contemptuous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 轻视的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression.
-- "Quite so, where you please," said Ryabinin with contemptuous dignity, as though wishing to make it felt that others might be in difficulties as to how to behave, but that he could never be in any difficulty about anything.
-- But for this prince he was an inferior, and his contemptuous and indulgent attitude to him revolted him.
-- At the mention of letters the lawyer pursed up his lips, and gave utterance to a thin little compassionate and contemptuous sound.
-- "Why, upon my word, sir," the carpenter said with a contemptuous smile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Mr. Fogg, darting a contemptuous look at the ruffian.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of working in a laboratory at night, alone, absorbed, contemptuous of academic success and of popular classes.
-- and however contemptuous he might be, however much he strove for ignoring pride, their nibbling reduced him from arrogant scientist to an insecure, raw-nerved, shrinking old man.
-- He was like a fabulous painter, so contemptuous of popular taste that after a lifetime of creation he should destroy everything he has done, lest it be marred and mocked by the dull eyes of the crowd.
-- Twyford looked doubtful, his mother looked delicately shocked, and the five sons beefily looked nothing at all, while Martin raged on, trying to convey his vision of the barbarian, the ascetic, the contemptuous acolyte of science.
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：
-- For a whole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal, and it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go to church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and even remarks made aloud about us.
-- Here his rags did not attract contemptuous attention, and one could walk about in any attire without scandalising people.
-- And he cast a contemptuous glance at Raskolnikov.
-- She was struck too by the business- like, dry and even contemptuous menacing tone of Pyotr Petrovitch.
-- And yet he was ashamed even before Sonia, whom he tortured because of it with his contemptuous rough manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said my aunt, with a perfect shake onthe contemptuous interjection.
-- There is nodoubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spooney; but therewas a purity of heart in all this still, that prevents my having quitea contemptuous recollection of it, let me laugh as I may.
-- He blew aslight, contemptuous breath, as if he blew himself away.
-- said Rosa Dartle, with a contemptuous laugh, 'I see her at last!
-- Here,' she said,stretching out her hand with her contemptuous laugh, and lookingdown upon the prostrate girl, 'is a worthy cause of divisionbetween lady-mother and gentleman-son; of grief in a house whereshe wouldn't have been admitted as a kitchen-girl; of anger, andrepining, and reproach.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was, of course, the object of their joint dislike. When they had nothing else to say, it must be always easy to be-gin abusing Miss Woodhouse; and the enmity which they dared not shew in open disrespect to her, found a broader vent in contemptuous treatment of Harriet.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bore the contemptuous glances of the servants, who had seen him cross the court on foot, with the cold fury of a man who knows that he will succeed some day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Casting contemptuous glances at them, Scarlett thought that they looked like a clump of fat crows.
-- To Scarlett, he seemed as exhilaratedand contemptuous as if he got strong pleasure from the situation, as if he welcomed the inferno they were approaching.
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