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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You'll be keeping civil tongues in your heads this day, or I'll be taking me crop to you," warned Gerald.
-- She had smiled with timid liking when she greeted Scarlett and told her how pretty her green dress was, andScarlett had been hard put to be even civil in reply, so violently did she want to speak alone with Ashley.
-- "I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.
-- The ves-sel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of 93Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
-- He confined the knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and criminal causes; with some other obvious topics, which are not worth considering.
-- As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
-- All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties, and have more than once occasioned civil wars; the last whereof was happily put an end to by this prince's grand-father, in a general compo-sition; and the militia, then settled with common consent, has been ever since kept in the strictest duty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, he took it pretty well; he was civil enough.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, however, but a civil servant, a magistrate, the governor of the island--Baron Trampe.
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：
-- Since he had been an officer for some years, and had mixed among the other officers and civil servants, with their wives and fami-lies, he had lost all ambition to 'get on'.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, sir,' said Mrs Plornish, a civil woman, 'not to deceive you, he's gone to look for a job.'
-- If he did not avail himself of this latter civility, it was only because he had lost the relish for it; inasmuch as he took everything else he could get, and would say at times, 'Extremely civil person, Chivery; very attentive man and very respectful.
-- 'Edmund,' said the lady from the doorway, 'I hope you have explained, or are explaining, to the satisfaction of this gentleman and his family that the civil landlord is not to blame?'
-- Pray do everything on my behalf that is civil to Mr and Mrs Gowan, for we will ha we will certainly notice them.'
-- 'Painfully aware, Miss Dorrit, I am sure,' said Flora, 'that to propose an adjournment to any place to one so far removed by fortune and so courted and caressed by the best society must ever appear intruding even if not a pie-shop far below your present sphere and a back-parlour though a civil man but if for the sake of Arthur cannot overcome it more improper now than ever late Doyce and Clennam one last remark I might wish to make one last explanation I might wish to offer perhaps your good nature might excuse under pretence of three kidney ones the humble place of conversation.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't want you to do anything but be civil to him and help to the pudding.
-- 'After doing the civil all round, and airing our best bon-net, we shall astonish you by the elegant hospitalities of our mansion, the brilliant society we shall draw about us, and the beneficial influence we shall exert over the world at large.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way.
-- His frontispiece, boats attacking Sperm Whales, though no doubt calculated to excite the civil scepticism of some parlor men, is admirably correct and life-like in its general effect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come, come, Sikes,' said the Jew appealing to him in a remonstratory tone, and motioning towards the boys, who were eagerly attentive to all that passed; 'we must have civil words; civil words, Bill.'
-- 'Civil words!'
-- 'Civil words, you villain!
-- 'There's Bill Sikes in the passage with nobody to do the civil to him; and you sleeping there, as if you took laudanum with your meals, and nothing stronger.
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