meek是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 温顺的, 谦逊的，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：
-- 'But how meek she was when you spoke to her!'
-- He was a most meek and humble fellow, was Surikoff.
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：
-- Hither the faithful sing-ing-master had now brought himself, together with all his sorrows, his apprehensions, and his meek dependence on the protection of Providence.
-- Cora regarded him not, but dropping on her knees, she raised her eyes and stretched her arms toward heaven, say-ing in a meek and yet confiding voice: 'I am thine; do with me as thou seest best!'
-- Gamut stood at his side, his meek head bared to the rays of the sun, while his eyes, wander-ing and concerned, seemed to be equally divided between that little volume, which contained so many quaint but holy maxims, and the being in whose behalf his soul yearned to administer consolation.
-- The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed.
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：
-- Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all these taunts and vexations failed to elicit one word from the meek schoolmaster, who sat with the child by his side a little more dejected perhaps, but quite silent and uncomplaining.
-- It was a new grave the resting-place, perhaps, of some little creature, who, meek and patient in its illness, had often sat and watched them, and now seemed, to their minds, scarcely changed.
-- 'I have brought a letter,' cried the meek little woman.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender.
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：
-- "They remind me of Jesus: 'The meek shall inherit the earth.'"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of fool-ish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket.
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