carelessness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 粗心，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were by no means unnecessary, however, for any imprudence or carelessness might have cost the travelers dear.
-- This unpardonable carelessness obliged John Mangles to keep a watchful eye ever open.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As ravening wolves seize on kids or lambs, fas-tening on them when they are alone on the hillsides and have strayed from the main flock through the carelessness of the shepherd and when the wolves see this they pounce upon them at once because they cannot defend themselves even so did the Danaans now fall on the Trojans, who fled with ill-omened cries in their panic and had no more fight left in them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew not that she was instinctively aware of this, and preparing herself for this time of terrible toil, did not reproach herself for the moments of carelessness and happiness in her love that she enjoyed now while gaily building her nest for the future.
-- But the princess did not understand his feelings, and put down his reluctance to think and talk about it to carelessness and indifference, and so she gave him no peace.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried, with a carelessness on which he could but pride himself.
-- In the simple gorgeousness of the Nautilus smart set, Mrs. Clay Tredgold had petted Leora and laughed at her if she lacked a shoe- buckle or split an infinitive, but the gold-slippered Mrs. Duer was accustomed to sneer at carelessness with the most courteous and unresentable and unmistakable sneers.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had she followed Mr. Knightley's known wishes, in paying that attention to Miss Fairfax, which was every way her due; had she tried to know her better; had she done her part towards intimacy; had she endeavoured to find a friend there instead of in Harriet Smith; she must, in all proba-bility, have been spared from every pain which pressed on her now. Birth, abilities, and education, had been equal-ly marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the other what was she? Supposing even that they had never become intimate friends; that she had never been admitted into Miss Fairfax's confidence on this important matter which was most probable still, in knowing her as she ought, and as she might, she must have been preserved from the abominable suspicions of an im-proper attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had not only so foolishly fashioned and harboured herself, but had so unpardonably imparted; an idea which she greatly feared had been made a subject of material distress to the delica-cy of Jane's feelings, by the levity or carelessness of Frank Churchill's.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When women are in a freakish mood, their usual intuition, either from carelessness or inherent defect, seemingly fails to teach them this, and hence it was that Bathsheba was fated to be astonished to-day.
-- With almost a morbid dread of being thought a gushing girl, this guileless woman too well concealed from the world under a manner of carelessness the warm depths of her strong emotions.
-- "No, Gabriel," he resumed, with a carelessness which was like the smile on the countenance of a skull: "it was made more of by other people than ever it was by us.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
-- It was a bold ques-tion, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becom-50 Frankensteining acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
-- The physician came and pre-scribed medicines, and the old woman prepared them for me; but utter carelessness was visible in the first, and the expression of brutality was strongly marked in the visage of the second.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though she called me "boy" so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard the word Burglum repeated incessantly: sev-eral of the emperor's court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty's apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance.
-- The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and the ceiling, to prevent any ac-cident from the carelessness of those who carried me, and to break the force of a jolt, when I went in a coach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A certain idle carelessness and recklessness of consistency soon comes of it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for buttons, she soon learned to wonder where they went, to shake her head over the carelessness of men, and to threaten to make him sew them on himself, and see if his work would stand impa-tient and clumsy fingers any better than hers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because in such a wilderness of running rigging, whose various different relations aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at the deck; and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few minutes cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural fatality, if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor should by some carelessness of the crew be cast adrift and fall all swooping to the sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.'
-- 'The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your de-fects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interest-ing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But with a strange kind of tenderness, if he can leave her with such indifference, such carelessness of the future, as you attribute to him."
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