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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But notwithstanding this, the viands at the meal were both dainty and varied.
-- A succession of low hills rich in dust, a long stretch of what they call in Australia "bush," several prairies covered with a small prickly bush, considered a great dainty by the ovine tribe, embraced many miles.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her eyes and hair were of the same rich hazel colour, and her cheeks, though considerably freckled, were flushed with the exquisite bloom of the brunette, the dainty pink which lurks at the heart of the sulphur rose.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was I, Achilles, who had the making of you; I loved you with all my heart: for you would eat neither at home nor when you had gone out elsewhere, till I had first set you upon my knees, cut up the dainty morsel that you were to eat, and held the wine-cup to your lips.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping from their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty- pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slap-jacks, well buttered, and garnished with hon-ey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were dull pigs too, turning up the ground in search of dainty food, and grunting their monotonous grumblings as they prowled about, or crossed each other in their quest; plump pigeons skimming round the roof or strutting on the eaves; and ducks and geese, far more graceful in their own conceit, waddling awkwardly about the edges of the pond or sailing glibly on its surface.
-- If Mr Quilp spoke figuratively, and meant to imply that the air breathed by Miss Sally Brass was sweetened and rarefied by that dainty creature, he had doubtless good reason for what he said.
-- Overpowered, notwithstanding his late prolonged slumbers, by the fatigues of the last few days, the dwarf lost no time in creeping to his dainty house, and was soon dreaming in his hammock.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We soon met others of the dainty ones, laughing and dancing in the sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy's dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May's painted vases that was one thorn.
-- As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I dare say the boy isn't too dainty to eat 'em--are you, boy?'
-- I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this place also I had my grapes growing, which I prin-cipally depended on for my winter store of raisins, and which I never failed to preserve very carefully, as the best and most agreeable dainty of my whole diet; and indeed they were not only agreeable, but medicinal, wholesome, nourishing, and refreshing to the last degree.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dainty slippers and stockings, the delicately frilled skirts and petticoats, the laces, ribbons, hair-combs, purses, all touched her with individual desire, and she felt keenly the fact that not any of these things were in the range of her purchase.
-- How would she look in this, how charming that would make her!She came upon the corset counter and paused in rich reverie as she noted the dainty concoctions of colour and lace there displayed.
-- Her poor clothes were neat, and she held her head unconsciously in a dainty way.
-- It came to him as if they were alone, and he could hardly restrain the tears for sorrow over the hopeless, pathetic, and yet dainty and appealing woman whom he loved.
-- She seemed to have so many dainty little things which Carrie had not.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food.
-- "You see," observed Geppetto, "that I was right when I told you that one must not be too fussy and too dainty about food.
-- The Fairy, who was waiting at the door of the house, lifted the poor little Marionette in her arms, took him to a dainty room with mother-of-pearl walls, put him to bed, and sent immediately for the most famous doctors of the neighborhood to come to her.
-- Fancy how he felt when he noticed that overnight those two dainty organs had become as long as shoe brushes!
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