foolish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 愚笨的， 愚蠢的，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Hours did not go through any of those rosy performances, which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any faster, or any slower, than at other seasons.
-- Though I do not mean to say but that my feelings may be weaker on such points more foolish if the term is preferred than they might have been, if I had always occupied my present position.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had still the option of refusing or accepting a share in this foolish and audacious enterprise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How foolish of Clifford to make a fuss!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long in the legs, yielding at the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketed, lime-whitened.
-- Thus, in a prolix, gently-growling, foolish way, did Plornish turn the tangled skein of his estate about and about, like a blind man who was trying to find some beginning or end to it; until they reached the prison gate.
-- I assure you, Flora, I am happy in seeing you once more, and in finding that, like me, you have not forgotten the old foolish dreams, when we saw all before us in the light of our youth and hope.'
-- In all these foolish thoughts of mine, which I have been so hardy as to confess to you because I know you will understand me if anybody can, and will make more allowance for me than anybody else would if you cannot in all these thoughts, there is one thought scarcely ever never out of my memory, and that is that I hope you sometimes, in a quiet moment, have a thought for me.
-- In my foolish incapacity for business, I assure you I know no more.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several young gentlemen, who had only stared at her at the other party, now not only stared, but asked to be introduced, and said all manner of foolish but agreeable things to her, and sev-eral old ladies, who sat on the sofas, and criticized the rest of the party, inquired who she was with an air of interest.
-- 'No, never repeat that foolish gossip, and forget it as soon as you can,' said Mrs. March gravely.
-- 'That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the lik-ing does not become a passion and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things.
-- A formal apology will make him see how foolish he is, and bring him down quite amiable.
-- She forgot every word of it, hung her head, and answered, 'I don't know,' so softly that John had to stoop down to catch the foolish little reply.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
-- "I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.'"
-- Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
-- Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
-- Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Come,' said Mr. Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced; 'Come, Oliver!Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nay,' cried Bingley, 'this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
-- She is a very headstrong, foolish girl, and does not know her own interest but I will MAKE her know it.'
-- Mr. Bennet's emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!
-- 'A man who has once been refused!How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love?
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