Still more sweetness on Connie's part.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the interminable Sunday of his nonage; when his mother, stern of face and unrelenting of heart, would sit all day behind a Bible bound, like her own construction of it, in the hardest, barest, and straitest boards, with one dinted ornament on the cover like the drag of a chain, and a wrathful sprinkling of red upon the edges of the leaves as if it, of all books!were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse.
-- She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For in that sad yet hap-py hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-con-trol, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.
-- Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always be-fore her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and to sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
-- If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
-- Never mind what happened just after that, for the full hearts overflowed, washing away the bitterness of the past and leaving only the sweetness of the present.
-- No little affectations marred it, and the cordial sweetness of her manner was more charm-ing than the new beauty or the old grace, for it stamped her at once with the unmistakable sign of the true gentlewoman she had hoped to become.
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