flatter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 阿谀, 使高兴; (肖像等) 胜过(真人真物)，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：
-- After this odd description of his daily routine of em-ployment, Mr. Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and re-sumed his former attitude.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next morning, Tuesday, Alexey Alexandrovitch, on waking up, recollected with pleasure his triumph of the previous day, and he could not help smiling, though he tried to appear indifferent, when the chief secretary of his department, anxious to flatter him, informed him of the rumors that had reached him concerning what had happened in the Commission.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the papers, and I can only say they flatter me when they compare me with Billy Sunday, the greatest of all evangelists and Christian preachers--sometimes they claim that I'm too sensational.
-- This consists of one month of committee meetings, a hundred columns of praise for the organization in the public prints, and finally a day or two on which athletic persons flatter inappreciative audiences in churches or cinema theaters, and the prettiest girls in town have the pleasure of being allowed to talk to male strangers on the street corners, apropos of giving them extremely undecorative tags in exchange for the smallest sums which those strangers think they must pay if they are to be considered gentlemen.
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：
-- Sonia knew that this would comfort Katerina Ivanovna, would flatter her and gratify her pride.
-- You are nervously irritable, Rodion Roma-novitch, by temperament; it's out of proportion with other qualities of your heart and character, which I flatter myself I have to some extent divined.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Emma knows I never flatter her,' said Mr. Knightley, 'but I meant no reflection on any body.
-- Still, however, though every thing had not been accom-plished by her ingenious device, she could not but flatter herself that it had been the occasion of much present en-joyment to both, and must be leading them forward to the great event.
-- But I do flatter myself, my dear Jane, that my influence is not entirely worn out.
-- She must not flatter herself that he thought of her dancing, but if he were criticising her behaviour, she did not feel afraid.
-- She could not flatter herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to her.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Madam, you flatter yourself, I do not want to marry you or anyone else.
-- "You flatter yourself, Captain Butler.
-- But he'll have to keep falling back if he wants to protect the railroad; and mark my words, when theypush him out of the mountains and onto the flatter land around here, he's going to be butchered."
-- Sheremembered Rhett's remark: "When the Yankees push him out of the mountains and onto the flatter land, he'll bebutchered."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Coiler then changed the subject and began to flatter me.
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：
-- You love fucking all right: but you want it to be called something grand and mysterious, just to flatter your own self-impor-tance.
-- 'Do I though!But men are all alike: just babies, and you have to flatter them and wheedle them and let them think they're having their own way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been able to flatter out of their villainous hideousness, might have come off their pedestals to run away with the Bride.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wouldn't have told you, for I set my heart on surprising you, and I flatter myself I've done it,' said Jo, when she got her breath.
-- 'You're an artful little puss to flatter and wheedle your cross old sister in that way.
-- I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant,' said Laurie, look-ing amused at her maternal air.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear, you flatter me.
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