neglect是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 忽视, 忽略; 疏忽, 玩忽; n. (U) 疏忽, 玩忽，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer, in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hun-ger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds?'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not neglect his patients but certainly he failed to appear in the stores, at the poker games.
-- "Then there's another--this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
-- You're a rotten husband!You neglect me absolutely.
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：
-- It's all illness, Ro-dion Romanovitch!You have begun to neglect your illness.
-- How glad he would have been to be free from some cares, the neglect of which would have threatened him with complete, inevitable ruin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am growing great in Latin verses, and neglect thelaces of my boots.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingrati-tude.
-- She depended on the evil feelings of the Eltons for supplying all the discipline of pointed neglect that could be farther requisite. Harriet rational, Frank Churchill not too much in love, and Mr. Knightley not wanting to quarrel with her, how very happy a summer must be before her!
-- He owed it to her, to risk any thing that might be involved in an unwelcome in-terference, rather than her welfare; to encounter any thing, rather than the remembrance of neglect in such a cause.
-- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fair-ly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situa-tion, low and sheltered its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up. The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many com-436 Emmafortable, and one or two handsome rooms. It was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding. Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably.
-- I doubted it more the next day on Box Hill; when, provoked by such conduct on my side, such shameful, insolent neglect of her, and such apparent devo-tion to Miss W., as it would have been impossible for any woman of sense to endure, she spoke her resentment in a form of words perfectly intelligible to me. In short, my dear madam, it was a quarrel blameless on her side, abomi-nable on mine; and I returned the same evening to Richmond, though I might have staid with you till the next morning, merely because I would be as angry with her as possible.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the sensation was so pronounced that her instinct on two or three occasions was merely to walk as a queen among these gods of the fallow, like a little sister of a little Jove, and to neglect closing prices altogether.
-- All the night he had been feeling that the neglect he was labouring to repair was abnormal and isolated the only instance of the kind within the circuit of the county.
-- But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy's neglect was more than ordinarily evident.
-- "'Tis a talent the Lord has mercifully bestowed upon us, and we ought not to neglect it.
-- The strange neglect which had produced this ruin and waste became the subject of whispered talk among all the people round; and it was elicited from one of Boldwood's men that forgetfulness had nothing to do with it, for he had been reminded of the danger to his corn as many times and as persistently as inferiors dared to do.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me 55also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time.
-- I then thought that my father would be unjust if he as-cribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, sothe County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stem discipline she gave the colts she bred.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious peo-ple to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have en-sued, if his imperial majesty had not provided, by several proclamations and orders of state, against this inconve-niency.
-- Returning back to his own vessel, he was charged with neglect of duty, and the ship given to a favourite page of Publicola, the vice-admiral; whereupon he retired to a poor farm at a great distance from Rome, and there ended his life.'
-- I myself heard him give directions, that one of his pages should be whipped, whose turn it was to give notice about washing the floor after an execution, but -maliciously had omitted it; by which neglect a young lord of great hopes, coming to an audience, was unfortunately poi-soned, although the king at that time had no design against his life.
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