stale是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 食品不新鲜的; 陈旧的, 过度劳累而表现不佳的; 陈腐的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shriv-elled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the re-past; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste it was like a medicinal draught.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she was not a girl who had gone the stale round of balls till every face in the ballroom was familiar and tiresome.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.
-- Ardently, and quite humorlessly, as he sat stiffly in a stale Pullman chaircar with his feet up on his suit-case, he pictured himself wearing a club-tie (presumably first acquiring the tie and the club), playing golf in plus-fours, and being entertaining about dear old R. G. and incredibly witty about dear old Latham Ireland's aged Rolls-Royce.
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：
-- She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it.
-- There, too, the heat was stifling and there was a sickening smell of fresh paint and stale oil from the newly decorated rooms.
-- A candle was burning down on the table; there were wine-glasses, a near-ly empty bottle of vodka, bread and cucumber, and glasses with the dregs of stale tea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never shall forget the waking next morning; the being cheerfuland fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed downby the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance.
-- I was so young and childish, and so little qualified- how could I beotherwise?to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, thatoften, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I couldnot resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastry-cooks' doors, and spent in that, the money I should have kept formy dinner.
-- While he was so engaged, he asked me what I wouldtake with it; and on my replying 'Half a pint of sherry,' thought it afavourable opportunity, I am afraid, to extract that measure ofwine from the stale leavings at the bottoms of several smalldecanters.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley and Harriet Smith! It was a union to distance every wonder of the kind. The attachment of Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax became commonplace, threadbare, stale in the comparison, exciting no surprize, presenting no disparity, affording nothing to be said or thought. Mr.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weren't I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, in spite of these stale horrors, the sitting- room is as charming and as delicately perfumed as a boudoir, when compared with the adjoining dining-room.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, that dark road where men went by like ghosts, voices stilled, only the muffled tramping of feet on soft dirt, thefaint clicking of bridles and the straining creak of leather!And, oh, that dreadful moment when the sick horse balkedand cavalry and light cannon rumbled past in the darkness, past where they sat breathless, so close she could almostreach out and touch them, so close she could smell the stale sweat on the soldiers' bodies!
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：
-- The very stale air of the col-liery was better than oxygen to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters.
-- He did not shine in company; he had not very much to say for himself; he was a reserved man, with a broad, overhanging, watchful head, that particular kind of dull red colour in his cheeks which is rather stale than fresh, and a somewhat uneasy expression about his coat-cuffs, as if they were in his confidence, and had reasons for being anxious to hide his hands.
-- It was so like handing green meat into the cage of a dull imprisoned bird, and John had so evidently brought the little basket as a handful of fresh relief from the stale hot paving-stones and bricks of the jail, that Clennam said, with a smile, 'It was very kind of you to think of putting this between the wires; but I cannot even get this down to-day.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner had the guest paid the usual stale com-pliments and bowed himself out, than Jenny, under pretense of asking an important question, informed Mr. Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Charlotte, bursting into a hearty laugh, in which she was joined by Noah; after which they both looked scornfully at poor Oliver Twist, as he sat shivering on the box in the coldest corner of the room, and ate the stale pieces which had been specially reserved for him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He shall become greater than I, even I, Machua Appa!He shall follow the new trail, and the stale trail, and the mixed trail, with a clear eye!He shall take no harm in the Keddah when he runs under their bellies to rope the wild tuskers; and if he slips before the feet of the charging bull elephant, the bull elephant shall know who he is and shall not crush him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place smelled of the oil of the machines and the new leather-- a combination which, added to the stale odours of the building, was not pleasant even in cold weather.
-- When in the flush of such feelings he heard his wife's voice, when the insistent demands of matrimony recalled him from dreams to a stale practice, how it grated.
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