elegance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 优雅，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：
-- "I cannot admit it," said Sergey Ivanovitch, with his habitual clearness, precision of expression, and elegance of phrase.
-- He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
-- But now her beauty and elegance were just what irritated him.
-- The conversation was a difficult one for the lady of the house at a small table with persons present, like the steward and the architect, belonging to a completely different world, struggling not to be overawed by an elegance to which they were unaccustomed, and unable to sustain a large share in the general conversation.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now and then it was a relief to have the surly intentness of Wickett instead of the elegance of Rippleton Holabird, which demanded from Martin so much painful elegance in turn, at a time when he was sunk beyond sounding in his experimentation.
-- He presented neither picturesque elegance nor a moral message.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were a family of the name of Martin, whomEmma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell very creditably, she believed she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
-- He was reckoned very handsome; his person much admired in general, though not by her, there being a want of elegance of feature which she could not dispense with: but the girl who could be gratified by a Robert Martin's riding about the country to get walnuts for her might very well be conquered by Mr. Elton's admiration.
-- Certainly she had often, especially of late, thought his manners to herself unnecessarily gallant; but it had passed as his way, as a mere error of judgment, of knowledge, of taste, as one proof among others that he had not always lived in the best society, that with all the gentleness of his address, true elegance was sometimes wanting; but, till this very day, she had never, for an instant, suspected it to mean any thing but grateful respect to her as Harriet's friend.
-- When she took in her history, indeed, her situation, as well as her beauty; when she con-sidered what all this elegance was destined to, what she was going to sink from, how she was going to live, it seemed impossible to feel any thing but compassion and respect; es-pecially, if to every well-known particular entitling her to interest, were added the highly probable circumstance of an attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had so naturally start-ed to herself.
-- He agreed to it, but with so quiet a 'Yes,' as inclined her almost to doubt his real concurrence; and yet there must be a very distinct sort of elegance for the fashionable world, if Jane Fairfax could be thought only ordinarily gifted with it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And raisinggood cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquorlike a gentleman were the things that mattered.
-- She was more like her father thanher younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christenedSusan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment.
-- He admired the drawling elegance of the wealthy rice and cotton planters, whorode into Savannah from their moss-hung kingdoms, mounted on thoroughbred horses and followed by the carriages oftheir equally elegant ladies and the wagons of their slaves.
-- She dropped her eyes to her plate and nibbled daintily on a beaten biscuit with an elegance and an utter lack ofappetite that would have won Mammy's approval.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was pretty good at most exercises in which country boys are adepts, but as I was conscious of wanting elegance of style for the Thames,--not to say for other waters,--I at once engaged to place myself under the tuition of the winner of a prize-wherry who plied at our stairs, and to whom I was introduced by my new allies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Say, Professore Mio, a poor gentleman waiting to do homage to elegance and beauty,' remarked Blandois.
-- Blandois accepted the commission with his own free elegance of manner, and swore he would discharge it before he was an hour older.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Moffats were very fashionable, and simple Meg was rather daunted, at first, by the splendor of the house and the elegance of its occupants.
-- Goodness knows I need a little change, for elegance has a bad effect upon my constitution,' returned Jo gruffly, being disturbed by her failure to suit.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They repulsed every attempt of Mrs. Ben-net at conversation, and by so doing threw a languor over the whole party, which was very little relieved by the long speeches of Mr. Collins, who was complimenting Mr. Bing-ley and his sisters on the elegance of their entertainment, and the hospitality and politeness which had marked their behaviour to their guests.
-- 'I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a re-spectable man.
-- Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter.
-- On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with great-er elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
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