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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His skeleton-like figure, his ghastly complexion, the brightness of his eyes, and the red spots of colour on his cheeks, betrayed the victim of consumption to the most casual glance.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw glass bottles.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tem-pered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to 'shut up' I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grown desperate by his situation, he drew nigh the slight barrier which separated him only by a few feet from his re-lentless pursuers, and placing his face to the casual opening, he even looked out with a sort of desperate indifference, on their movements.
-- Here and there a bird was heard fluttering among the branches of the beeches, and occasionally a squirrel dropped a nut, drawing the startled looks of the party for a moment to the place; but the instant the casual interruption ceased, the passing air was heard murmuring above their heads, along that verdant and undulating surface of forest, which spread itself unbroken, unless by stream or lake, over such a vast region of country.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these tales, told in that drowsy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a pipe, sank deep in the mind of Ichabod.
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：
-- I do not know why I made my enquiry as casual as possible.
-- I had formed a casual acquaintance with him, and he sat down at our table.
-- To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had drawn close together during the previous whispering, and now hastily separated and were rather awkwardly endeavouring to exchange some casual remarks in their usual tone, when strange footsteps were heard without, and fresh company entered.
-- There are chords in the human heart strange, varying strings which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to me the future is still black and blank is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They intended to keep their relationship a casual free-and-easy friendship, they were not going to be so unmanly and unnatural as to allow any heart-burning between them.
-- Then, pulling herself together with a convulsed movement, Hermione resumed, in a sing-song, casual voice:"But leaving me apart, Rupert; do you think the children are better, richer, happier, for all this knowledge; do you really think they are?
-- she asked, casual and sing-song.
-- She felt it would be wiser and better to have no more than a casual acquaintance with him.
-- she asked, in a toneless voice, persisting in appearing casual and unaffected.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.
-- Mrs. Hurstwood directed an inquiring glance at her husband, but could not judge from his appearance whether it was any more than a casual look into the theatre which was referred to.
-- There was no apparent slope downward, and distinctly none upward, so far as the casual observer might have seen.
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