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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Sorrows of Wert-er, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and as-tonishment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Itwas as simple as that.
-- She was as forthright and simple as the windsthat blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able tounderstand a complexity.
-- It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single-mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal andshe thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it.
-- She looked and was as simple as earth, as good as bread, as transparent as spring water.
-- He lookeddown at her radiantly, his whole clean simple heart in his eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read "wife of the Above" as a complimentary reference to my father's exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as "Below," I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family.
-- I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him.
-- It would seem a simple matter to decide on these precautions; but in my dazed, not to say distracted, state, it took so long, that I did not get out to further them until two or three in the afternoon.
-- The simple fruits of the earth.
-- Many pleasant pictures of the life that I would lead there, and of the change for the better that would come over my character when I had a guiding spirit at my side whose simple faith and clear home wisdom I had proved, beguiled my way.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are expressed in the most plain and simple terms, wherein those people are not mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation: and to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
-- The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
-- Once again, Stephen had to conquer an instinctive propensity to dislike this old woman, though her manner was as honest and simple as a manner possibly could be.
-- The same Hermitical state of mind led to her renunciation of made dishes and wines at dinner, until fairly commanded by Mr. Bounderby to take them; when she said, 'Indeed you are very good, sir;' and departed from a resolution of which she had made rather formal and public announcement, to 'wait for the simple mutton.'
-- The dreams of childhood its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for then the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world, wherein it were better for all the children of Adam that they should oftener sun themselves, simple and trustful, and not worldly-wise what had she to do with these?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His delight was to have found the original work in the Ice landic tongue, which he declared to be one of the most magnificent and yet simple idioms in the world--while at the same time its grammatical combinations were the most varied known to students.
-- Out of three rooms of which his house was composed, two were placed at our service, and in a few hours we were installed with all our baggage, the amount of which rather astonished the simple inhabitants of Reykjavik.
-- Between the little lake and the town was the church, built in simple Protestant style, and composed of calcined stones, thrown up by volcanic action.
-- In the innocence of his simple heart, our host did not perceive the irony of these remarks.
-- His eyes, which started rather prominently from a very large head, the face belonging to which was simple and naive, appeared very quick and intelligent.
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：
-- That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple func-tion of sex.
-- Twelve hundred pounds last year!was the retort simple and final.
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