casual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 偶然的, 碰巧的, 随便的, 临时的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she glanced in a casual manner round the wine-shop, took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and re-pose of spirit, and became absorbed in it.
-- The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under 222 A tale of two citiesthe necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius (or perhaps the same) con-ceived the humour of impeaching casual passers-by, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin could not help feeling an interest in the direction his gun was pointed, after that casual shot near the Kolpensky marsh.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He yearned for her; he regretted the casual affairs of a student and determined to be a pure and extremely industrious young man, to be, in fact, "worthy of her."
-- If she was vulgar, jocular, unreticent, she was also gallant, she was full of laughter at humbugs, she was capable of a loyalty too casual and natural to seem heroic.
-- Leora came to use, in her casual way, such words, such ancient Anglo-Saxon monosyllables, as would have dismayed Angus or Bert Tozer.
-- Martin tried to look casual as they were wafted in on Mrs. Tredgold's chatter, but it was the handsomest house he had ever entered.
-- She sat straight now, and when she spoke she had lost the casual independence with which she usually regarded life: "Dear, I'm awfully sorry.
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：
-- Simpletons!They en-gaged untrustworthy people to change the notes what a thing to trust to a casual stranger!Well, let us suppose that these simpletons succeed and each makes a million, and what follows for the rest of their lives?
-- 'Yes, a woman, a casual incident芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Miss Betsey, coming back to her chair, as if she hadonly been taking a casual look at the prospect; 'and when do youexpect-' 'I am all in a tremble,' faltered my mother.
-- If I had been a casual passer-by, I should have probablysupposed that some childless person lay dead in it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces positives and negatives in fine adjustment.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He liked the casual grace with whichthey conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing offtheir losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to pickaninnies.
-- If only she could be as cool and casual as he was!He propelled her into the hall but shestill stood helplessly looking at him.
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：
-- 'Not at all, I'd better not know...But you do agree with me, don't you, that the casual sex thing is nothing, compared to the long life lived together?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when they had passed the turning and were in the darkness of the dark corner leading to the terrace, he made after them with such indifferent appearance of being a casual passenger on his way, as he could assume.
-- It was no casual resemblance, helped out by the force of the impression the man made upon him.
-- This casual repetition of the word 'personally,' moved Mr Dorrit to express his hope that Mr Merdle's approval, too, would not be wanting?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But all these seemed only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged abode.
-- Secondly: The ship Union, also of Nantucket, was in the year 1807 totally lost off the Azores by a similar onset, but the authentic particulars of this catastrophe I have never chanced to encounter, though from the whale hunters I have now and then heard casual allusions to it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distin-guished trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr. Darcy; or at least, by the pre-dominance of virtue, atone for those casual errors under which she would endeavour to class what Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years' continu-ance.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
-- After these thoughts had for some time entertained me, I came to reflect seriously upon the real danger I had been in for so many years in this very island, and how I had walked about in the greatest security, and with all possible tran-quillity, even when perhaps nothing but the brow of a hill, a great tree, or the casual approach of night, had been be-tween me and the worst kind of destruction - viz.
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