noble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 高尚的； 贵族的， 高贵的n. 贵族，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief?
-- I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
-- And Clerval could aught ill entrench on the noble spirit of Clerval?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots whofight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
-- 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.
-- The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.
-- I had the happiness to know you in former times, and the Drama has ever had a claim which has ever been acknowledged, on the noble and the affluent."
-- Of the conduct of the worldly minded Pumblechook while this was doing, I desire to say no more than it was all addressed to me; and that even when those noble passages were read which remind humanity how it brought nothing into the world and can take nothing out, and how it fleeth like a shadow and never continueth long in one stay, I heard him cough a reservation of the case of a young gentleman who came unexpectedly into large property.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a noble heart that good man has!'
-- 'That would be a noble lodg-ing for us,' said the cock.
-- It is a noble art, for nothing can be hidden from you, when once you understand the stars.'
-- When he found himself safe, he was overjoyed to think that he had got the Water of Life; and as he was going on his way homewards, he passed by the little dwarf, who, when he saw the sword and the loaf, said, 'You have made a noble prize; with the sword you can at a blow slay whole armies, and the bread will never fail you.'
-- And young and old, noble and squire, gentle and simple, came at once on the summons; and among the rest came the friendly dwarf, with the sug-arloaf hat, and a new scarlet cloak.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not al-ways of noble birth, or liberal education.
-- The heat I had con-tracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly ex-tinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
-- The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth, are provided with grave and learned professors, and their sev-eral deputies.
-- And thus he continued on, while my colour came and went several times, with indignation, to hear our noble country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honour, and truth, the pride and envy of the world, so 129contemptuously treated.
-- The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bounderby,' said Jem, turning with a smile to Louisa, 'is a noble animal in a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in which a conventional hack like myself works.'
-- 'But oh, my friends and brothers!Oh, men and Englishmen, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown!What shall we say of that man that working-man, that I should find it necessary so to libel the glorious name who, being practically and well acquainted with the grievances and wrongs of you, the injured pith and marrow of this land, and having heard you, with a noble and majestic unanimity that will make Tyrants tremble, resolve for to subscribe to the funds of the United Aggregate Tribunal, and to abide by the injunctions issued by that body for your benefit, whatever they may be what, I ask you, will you say of that working-man, since such I must acknowledge him to be, who, at such a time, deserts his post, and sells his flag; who, at such a time, turns a traitor and a craven and a recreant, who, at such a time, is not ashamed to make to you the dastardly and humiliating avowal that he will hold himself aloof, and will not be one of those associated in the gallant stand for Freedom and for Right?'
-- But he had not spoken out of his own will and desire; and he felt it in his heart a noble return for his late injurious treatment to be faithful to the last to those who had repudiated him.
-- CHAPTER X. MRS. SPARSIT'S STAIRCASEMrs. Sparsit's nerves being slow to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay of some weeks in duration at Mr. Bounderby's retreat, where, notwithstanding her anchorite turn of mind based upon her becoming consciousness of her altered station, she resigned herself with noble fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover, and feeding on the fat of the land.
-- A thief!A plunderer!A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative!Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'
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