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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon afterwards another white-headed little boy came straggling in, and after him a red-headed lad, and after him two more with white heads, and then one with a flaxen poll, and so on until the forms were occupied by a dozen boys or thereabouts, with heads of every colour but grey, and ranging in their ages from four years old to fourteen years or more; for the legs of the youngest were a long way from the floor when he sat upon the form, and the eldest was a heavy good-tempered foolish fellow, about half a head taller than the schoolmaster.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not dark yet, and only two women lay in their cots; one a foolish little woman--she was constantly crying--who had been arrested because she had no written evidence of her identity, had her head covered with her coat; the other, a consumptive, was serving a sentence for theft.
-- "He is a very foolish fellow and, of course, could say nothing sensible," Fanirin said, laughing.
-- Nekhludoff wondered that these people, while their wives were killing themselves with work at home, and their children starving, should think it necessary to build that foolish and unnecessary house for some foolish and unnecessary man.
-- "Yes, a foolish building," he spoke his thought aloud.
-- Maslenikoff probably signed the usual order with his foolish flourish, on a printed letter-head, and, of course, does not consider himself guilty.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea.
-- When I saw them standing round me, it came into my head that I was doing as foolish a thing as it was possible for me to do under the circumstances, in trying to revive the sensation of fear.
-- It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity.
-- She was fearless enough in the daylight, and she had the oddest confidence in me; for once, in a foolish moment, I made threatening grimaces at her, and she simply laughed at them.
-- He, I know for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.
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：
-- 'I know they're talking nonsense,' Alice thought to herself: 'and it's foolish to cry about it.'
-- So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its neck: then, slowly beating time with one hand, and with a faint smile lighting up his gentle foolish face, as if he enjoyed the music of his song, he began.
-- 'Your Majesty must excuse her,' the Red Queen said to Alice, taking one of the White Queen's hands in her own, and gently stroking it: 'she means well, but she can't help saying foolish things, as a general rule.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a foolish affair after all, and one upon which we entered too lightly.
-- What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money than of their foolish hopes.
-- All these foolish and unreasonable ideas pursued me.
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：
-- Gerald was on the point of knocking-in Halliday's face; when he was filled with sudden disgust and indifference, and he went away, leaving Halliday in a foolish state of gloating triumph, the Pussum hard and established, and Maxim standing clear.
-- It was all a foolish backward and forward, a violent oscillation that would at length be too violent for his coherency, and he would smash and be dead.
-- Here Gudrun broke in, flushed and brilliant, anxious to avoid any more of this, any more of Ursula's foolish persistence in giving herself away.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.
-- Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband's knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.
-- Come, come to bed!there's no use waiting any longer on that foolish boy: he'll be gone to Gimmerton, and he'll stay there now.
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