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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I should be sorry that you went away, and thought I was unmindful of your goodness, or careless of her I am not indeed.'
-- It would have been strange if the careless profligate, who was the butt of both, had been harassed by any such consideration; for his high opinion of his own merits and deserts rendered the project rather a laudable one than otherwise; and if he had been visited by so unwonted a guest as reflection, he would being a brute only in the gratification of his appetites have soothed his conscience with the plea that he did not mean to beat or kill his wife, and would therefore, after all said and done, be a very tolerable, average husband.
-- Then I'm very glad that mine has brought all this upon itself, and I shall be as careless as I can, and make myself quite at home to spite it.
-- 'My advice,' said Jowl, lying down again with a careless air, 'is plain I have given it, in fact.
-- They always praised the child, her sense and beauty, and he was proud to hear them!But what was that, so often added, which wrung his heart, and made him sob and weep alone, in some dull corner!Alas!even careless strangers they who had no feeling for her, but the interest of the moment they who would go away and forget next week that such a being lived even they saw it even they pitied her even they bade him good day compassionately, and whispered as they passed.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And yet I don't know,' the Gnat went on in a careless tone: 'only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it!For instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out "come here ," and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn't be any name for her to call, and of course you wouldn't have to go, you know.'
-- 'Oh, things that happened the week after next,' the Queen replied in a careless tone.
-- 'All kinds of fastness,' he repeated: 'but it was careless of him to put another man's helmet on with the man in it, too.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This said in a careless tone, Captain Nemo left the saloon.
-- By the bye," said I, trying to take Captain Nemo's careless tone, "are you afraid of sharks, brave Ned?"
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Birkin was careless and unimaginative about his own appearance.
-- He was a careless driver, yet very quick.
-- They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell.
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