negligent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 粗心大意的，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：
-- Carton's negligent recklessness of manner came power-fully in aid of his quickness and skill, in such a business as he had in his secret mind, and with such a man as he had to do with.
-- The two opposing kinds of pride confronting one another, I can see, even in this Bastille; the gentleman's, all negligent indifference; the peasants, all trodden-down sentiment, and passionate revenge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 512'And you can hardly think,' said Mr. Spenlow, 'having experienceof what we see, in the Commons here, every day, of the variousunaccountable and negligent proceedings of men, in respect oftheir testamentary arrangements- of all subjects, the one on whichperhaps the strangest revelations of human inconsistency are to bemet with- but that mine are made?'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where a man does his best 136 Emmawith only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
-- There was always sufficient reason forsuch an attention; Mrs. and Miss Bates loved to be called on, and she knew she was considered by the very few who pre-sumed ever to see imperfection in her, as rather negligent in that respect, and as not contributing what she ought to the stock of their scanty comforts.
-- She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrel-ling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own but still, from family at-tachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an en-deavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.
-- Every thing turns out for his good. He meets with a young woman at a watering-place, gains her affection, can-not even weary her by negligent treatment and had he and 524 Emmaall his family sought round the world for a perfect wife for him, they could not have found her superior. His aunt is in the way. His aunt dies. He has only to speak. His friends are eager to promote his happiness. He had used every body ill and they are all delighted to forgive him. He is a fortunate man indeed!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as shemarked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own negligent hand.
-- He then walked home pretty easily, though not yet free from an impression of the presence and influence of his new friend as if he were lounging somewhere in the air, in the same negligent attitude, regarding him with the same look.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little man sat down again upon the pavement with the negligent ease of one who was thoroughly accustomed to pavements; and placing three hunks of coarse bread before himself, and falling to upon a fourth, began contentedly to work his way through them as if to clear them off were a sort of game.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory cor- respondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.
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