dainty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 优雅， 考究，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：
-- Doctors who made great fortunes out of dainty remedies for imagi-nary disorders that never existed, smiled upon their courtly patients in the ante-chambers of Monseigneur.
-- At the gallows and the wheel the axe was a rarity Monsieur 151Paris, as it was the episcopal mode among his brother Pro-fessors of the provinces, Monsieur Orleans, and the rest, to call him, presided in this dainty dress.
-- Shortly, this worn-out murderer descried in the imperfect light one of the carriages of Monseigneur, and, staggering to that gorgeous vehicle, climbed in at the door, and shut himself up to take his rest on its dainty cush-ions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Frou-Frou, excited and over-nervous, had lost the first moment, and several horses had started before her, but before reaching the stream, Vronsky, who was holding in the mare with all his force as she tugged at the bridle, easily overtook three, and there were left in front of him Mahotin's chestnut Gladiator, whose hind-quarters were moving lightly and rhythmically up and down exactly in front of Vronsky, and in front of all, the dainty mare Diana bearing Kuzovlev more dead than alive.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had buck teeth, and on his eye-glasses was a gold chain leading to a dainty hook behind his left ear.
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：
-- Svid-654 Crime and Punishmentriga脙炉lov was smartly dressed in light summer clothes and was particularly dainty in his linen.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dainty is lamed; the near-foot-afore," said Coggan slowly, staring still at the footprints.
-- By this arrangement she could trot Dainty gently all the day, reach Liddy at Yalbury in the evening, and come home to Weatherbury with her whenever they chose so nobody would know she had been to Bath at all.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Good-bye," said the Portuguese, hurrying to the door, as Eugene made his entrance into a dainty little pink-and- gray drawing-room, where luxury seemed nothing more than good taste.
-- The Vicomtesse went to her own room, sat down at a table, and took up a sheet of dainty notepaper.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she departed from her father's house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful andflowing as a woman's body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set highfrom the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; adim, rich house, gracious but aloof.
-- Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frailwoman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.
-- 'Yes,' answered the cat, 'you will enjoy it as much as you would enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of the window.'
-- Early in the morning before the children were awake, she was already up, and when she saw both of them sleeping and looking so pretty, with their plump and rosy cheeks she muttered to herself: 'That will be a dainty mouthful!'
-- Then they tore of her dainty clothing, laid her on a table, and cut her beauti-ful body into pieces, and sprinkled salt upon it.
-- 'Then they tore off her dainty clothing, and cut her beau-tiful body into pieces and sprinkled salt upon it.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, a great table in a great room was soon profusely covered with a superb repast; and the quarantine quarters became bare indeed, remembered among dainty dishes, southern fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Genoa, snow from the mountain tops, and all the colours of the rainbow flashing in the mirrors.
-- He would have found it amply in that gallant brother and that dainty sister, so steeped in mean experiences, and so loftily conscious of the family name; so ready to beg or borrow from the poorest, to eat of anybody's bread, spend anybody's money, drink from anybody's cup and break it afterwards.
-- On their arrival at Mr Blandois' room, a bottle of port wine was ordered by that gallant gentleman; who (crushing every pretty thing he could collect, in the soft disposition of his dainty figure) coiled himself upon the window-seat, while Mr Flintwinch took a chair opposite to him, with the table between them.
-- It was a charming little woman to whom he said it a sprightly little woman, dressed in perfect taste, who came out of a green velvet bower to attend upon him, from posting up some dainty little books of account which one could hardly suppose to be ruled for the entry of any articles more commercial than kisses, at a dainty little shining desk which looked in itself like a sweetmeat.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the Kings' she daily saw all she want-ed, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bou-quets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lav-ished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.
-- Feeling almost happy again, she laid by a few ferns and roses for herself, and quickly made up the rest in dainty bouquets for the breasts, hair, or skirts of her friends, offer-ing them so prettily that Clara, the elder sister, told her she was 'the sweetest little thing she ever saw', and they looked quite charmed with her small attention.
-- She was too tired, sometimes, even to smile, John grew dyspeptic after a course of dainty dishes and ungratefully demanded plain fare.
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