discreetly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adv. 慎重地，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not caring to venture within range of such missles again, the boy discreetly sent in his stead the first cause of the interruption, who now presented herself at the door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again he smiled discreetly his almond-oil smile.
-- Chapter 621 In the church there was all Moscow, all the friends and relations; and during the ceremony of plighting troth, in the brilliantly lighted church, there was an incessant flow of discreetly subdued talk in the circle of gaily dressed women and girls, and men in white ties, frockcoats, and uniforms.
-- All her arrangements had to be modified because they could not be carried out, and they were modified by Korney, Alexey Alexandrovitch's valet, who, though no one was aware of the fact, now managed Karenin's household, and quietly and discreetly reported to his master while he was dressing all it was necessary for him to know.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the manner of the speech, no less than the matter, was so fiery,that Miss Murdstone, without a word in answer, discreetly put herarm through her brother's, and walked haughtily out of thecottage; my aunt remaining in the window looking after them;prepared, I have no doubt, in case of the donkey's reappearance, tocarry her threat into instant execution.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Upon my word!you answer as discreetly as she could do herself.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mademoiselle waited, and discreetly made her inclination, and her greeting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no reproaches need be apprehended.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paused discreetly at a distance when Brooke disappeared, but he could both see and hear, and be-ing a bachelor, enjoyed the prospect mightily.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But granting all this; yet, regarded discreetly and coolly, seems it not but a mad idea, this; that in the broad boundless ocean, one solitary whale, even if encountered, should be thought capable of individual recognition from his hunter, even as a white-bearded Mufti in the thronged thoroughfares of Constantinople?
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