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。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses: somebody must go,' murmured Mrs. Heathcliff, more kindly than I expected.
-- I gave due inward applause to every object, and then I remembered how old Earnshaw used to come in when all was tidied, and call me a cant lass, and slip a shilling into my hand as a Christmas box; and from that I went on to think of his fondness for Heathcliff, and his dread lest he should suffer neglect after death had removed him: and that naturally led me to consider the poor lad's situation now, and from singing I changed my mind to crying.
-- Well, you must allow me to leap over some three years; during that space Mrs. Earnshaw No, no, I'll allow nothing of the sort!Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two carters constantly passed in and out of the exhibition-room, under various disguises, protesting aloud that the sight was better worth the money than anything they had beheld in all their lives, and urging the bystanders, with tears in their eyes, not to neglect such a brilliant gratification.
-- 'Through all the misery that followed this union; through all the cold neglect and undeserved reproach; through all the poverty he brought upon her; through all the struggles of their daily life, too mean and pitiful to tell, but dreadful to endure; she toiled on, in the deep devotion of her spirit, and in her better nature, as only women can.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is unpardonable neglect on my part," said Nekhludoff.
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：
-- None can say they have ever known me to neglect my gifts!I am thankful that, though my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syl-lable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.'
-- 'I may have been rash in pressing his consent in a mo-ment of much embarrassment, but I would have proved to him, that however others might neglect him in his strait his children at least were faithful.'
-- Le Renard was too skillful to neglect his advantage.
-- We look back at this ignorance, or infatuation, whichever it may be called, with wonder, knowing that the neglect of an eminence, whose difficulties, like those of Mount Defiance, have been so greatly exaggerated, would, at the present time, prove fatal to the reputation of the engineer who had planned the works at their base, or to that of the general whose lot it was to defend them.
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