careless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 粗心的， 漫不经心的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Carton's manner was so careless as to be almost in-solent.
-- 'You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial 197intentions,' answered Carton, with a careless air; 'I wish you would keep to that.
-- said Carton, with a careless wave of his hand, as if he waved that away.
-- But when it came to that, they seemed careless what communication I might hold with her; as if the thought passed through my mind I were dying too.
-- As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he listened to Petritsky's familiar stories in the familiar setting of the rooms he had spent the last three years in, Vronsky felt a delightful sense of coming back to the careless Petersburg life that he was used to.
-- He expected all this; he saw it all in their faces, he saw it in the careless indifference with which they talked among themselves, stared at the lay figures and busts, and walked about in leisurely fashion, waiting for him to uncover his picture.
-- Dolly saw that she had now completely recovered from the impression her arrival had made on her, and had assumed that superficial, careless tone which, as it were, closed the door on that compartment in which her deeper feelings and ideas were kept.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having uttered these words with a cool, careless air, the detective took leave of the consul, and repaired to the telegraph office, whence he sent the dispatch which we have seen to the London police office.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But week slipped into careless and robust week, and when he awoke in a stable, smelling the sweet hay and the horses and the lark-ringing prairie that crept near to the heart of these shanty towns, he cared only for the day's work, the day's hiking, westward toward the sunset.
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
-- Angus leaned his head on his arm and sobbed, careless of stares, till he had drunk himself into obliteration, and Martin steered him home.
-- He remembered his days of wire-stringing in Montana and regained that careless peace.
-- There was small excuse for Martin's occasional brutality in showing his annoyance but, now that he was fulfilled in Leora and quite thoroughly and selfishly careless as to what hungry need others might have of himself, now that he was in a rut of industry and satisfied companionship, he was bored by Clif's unchanging flood of heavy humor.
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：
-- answered Raskolnikov, with a cold, careless smile.
-- Would you believe it too that Marfa Petrovna was positively angry with me at first for my persistent silence about your sister, for my careless reception of her continual adoring praises of Avdotya Romanovna.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides thatMr. Quinion did what a careless man so occupied, and dealingwith a thing so anomalous, could, to treat me as one upon adifferent footing from the rest, I never said, to man or boy, how itwas that I came to be there, or gave the least indication of beingsorry that I was there.
-- If any one had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game,played for the excitement of the moment, for the employment ofhigh spirits, in the thoughtless love of superiority, in a merewasteful careless course of winning what was worthless to him,and next minute thrown away: I say, if any one had told me such alie that night, I wonder in what manner of receiving it myindignation would have found a vent!
-- asked Steerforth in his careless way.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well if you advise it. But (with a smile) if Colonel Campbell should have employed a careless friend, and if it should prove to have an indifferent tone what shall I say?
-- My greatest danger, perhaps, in housekeeping, may be quite the other way, in doing too much, and being too careless of expense.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise was enough to disturb the motionless stranger, who started and assumed a careless position.
-- He had no light and careless touches in his constitution, either for good or for evil.
-- The careless sergeant smiled within himself, and probably too the devil smiled from a loop-hole in Tophet, for the moment was the turning-point of a career.
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