disdain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /n. 蔑视, 轻视，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a suggestion of immense pride and disdain in the face almost of hatred, and at the same time something confid-ing and very full of simplicity.
-- Aglaya gazed at him for some seconds with precisely the same composure and calm astonishment as she had shown a little while before, when the prince handed her the note, and it appeared that this calm surprise and seemingly ab-solute incomprehension of what was said to her, were more terribly overwhelming to Gania than even the most plainly expressed disdain would have been.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Incline your head,' said she, 'and promise me surely, or else deny me for you have nothing to fear that I may learn how greatly you disdain me.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place he resolved that from that day he would give up hoping for any extraordinary happiness, such as marriage must have given him, and consequently he would not so disdain what he really had.
-- "But he didn't disdain it; I believe he cared for me, but he was a dutiful son..." "Yes, but if it hadn't been on account of his mother, if it had been his own doing?..."
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：
-- Pyotr Petrovitch so enjoyed hearing his own praises that he did not disdain even such virtues when they were attributed to him.
-- 'Ah, don't disdain life!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had parted angrily on the lastoccasion; and there was an air of disdain about her, which she tookno pains to conceal.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunt-ed claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing.
-- So unlike what a man should be! None of that upright integrity, that strict 486 Emmaadherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.'
-- Knightley and Harriet Smith! Such an ele-vation on her side!Such a debasement on his!It was horrible to Emma to think how it must sink him in the general opin-ion, to foresee the smiles, the sneers, the merriment it would prompt at his expense; the mortification and disdain of his brother, the thousand inconveniences to himself. Could it be? No; it was impossible.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Very well you keep it, Coggan," said Gabriel with disdain and almost fiercely.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps 37most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
-- He approached; his coun-112 Frankensteintenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
-- Let your com-passion be moved, and do not disdain me.
-- I dared not think that they would turn them from me with disdain and horror.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would disdain the bridge and swim his horse through the river and come home roaring, to be putto bed on the sofa in the office by Pork who always waited up with a lamp in the front hall on such occasions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The orator having refreshed himself, wiped his corrugated forehead from left to right several times with his handkerchief folded into a pad, and concentrated all his revived forces, in a sneer of great disdain and bitterness.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disdain the task?
-- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not long separated, when Miss Bingley came towards her, and with an expression of civil disdain accost-ed her: 'So, Miss Eliza, I hear you are quite delighted with George Wickham!Your sister has been talking to me about him, and asking me a thousand questions; and I find that the young man quite forgot to tell you, among his other communication, that he was the son of old Wickham, the late Mr. Darcy's steward.
-- She went on: 'From the very beginning from the first moment, I may almost say of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of oth-ers, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dis-like; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be pre-vailed on to marry.'
-- Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character.
-- It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself; but, whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of general complaisance, and in all that he said she heard an accent so removed from hauteur or disdain of his companions, as convinced her that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day.
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