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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was rather tall, and her gray dress, simple and quite well-cut, did not hide the fact that her figure was beautiful.
-- I think the company of poor, simple people would have done his soul a great good.
-- Our life is simple and innocent.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this northwest wind was not a simple breeze.
-- What astonished him was, that so simple an idea had not occurred to him before.
-- "Well, it's a very simple proceeding, and much used in the islands of the Pacific."
-- Harding resolved, in consequence, to make his observation from Prospect Heights, taking into consideration its height above the level of the sea a height which he intended to calculate next day by a simple process of elementary geometry.
-- Herbert carried a plumb-line which Harding had given him, that is to say, a simple stone fastened to the end of a flexible fiber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, yes, I understand that now,' said Quilp; 'but I was going to say, I was so deceived by that, your miserly way, the reputation you had among those who knew you of being rich, and your repeated assurances that you would make of my advances treble and quadruple the interest you paid me, that I'd have advanced you, even now, what you want, on your simple note of hand, if I hadn't unexpectedly become acquainted with your secret way of life.'
-- She saw in this, but a return of the simple pleasures they had once enjoyed, a relief from the gloomy solitude in which she had lived, an escape from the heartless people by whom she had been surrounded in her late time of trial, the restoration of the old man's health and peace, and a life of tranquil happiness.
-- She would have the old man refresh himself in this way too, and making him sit down upon the grass, cast the water on him with her hands, and dried it with her simple dress.
-- But the woman had observed, from the young wanderer's gait, that one of her little feet was blistered and sore, and being a woman and a mother too, she would not suffer her to go until she had washed the place and applied some simple remedy, which she did so carefully and with such a gentle hand rough-grained and hard though it was, with work that the child's heart was too full to admit of her saying more than a fervent 'God bless you!'
-- But, the great ornaments of the walls were certain moral sentences fairly copied in good round text, and well-worked sums in simple addition and multiplication, evidently achieved by the same hand, which were plentifully pasted all round the room: for the double purpose, as it seemed, of bearing testimony to the excellence of the school, and kindling a worthy emulation in the bosoms of the scholars.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You see, it is not as simple as it appears at first sight," said Nekhludoff.
-- When Wolf had finished his argument, B脙漏, leaving the garland unfinished, in a sad--it was sad for him to be obliged to prove such truisms--soft, pleasant voice, convincingly proved in a few simple words that the charge had no foundation, and, again drooping his hoary head, continued to complete the garland.
-- It was that same simple feeling of pity and contrition which he experienced at their first meeting in the prison and afterward, with greater force, when he conquered his disgust and forgave her conduct with the physician's assistant in the hospital (the injustice he had done her had subsequently become plain).
-- Maslenikoff, Nekhludoff character error: Nekhludoff was kept in the following sentence to match the original, and because it wasn't a simple printer's typo.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's a simple point of psychology.
-- "As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world mastered the whole secret of these delicious people.
-- Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough as most wrong theories are!
-- Their sentences were usually simple and of two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions.
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：
-- A boat beneath a sunny sky,Lingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased a simple tale to hear Long has paled that sunny sky:Echoes fade and memories die.Autumn frosts have slain July.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But vain excitement!The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse.
-- These two dimensions enable you to obtain by a simple calculation the surface and cubic contents of the Nautilus.
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