indifference是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 冷淡, 不关心,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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She was not at all inclined to draw a hard-and-fast line, or to take umbrage at his sending for them to the Maison Vauquer; yet, inasmuch as these visits explained her boarder's indifference to 莽卢卢13 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 her, she went so far (at the end of the second year) as to speak of him as an "ugly old wretch."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
-- Her graceful figure and her beautiful face expressed a self-possessed indifference to the wild heat of the other, that was almost cruel.
-- said Estella, preserving her attitude of indifference as she leaned against the great chimney-piece and only moving her eyes; "do you reproach me for being cold?
-- "It is quite true," she replied, referring to him with the indifference of utter contempt.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 143 I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe, in those solitary walks, that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me, but would hop about within a yard's distance, looking for worms and other food, with as much indifference and security as if no creature at all were near them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no carelessness, no languor, no idle curiosity; none of the many shades of indifference to be seen in all other assemblies, visible for one moment there.
-- He had established a confidence with her, that absolutely turned upon her indifference towards her husband, and the absence, now and at all times, of any congeniality between them.
-- However, still true to his conviction that indifference was the genuine high-breeding (the only conviction he had), he seized this crisis as the opportunity for ordering candles and a newspaper.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I made it a point to agree with the Professor in everything; but I envied the perfect indifference of Hans, who, without taking any such trouble about the cause and effect, went blindly onwards wherever destiny chose to lead him.
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:
-- An inward dread, an emptiness, an indifference to everything gradually spread in her soul.
-- His had a cold, ugly look of dislike and contempt, and indifference to what would happen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He very briefly directed the placing of Monsieur Rigaud in the midst of the party, put himself with consummate indifference at their head, gave the word 'march!'
-- Have the kindness to advise me, a total stranger, where, and money is a matter of perfect indifference until to-morrow.
-- 'When you asked me if I will see him, my dear,' said Fanny, almost as well composed in the graceful indifference of her attitude as Mrs Merdle herself, 'what do you mean?'
-- Then, suddenly changing her indifference into a burning restlessness, she added, 'You talk about the clever men, you little thing!It's all very fine and easy to talk about the clever men; but where are they?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Your indifference is half af-fectation, and a good stirring up would prove it.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference of his very strange.
-- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
-- If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.
-- Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invulnerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.
-- Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Such matters keep well, and, like good wine, often double their value in course of time,' answered the matron, still preserving the resolute indifference she had assumed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his com-posure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.
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