cautious是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (of) 小心的， 谨慎的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a few minutes, some mortar and dust came dropping down, which he averted his face to avoid; and in it, and in the old wood-ashes, and in a crevice in the chim-310 A tale of two citiesney into which his weapon had slipped or wrought itself, he groped with a cautious touch.
-- The same cautious counsel directed every step that lay before him, and had prepared every inch of his road.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will NOT be middle-aged and cautious and monogamic and moral!It's against my religion.
-- He was equally distasteful of the gallant Martin of two days ago and the prosy cautious Martin of tonight.
-- He Published one cautious paper on phage in plague, which was mentioned in numerous scientific journals.
-- He gave flavor to the ordinary cautious voyage of the St. Buryan, but he made a mistake.
-- He had an advantage over normal cautious humanity in not caring whether he lived or died, he who sat with the dead, talking to Leora and Sondelius, to Ira Hinkley and Oliver Marchand, to Inchcape Jones and a shadowy horde of blackmen with lifted appealing hands.
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：
-- He was cautious in his answer, and said that, of course, as he could not get on without a secretary, it would be better to be paying a salary to a relation than to a stranger, if only the former were fitted for the duties (as though there could be doubt of your being fitted!)
-- Anyway, he suddenly heard something like the cautious touch of a hand on the lock and the rustle of a skirt at the very door.
-- Chapter V his was a gentleman no longer young, of a stiff and port-Tly appearance, and a cautious and sour countenance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were very wrong before; we will be cautious now. He is your supe-416 Emmarior, no doubt, and there do seem objections and obstacles of a very serious nature; but yet, Harriet, more wonderful things have taken place, there have been matches of greater disparity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Aha!here is a magnificent _soupe-au-rama_," cried Poiret as Christophe came in bearing the soup with cautious heed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not for Hood the cautious tactics of General Johnston.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And we were very cautious indeed,--more cautious than before, if that were possible,--and I for my part never went near Chinks's Basin, except when I rowed by, and then I only looked at Mill Pond Bank as I looked at anything else.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Your thervant, Thquire,' was his cautious salutation as they passed in.
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：
-- But when he had done his slow, cautious beating of his bounds it was nearly a five-mile walk he was tired.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his offering his hand to Mrs Gowan to lead her down the staircase, she retained Little Dorrit's hand in hers, with a cautious pressure, and said, 'No, thank you.
-- 'Aye, aye, aye!That's a cautious fellow.'
-- 'He is a very cautious fellow indeed,' returned Arthur.
-- They both appeared to derive a larger amount of satisfaction from the cautious character of Mr Pancks, than was quite intelligible, judged by the surface of their conversation.
-- When it was almost midnight, and the prison had long been quiet, a cautious creak came up the stairs, and a cautious tap of a key was given at his door.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
-- By the time this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three alert hands.
-- "Captain Ahab," said the reddening mate, moving further into the cabin, with a daring so strangely respectful and cautious that it almost seemed not only every way seeking to avoid the slightest outward manifestation of itself, but within also seemed more than half distrustful of itself; "A better man than I might well pass over in thee what he would quickly enough resent in a younger man; aye, and in a happier, Captain Ahab."
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