civil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 公民的， 市民的； 民间的； 民用的； 有礼貌的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Military officers destitute of mili-tary knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all near-ly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You said rights," said Sergey Ivanovitch, waiting till Pestsov had finished, "meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament..." "Undoubtedly."
-- They would be justified in repeating hypocritically civil speeches in the presence of the painter, and pitying him and laughing at him when they were alone again.
-- He thinks it's the best possible form, and so I'm obliged to be civil to him."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gradually annexed province after province, purchasing them of the native chiefs, whom it seldom paid, and appointed the governor-general and his subordinates, civil and military.
-- It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had letters from the Public Health service; from an enterprising Midwestern college which desired to make him a Doctor of Civil Law; from medical schools and societies which begged him to address them.
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：
-- He knew that the flat had been occupied by a German clerk in the civil service, and his family.
-- 28 Crime and PunishmentAnd what's more, Ivan Ivanitch Klopstock the civil counsel-lor have you heard of him? has not to this day paid her for the half-dozen linen shirts she made him and drove her roughly away, stamping and reviling her, on the pretext that the shirt collars were not made like the pattern and were put in askew.
-- He has been occupied for many years in conducting civil and commer-cial litigation, and only the other day he won an important case.
-- And there was another of them on a steamer last week used the most disgraceful language to the respectable family of a civil councillor, his wife and daughter.
-- said Nikodim Fomitch to Ilya Petrovitch in a civil and friendly tone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were welcomed by a very civil woman in a white apron, whomI had seen curtseying at the door when I was on Ham's back, abouta quarter of a mile off.
-- I have already some acquaintance withthe law- as a defendant on civil process- and I shall immediatelyapply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent andremarkable of our English jurists.
-- The last time I was inthe Commons, a civil able-bodied person in a white apron pouncedout upon me from a doorway, and whispering the word 'Marriage-licence' in my ear, was with great difficulty prevented from takingme up in his arms and lifting me into a proctor's.
-- For myself, my Canterbury Pilgrimage has done much;imprisonment on civil process, and want, will soon do more.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.
-- Mr. Knightley, who had nothing of ceremony about him, was offering by his short, decided answers, an amusing contrast to the protracted apologies and civil hesitations of the oth-er.
-- All this spoken extremely fast obliged Miss Bates to stop for breath; and Emma said something very civil about the excellence of Miss Fairfax's handwriting.
-- There is nobody half so attentive and civil as you are.
-- They had been arrived only a few minutes, and Mr. Weston had scarcely finished his explanation of Frank's being a day be-fore his time, and her father was yet in the midst of his very civil welcome and congratulations, when she appeared, to have her share of surprize, introduction, and pleasure.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And was ever anything so meanly done as what I did to skulk away like that from a man who was only civil and kind!"
-- But you know well enough how it is, and who she is that I like too well, and feel too much like a fool about to be civil to her!"
-- It seemed worth while to be civil to Boldwood.
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