absent-minded是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 心不在焉的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I didn't mean to ask you any of these questions; I was thinking of something quite dif-ferent!But my head is heavy, and I seem so absent-minded nowadays!Well, good-bye I can't remember what I want-ed to say good-bye!'
-- She was absent-minded to a degree, and an-swered at cross purposes, and sometimes not at all.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was absent-minded in the laboratory, that fatal next day.
-- As they entered the bar of the Grand Hotel, with its paintings of lovely but absent-minded ladies, its mirrors, its thick marble rail along a mahogany bar, he blurted: "Well, I got mine, too.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's so absent-minded and goodnatured, he lets those boys ride over him roughshod.
-- Lifting his hand to his head, the absent-minded Profes-sor gravely felt and removed the little cocked hat, looked at it a minute, and then threw back his head and laughed like a merry bass viol.
-- Mr. Bhaer's face had lost the absent-minded expression, and looked all alive with inter-est in the present moment, actually young and handsome, she thought, forgetting to compare him with Laurie, as she usually did strange men, to their great detriment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
-- For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
-- Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosophers to task, upbraiding them with not feeling sufficient "interest" in the voyage; half-hinting that they are so hopelessly lost to all honorable ambition, as that in their secret souls they would rather not see whales than otherwise.
-- Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They was still a minute thinking; then the king says, kind of absent-minded like: 'Mf!And we reckoned the NIGGERS stole it!'
-- Then we heard steps on the stairs, and blowed out our light and hid; and here comes the old man, with a candle in one hand and a bundle of stuff in t'other, looking as absent-minded as year before last.
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