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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They could not make their voices heard, but the sheets of white light which enwrapped them every now and then, revealed the face of one and another, sometimes the calm features of the Major, sometimes the eager, curious glance of Paganel, or the energetic face of Glenarvan, and at others, the scared eyes of the terrified Robert, and the careless looks of the sailors, investing them with a weird, spectral aspect.
-- Mulrady and Wilson more than once brought round the helm when some careless steering threatened to throw the ship on her beam-ends.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, if I am to be squire down there I must dress the part, and it may be that I have got a little careless in my ways out West.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything is exposed to the public gaze, veils are thrown back, every wound is probed by careless fingers.
-- Soon the careless nobleman forgot all about his former mistress and the child she had borne him; then, as we know, he died intestate.
-- Now I am a millionaire, and P 's son, a noble young man who is not responsible for the faults of his careless and forgetful father, is wearing himself out giving ill-paid lessons.
-- She was only waiting for the hour that would bring the matter to a final climax; and every hint, every careless probing of her wound, did but further lacerate her heart.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you are careless and wilfully remiss.
-- While he was thus engaged a sweet and careless sleep might be made to steal over his eyes and senses.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Them careless imps, the Mohawks, with their Tusca-rora and Onondaga brethren, have been here slaking their thirst,' he muttered, 'and the vagabonds have thrown away the gourd!This is the way with benefits, when they are be-stowed on such disremembering hounds!Here has the Lord laid his hand, in the midst of the howling wilderness, for their good, and raised a fountain of water from the bowels of the 'arth, that might laugh at the richest shop of apoth-ecary's ware in all the colonies; and see!the knaves have trodden in the clay, and deformed the cleanliness of the place, as though they were brute beasts, instead of human men.'
-- The arrival of flags to cover the messengers of summons, had occurred so often of late, that when Heyward first threw his careless glance on this group, he expected to see another of the officers of the enemy, charged with a similar office but the instant he recognized the tall person and still sturdy though down-cast features of his friend, the woodsman, he started with surprise, and turned to descend from the bastion into the bosom of the work.
-- 'For my own part,' continued Hawkeye, turning his face for a moment in the direction indicated by Heyward, but with a vacant and careless manner, 'I believe that paradise is ordained for happiness; and that men will be indulged in it according to their dispositions and gifts.
-- His aged head was bowed nearly to the earth, in compelled sub-mission to the stroke of Providence; but a hidden anguish struggled about his furrowed brow, that was only partially concealed by the careless locks of gray that had fallen, ne-glected, on his temples.
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：
-- It could not have been very easy to be bright and careless with that sudden secret in her heart, nor to give her attention to all the things that needed doing to get her children comfortably packed off.
-- I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it.
-- "Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
-- It would have been passed in an exhibition of the Post-Impressionists by a careless person as an excellent but not very remarkable example of the school; but perhaps afterwards it would come back to his recollection, and he would wonder why.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dawkin's appearance did not say a vast deal in favour of the comforts which his patron's interest obtained for those whom he took under his protection; but, as he had a rather flightly and dissolute mode of conversing, and furthermore avowed that among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of 'The Artful Dodger,' Oliver concluded that, being of a dissipated and careless turn, the moral precepts of his benefactor had hitherto been thrown away upon him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XII - A CAVE RETREATWHILE this was doing, I was not altogether careless of my other affairs; for I had a great concern upon me for my little herd of goats: they were not only a ready supply to me on ev-ery occasion, and began to be sufficient for me, without the expense of powder and shot, but also without the fatigue of hunting after the wild ones; and I was loath to lose the advantage of them, and to have them all to nurse up over again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Edward had been staying several weeks in the house before he engaged much of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects.
-- They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.
-- Careless of her happiness, thinking only of my own amusement, giving way to feelings which I had always been too much in the habit of indulging, I endeavoured, by every means in my power, to make myself pleasing to her, without any design of returning her affection."
-- Mrs. Dashwood's and Elinor's appetites were equally lost, and Margaret might think herself very well off, that with so much uneasiness as both her sisters had lately experienced, so much reason as they had often had to be careless of their meals, she had never been obliged to go without her dinner before.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This place was grimy and low, the girls were careless and hardened.
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