simple是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 简单的； 单纯的， 直率的； 迟钝的， 头脑简单的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his own case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his reason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carrying out his design, for the simple reason that his design was 'not a crime芒聙娄.'
-- And this hapless Liza-veta was so simple and had been so thoroughly crushed and scared that she did not even raise a hand to guard her face, though that was the most necessary and natural action at the moment, for the axe was raised over her face.
-- And if at that moment he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of his position, the hopelessness, the hideousness and the absurdity of it, if he could have understood how many ob-stacles and, perhaps, crimes he had still to overcome or to commit, to get out of that place and to make his way home, it is very possible that he would have flung up everything, and would have gone to give himself up, and not from fear, but from simple horror and loathing of what he had done.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had anydoubt of him, I suppose this halfawakened it; but I am inclined tobelieve that with the simple confidence of a child, and the naturalreliance of a child upon superior years (qualities I am very sorryany children should prematurely change for worldly wisdom), Ihad no serious mistrust of him on the whole, even then.
-- What ravages Icommitted on my favourite authors in the course of myinterpretation of them, I am not in a condition to say, and shouldbe very unwilling to know; but I had a profound faith in them, andI had, to the best of my belief, a simple earnest manner of narratingwhat I did narrate; and these qualities went a long way.
-- Murdstone,' she said, shaking her finger at him, 'you were atyrant to the simple baby, and you broke her heart.
-- But the Doctor himself was the idol of the whole school; and itmust have been a badly-composed school if he had been anythingelse, for he was the kindest of men; with a simple faith in him thatmight have touched the stone hearts of the very urns upon thewall.
-- Mr. Peggotty, in simple earnestness, waved his right arm, as if hewere waving it at the town-lights for the last time, and then,exchanging a nod with Ham, whose eye he caught, proceeded asbefore'Well!I counsels him to speak to Em'ly.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they were all to be conveyed, he would have made a difficulty if he could, but as his son and daughter's car-riage and horses were actually at Hartfield, he was not able to make more than a simple question on that head; it hardly amounted to a doubt; nor did it occupy Emma long to con-vince him that they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also.
-- 'I dare say you would; but I, simple I, saw nothing but the fact, that Miss Fairfax was nearly dashed from the ves-sel and that Mr. Dixon caught her. It was the work of a moment.
-- But still she had inclination enough for shew-ing people again how delightfully Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Woodhouse danced for doing that in which she need not blush to compare herself with Jane Fairfax and even for simple dancing itself, without any of the wicked aids of vanity to assist him first in pacing out the room they were in to see what it could be made to hold and then in taking the dimensions of the other parlour, in the hope of discover-ing, in spite of all that Mr. Weston could say of their exactly equal size, that it was a little the largest.
-- A bride, you know, must appear like a bride, but my natural taste is all for simplicity; a simple style of dress is so infinitely pref-erable to finery.
-- It is to be a morning scheme, you know, Knightley; quite a simple thing.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the corner stood the sheep-crook, and along a shelf at one side were ranged bottles and canisters of the simple preparations pertaining to ovine surgery and physic; spirits of wine, turpentine, tar, magnesia, ginger, and castor-oil being the chief.
-- "Oh Lord, not he, ma'am!A simple tool.
-- But her eyes had a softness invariably a softness which, had they not been dark, would have seemed mistiness; as they were, it lowered an expression that might have been piercing to simple clearness.
-- The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its ecclesiastical and military compeers.
-- "B. E." is newly stamped upon the shorn skin, and away the simple dam leaps, panting, over the board into the shirtless flock outside.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sylvie saw not a trace of resemblance between this great lady and the girl in her simple morning dress who had entered her kitchen on the occasion of her first visit.
-- Luckily, therefore, for him, the novice happened upon the Marquis de Montriveau, the lover of the Duchesse de Langeais, a general as simple as a child; from him Rastignac learned that the Comtesse lived in the Rue du Helder.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your af-fections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is cer-tainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
-- But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.'
-- A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous 94 Frankensteininterference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.
-- She played a simple air, and her voice 138 Frankensteinaccompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
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