feminine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 女性的； 娇柔的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Aglaya's sisters had mere- ly been pumping Varia for news while pretending to impart information; or perhaps, again, they had been unable to re- sist the feminine gratification of teasing a friend for, after all this time, they could scarcely have helped divining the aim of her frequent visits.
-- Varia had guessed that with her true feminine instinct.
-- One of these women so despised the other, and so longed to express her contempt for her (perhaps she had only come for that very purpose, as Rogojin said next day), that howso-ever fantastical was the other woman, howsoever afflicted her spirit and disturbed her understanding, no precon-ceived idea of hers could possibly stand up against that deadly feminine contempt of her rival.
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：
-- She was often defeated in her purpose, by encountering their watchful eyes, when it became necessary to feign an alarm she did not feel, and occupy the limb by some gesture of feminine apprehen-sion.
-- demanded Cora, still main-taining a secret ascendancy over the fierce native by the collected and feminine dignity of her presence.
-- 'Tis nothing,' she answered, refusing his support with feminine reserve.
-- The compass of their voices, particularly that of the youth, was wonderful extending from the deepest bass to tones that were even feminine in softness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The houseseemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaksand screams rose and fell.
-- Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed atthe chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forgetits plainness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Mrs. Gradgrind, if she said anything on the subject, she would come a little way out of her wrappers, like a feminine dormouse, and say:'Good gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Jupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again, about her tiresome letters!Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.
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：
-- She was too feminine to be quite smart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, Mr Meagles, say no more about it now it's over,' urged a cheerful feminine voice.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had a young friend who set up housekeeping with six sheets, but she had finger bowls for company and that satisfied her,' said Mrs. March, patting the damask tablecloths, with a truly feminine appreciation of their fineness.
-- Jo valued goodness highly, but she also possessed a most feminine respect for intellect, and a little discovery which she made about the Professor added much to her regard for him.
-- He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neck-ties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.
-- In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as math-ematics, and the the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names, but she kept these feminine ideas to herself, and when John paused, shook her head and said with what she thought diplomatic ambiguity, 'Well, I really don't see what we are coming to.'
-- If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beau-ty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted lit-tle lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.
-- Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise of Charley's laughter, and the voice of Miss Betsy, who opportunely arri ved to throw water over her friend, and perform other feminine offices for the promotion of her recovery, might have kept many people awake under more happy circumstances than those in which Oliver was placed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made the average feminine distinction between clothes, putting worth, goodness, and distinction in a dress suit, and leaving all the unlovely qualities and those beneath notice in overalls and jumper.
-- He had just enough of the feminine love of dress to be a good judge--not of intellect, but of clothes.
-- She knew she was going too far, but her feminine love of finery prevailed.
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