nobility是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高贵, 高尚; 贵族，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：
-- Miss Helena did not belong to a noble family, but she was Scotch, and that was better than all nobility in the eyes of Lord Glenarvan; and she was, moreover, a charming, high-souled, religious young woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This unkind action much surprised poor Ardalion Alexandrovitch, the victim, as he called himself, of an 'unbounded trust in the nobility of the human heart.'
-- 'No, gentlemen, our scions of the nobility do not reason thus.
-- 'But, do you know, this nobility of mind exists in a dream, if one may put it so?
-- And I have determined to come to you as to a man in whose sincerity and nobility of feeling I can trust like like are you surprised at my words, prince?'
-- It never struck him that all this refined simplicity and nobility and wit and personal dignity might possibly be no more than an exquisite artistic polish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Giving the child an encouraging look, intended to reassure her and let her know, that, although she stood in the presence of the original Jarley, she must not allow herself to be utterly overwhelmed and borne down, the lady of the caravan unfolded another scroll, whereon was the inscription, 'One hundred figures the full size of life,' and then another scroll, on which was written, 'The only stupendous collection of real wax-work in the world,' and then several smaller scrolls with such inscriptions as 'Now exhibiting within' 'The genuine and only Jarley' 'Jarley's unrivalled collection' 'Jarley is the delight of the Nobility and Gentry' 'The Royal Family are the patrons of Jarley.'
-- Nell said 'indeed' in a tone which might imply, either that she was reasonably surprised to find the genuine and only Jarley, who was the delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the peculiar pet of the Royal Family, destitute of these familiar arts; or that she presumed so great a lady could scarcely stand in need of such ordinary accomplishments.
-- The delight of the Nobility and Gentry and the patronised of Royalty had, by some process of self-abridgment known only to herself, got into her travelling bed, where she was snoring peacefully, while the large bonnet, carefully disposed upon the drum, was revealing its glories by the light of a dim lamp that swung from the roof.
-- The genuine and only Jarley exposed to public scorn, jeered by children, and flouted by beadles!The delight of the Nobility and Gentry shorn of a bonnet which a Lady Mayoress might have sighed to wear, and arrayed in a white sheet as a spectacle of mortification and humility!And Miss Monflathers, the audacious creature who presumed, even in the dimmest and remotest distance of her imagination, to conjure up the degrading picture, 'I am a'most inclined,' said Mrs Jarley, bursting with the fulness of her anger and the weakness of her means of revenge, 'to turn atheist when I think of it!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I will elevate you to the nobility with a rope!You can walk!"
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：
-- Their patents of nobility are too common to be certain that they bear the seal of true honor.'
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