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：
-- It was, in fact, the dilapidated and solitary structure in which David had been discovered, and whom he had tolerated in his presence, on those few occa-sions when they met, with the contemptuous indifference of a haughty superiority.
-- The boy answered it with a feeble but contemptuous shout; and immediately a second bullet was sent after him from another part of the cover.
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：
-- He stopped in front of my chair, and stood looking down at me with an expression in which I read a contemptuous amazement.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other stood lounging with his foot upon a chair, and regarded him with a contemptuous sneer.
-- exclaimed Quilp, with another contemptuous look at Sampson, 'always foremost!I say, Sally, he is a yelping, insolent dog to all besides, and most of all, to me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- FOOTNOTES: [Footnote E: A contemptuous diminutive of Liuba.
-- The prosecutor, growling, began to make notes, and shrugged his shoulders in contemptuous surprise.
-- "Your Excellency knows their kind," said the door-keeper, with a contemptuous smile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave me power to keep them back and to look at her: so, she gave a contemptuous toss--but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was so wounded--and left me.
-- But I never thought there was anything low and small in my keeping away from Joe, because I knew she would be contemptuous of him.
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：
-- said Winifred, with slightly contemptuous indifference.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then compre-hend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh,' returned Tom, with contemptuous patronage, 'she's a regular girl.
-- Yet it is an indubitable fact, within the cognizance of this history, that five minutes after he had left the house in the self-same hat, the same descendant of the Scadgerses and connexion by matrimony of the Powlers, shook her right-hand mitten at his portrait, made a contemptuous grimace at that work of art, and said 'Serve you right, you Noodle, and I am glad of it.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact he was al-together rather supercilious and contemptuous of anyone not in his own class.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Arthur looked at it again, he saw, by the reflection of the mirror, Tattycoram stop in passing outside the door, listen to what was going on, and pass away with an angry and contemptuous frown upon her face, that changed its beauty into ugliness.
-- It made such a painful impression upon him to hear her talking in this haughty tone, and to see her patting her contemptuous lips with her fan, that he said very earnestly, 'Believe me, ma'am, this is unjust, a perfectly groundless suspicion.'
-- Mr Clennam thereupon rose, as he had no choice but to do; and Mrs Gowan showed him, to the last, the same look and the same tapped contemptuous lips.
-- She said it with a slur of the word gentleman which was more contemptuous than any emphasis, and walked slowly on.
-- As he followed the direction of her eyes, in rising again, towards Mr Flintwinch's good friend, Mr Blandois, Mr Blandois snapped his finger and thumb with one loud contemptuous snap.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a nice one,' added Sikes, as he surveyed her with a contemptuous air, 'to take up the humane and gen--teel side!A pretty subject for the child, as you call him, to make a friend of!'
-- inquired Tom Chitling, casting a contemptuous look at Oliver.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman, but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it. It was rather a wish of distinction, she believed, which produced his contemptuous treatment of every body, and his general abuse of every thing before him.
-- To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of; and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty which no indignant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it. But one thing may be said for me: even in that horrid state of selfish vanity, I did not know the extent of the injury I meditated, because I did not THEN know what it was to love.
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