beauty是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 美， 美丽； 美人， 美丽的事物，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
-- She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired.
-- Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether face and fig-ure?'
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
-- 'Miss Woodhouse has given her friend the only beauty she wanted,' observed Mrs. Weston to him not in the least suspecting that she was addressing a lover. 'The ex-pression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
-- The beauty her features might have lacked in form was amply made up for by perfection of hue, which at this winter-time was the softened ruddiness on a surface of high rotundity that we meet with in a Terburg or a Gerard Douw; and, like the presentations of those great colourists, it was a face which kept well back from the boundary between comeliness and the ideal.
-- It would be ungallant to suggest that the novelty of her engagement in such an occupation had almost as much to do with the magnetism as had the beauty of her face and movements.
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
-- A man is never more credulous than in receiving favourable opinions on the beauty of a woman he is half, or quite, in love with; a mere child's word on the point has the weight of an R.A.'s.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw how constantly the poverty, which they had generously hidden from him, weighed upon them; he could not help comparing the sisters, who had seemed so beautiful to his boyish eyes, with women in Paris, who had realized the beauty of his dreams.
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
-- Rastignac turned abruptly and saw her standing before him, coquettishly dressed in a loose white cashmere gown with knots of rose-colored ribbon here and there; her hair was carelessly coiled about her head, as is the wont of Parisian women in the morning; there was a soft fragrance about her--doubtless she was fresh from a bath;--her graceful form seemed more flexible, her beauty more luxuriant.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents it-self to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
-- There for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators there snow and frost are ban-ished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
-- Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
-- I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
-- Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica she looked so frank-hearted and happy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their beauty she accepted as casually asthe air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything bat women's faces,horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
-- It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast-bred eyes accustomed to thequiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hotbeneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.
-- She quickly brought order, dignity and graceinto Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
-- But tonight became of the exaltationof her own spirit, Scarlett found in the whole ceremonial, the softly spoken words, the murmur of the responses, asurpassing beauty beyond any that she had ever experienced before.
-- And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty ofblossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Does the thought-contracted brow of the local Sage or the lustrous eye of local Beauty inquire whose fortunes?
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