honesty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 诚实， 正直，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：
-- "Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let it be observed that the Bank of England reposes a touching confidence in the honesty of the public.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was all so much easier, now that he was partly freed from the tyrannical honesty of Gottliebism, from the unswerving quest for causes which, as it drove through layer below layer, seemed ever farther from the bottommost principles, from the intolerable strain of learning day by day how much he did not know.
-- "Stealing--" "Rats!What's stealing!You're always making fun of these preachers that talk about Sin and Truth and Honesty and all those words that've been used so much they don't mean a darn' thing and-- I don't care!Daws Hunziker, the old man's son, he told me his dad said you could be a millionaire, and then you keep us strapped like this, and Mom sick-- Let me tell you, back in Mohalis Mom used to slip me a couple of dollars almost every week and-- I'm tired of it!If you're going to keep me in rags, I'm going to cut out college!"
-- He told himself that however much he might relieve the sick, essentially he was a business man, in rivalry with Dr. Winter of Leopolis and Dr. Hesselink of Groningen; that though they might be honest, honesty and healing were less their purpose than making money; that to get rid of avoidable disease and produce a healthy population would be the worst thing in the world for them; and that they must all be replaced by public health officials.
-- Think of our having a job where we've got nothing to sell but honesty and decency and the brotherhood o' man!"
-- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.
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：
-- Ideas, if you like, are fermenting,' he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, 'and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands.
-- There was so much swinishness in my soul and honesty too, of a sort, as to tell her straight out that I couldn't be absolutely faithful to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you make a brag of your honesty to me,' saidthe tinker, 'I'll knock your brains out.'
-- So did I. Traddlesthanked us both, by saying, with a simplicity and honesty I hadsense enough to be quite charmed with, 'I am very much obliged toyou indeed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond the mentioned reasons with which she combated her objections, she had a strong feeling that, having been the one who began the game, she ought in honesty to accept the consequences.
-- And the outspoken honesty of his character was such that on any subject, even that of her love for, or marriage with, another man, the same disinterestedness of opinion might be calculated on, and be had for the asking.
-- Perhaps it was some excuse for her thus torturing honesty to her own advantage, that she had absolutely no other sound judgment within easy reach.
-- Honesty and pure conviction suggested the remark, unaccompanied by any perception that it might have been adopted by blunt flattery to soothe and win her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This vicious assumption of honesty in dishonesty a vice so dangerous, so deadly, and so common seemed, he observed, a little to impress her in his favour.
-- Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner, whom three-fourths of it could, by no human means, raise out of the slough of inanity to their own intellectual level, it was particularly strange, and it was even particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by such a leader.
-- With the aid of a little more coaching for the political sages, a little more genteel listlessness for the general society, and a tolerable management of the assumed honesty in dishonesty, most effective and most patronized of the polite deadly sins, he speedily came to be considered of much promise.
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 angry honesty made a 'bad man' of him, and mealy-mouthedness made a 'nice woman' of her, in the vicious, conventional channelling of sympathy by Mrs Bolton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, if you are competent to judge aright the signs I never fail to show you when he appears among you, is your superior honesty your qualification?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bhaer's devotion was sincere, however likewise effective for honesty is the best policy in love as in law.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship.
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