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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Paganel consulted his maps, and when he found any of those streams not marked, which often happened, all the fire of a geographer burned in his veins, and he would exclaim, with a charming air of vexation:"A river which hasn't a name is like having no civil standing.
-- "Yes, civil war between the Paraguayans and Buenos Ayriens," replied the Sergeant.
-- The Patagonian was either unaware of, or had forgotten that civil war was decimating the two parts of the republic—a war which ultimately required the intervention of Brazil.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At some moments Lebedeff was sure that right was on their side; at others he tried uneasily to remember various cheering and reassuring articles of the Civil Code.
-- He had served, at first, in one of the civil departments, had then attended to matters connected with the local government of provincial towns, and had of late been a corresponding member of several important scientific so-cieties.
-- She merely looked closely at Evgenie for a minute, curious perhaps as to whether civil or mili-tary clothes became him best, then turned away and paid no more attention to him or his costume.
-- The general finished by informing him that Evgenie's uncle was head of one of the civil service departments, and rich, very rich, and a gourmand.
-- He had been a provincial doctor; he had a civil appointment, and had no sooner taken it up than intrigues began.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are still young you might be the youngest of my own children still you have spoken wisely and have counselled the chief of the Achaeans not without discre-tion; nevertheless I am older than you and I will tell you everything; therefore let no man, not even King Agamem-non, disregard my saying, for he that foments civil discord is a clanless, hearthless outlaw.
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：
-- A large, civil cocked hat, like those worn by clergymen within the last thirty years, surmounted the whole, furnishing dignity to a good-natured and somewhat vacant countenance, that ap-parently needed such artificial aid, to support the gravity of some high and extraordinary trust.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not consider that the cigars and whisky he consumed at my expense (he always refused cocktails, since he was practically a teetotaller), and the few dollars, borrowed with a civil air of conferring a favour upon me, that passed from my pocket to his, were in any way equivalent to the entertainment he afforded me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very cold, indeed, sir,' replied the mistress, in her most civil tones, and dropping a curtsey as she spoke.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Mery- ton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, un- shackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
-- 'YOU began the evening well, Charlotte,' said Mrs. Ben-net with civil self-command to Miss Lucas.
-- To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley's, she could not make a very fa-vourable answer.
-- Mr. Bingley was unaffectedly civil in his answer, and forced his younger sister to be civil also, and say what the occa-sion required.
-- In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Mery-ton.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Secondly, there was the account of four years more, while they kept the effects in their hands, before the gov-ernment claimed the administration, as being the effects of a person not to be found, which they called civil death; and the balance of this, the value of the plantation increasing, amounted to nineteen thousand four hundred and forty-six crusadoes, being about three thousand two hundred and forty moidores.
-- As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift and light, so he has two par-ticular qualities, which generally are the rule of his actions; first, as to men, who are not his proper prey (he does not usually attempt them, except they first attack him, unless he be excessively hungry, which it is probable might now be the case, the ground being covered with snow), if you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you; but then you must take care to be very civil to him, and give him the road, for he is a very nice gentleman; he will not go a step out of his way for a prince; nay, if you are really afraid, your best way is to look another way and keep going on; for sometimes if you stop, and stand still, and look stead-fastly at him, he takes it for an affront; but if you throw or toss anything at him, though it were but a bit of stick as big as your finger, he thinks himself abused, and sets all other business aside to pursue his revenge, and will have satisfac-tion in point of honour - that is his first quality: the next is, if he be once affronted, he will never leave you, night or day, till he has his revenge, but follows at a good round rate till he overtakes you.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your behaviour to him is perfectly cordial, and if THAT were your opinion, I am sure you could never be civil to him."
-- Lady Middleton had sent a very civil message by him, denoting her intention of waiting on Mrs. Dashwood as soon as she could be assured that her visit would be no inconvenience; and as this message was answered by an invitation equally polite, her ladyship was introduced to them the next day.
-- Mrs. Palmer, on the contrary, who was strongly endowed by nature with a turn for being uniformly civil and happy, was hardly seated before her admiration of the parlour and every thing in it burst forth.
-- "They mean no less to be civil and kind to us now," said Elinor, "by these frequent invitations, than by those which we received from them a few weeks ago.
-- Elinor made her a civil reply, and they walked on for a few minutes in silence.
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