tactful是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 机智的, 老练的,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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While he was practicing the tactful observation he was going to present two minutes from now, he could still hear the clumsy thing he had said two minutes before.
-- "Oh, you got to expect that," he reflected, feeling that he was being tactful and patient and penetrating.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I shall never forget the tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take nourishment.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- How delight-ful, how tactful that will be!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
-- Hurstwood, still tactful in distress, added nothing to this.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And he was seldom tactful in doingit.
-- Melanie, the most tactful of women, had tears in her eyes at her own cruelty.
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