degrade是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 贬低; 恶化; 分解, 降解，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 always make the wrong gestures inappropriate gestures and therefore I degrade the Thought, and raise a laugh instead of doing my subject justice.
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：
-- 'We have a wise ordinance in our Salique laws, which says, 'The crown of France shall never degrade the lance to the distaff',' said Montcalm, dryly, and with a little hauteur; but instantly adding, with his former frank and easy air: 'as all the nobler qualities are hereditary, I can easily credit you; though, as I said before, courage has its limits, and hu-manity must not be forgotten.
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：
-- No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and 芒聙娄 she is still the same, of course!Yes, there's no denying, the Svid-riga脙炉lovs are a bitter pill!It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her mor-al dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in com-mon for her own advantage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To degrade you?'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Since you choose to degrade yourself," he said.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am.
-- He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary improvement!and this dear parlour in which our acquaintance first began, and in which so many happy hours have been since spent by us together, you would degrade to the condition of a common entrance, and every body would be eager to pass through the room which has hitherto contained within itself more real accommodation and comfort than any other apartment of the handsomest dimensions in the world could possibly afford."
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