dingy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 脏的, 邋遢的，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
-- The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They went into a dingy room lined with books and lit-tered with papers, where there was a blazing fire.
-- His son obeyed, and the crowd approached; they were bawling and hissing round a dingy hearse and din-gy mourning coach, in which mourning coach there was only one mourner, dressed in the dingy trappings that were considered essential to the dignity of the position.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the station-entrance every dingy taxicab seemed radiant to him, and he marched forth a conqueror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When we had those meetings in the garden of the square, and satwithin the dingy summer-house, so happy, that I love the Londonsparrows to this hour, for nothing else, and see the plumage of thetropics in their smoky feathers!
-- I am sure I knew nothing about him, exceptthat he had originally been alone in the business, and now lived byhimself in a house near Montagu Square, which was fearfully inwant of painting; that he came very late of a day, and went awayvery early; that he never appeared to be consulted about anything;and that he had a dingy little black-hole of his own upstairs whereno business was ever done, and where there was a yellow, oldcartridge-paper pad upon his desk, unsoiled by ink, and reportedto be twenty years of age.
-- I walked from the Custom House to the Monumentbefore I found a coach; and although the very house-fronts, lookingon the swollen gutters, were like old friends to me, I could not butadmit that they were very dingy friends.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The women's dresses were faded, old-fashioned, dyed and re-dyed; they wore gloves that were glazed with hard wear, much-mended lace, dingy ruffles, crumpled muslin fichus.
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
-- When Goriot appeared for the first time in this condition, an exclamation of astonishment broke from his hostess at the color of his hair--a dingy olive gray.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter in itself was enough to attract attentionto him, for the uniforms of the soldiers were dingy and worn now and the civilians, even when turned out in their best,showed skillful patching and darning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy little bar, was another Pegasus a theatrical one with real gauze let in for his wings, golden stars stuck on all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes a face would appear behind the dingy glass of a window, and would fade away into the gloom as if it had seen enough of life and had vanished out of it.
-- An old brick house, so dingy as to be all but black, standing by itself within a gateway.
-- Arthur Clennam came to a squeezed house, with a ramshackle bowed front, little dingy windows, and a little dark area like a damp waistcoat-pocket, which he found to be number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square.
-- He was dressed in black and rusty iron grey; had jet black beads of eyes; a scrubby little black chin; wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs, like forks or hair-pins; and a complexion that was very dingy by nature, or very dirty by art, or a compound of nature and art.
-- Calling these things to mind, and ranging Mr Pancks in a row with them, Arthur Clennam leaned this day to the opinion, without quite deciding on it, that the last of the Patriarchs was the drifting Booby aforesaid, with the one idea of keeping the bald part of his head highly polished: and that, much as an unwieldy ship in the Thames river may sometimes be seen heavily driving with the tide, broadside on, stern first, in its own way and in the way of everything else, though making a great show of navigation, when all of a sudden, a little coaly steam-tug will bear down upon it, take it in tow, and bustle off with it; similarly the cumbrous Patriarch had been taken in tow by the snorting Pancks, and was now following in the wake of that dingy little craft.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked to a wardrobe and produced a robe of dingy scarlet.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie waited an hour in a dingy office, quite in spite of obstacles, to learn this fact of the placid, indifferent Mr. Dorney.
-- Impelled by a nervous fear, he rose and went into the dingy hall, where he counted his remaining money, unseen.
-- In the latter, crowds on cold errands shifted past dingy stores, in the deep recesses of which lights were already gleaming.
-- It was a dingy affair--wooden, dusty, hard.
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