sensitive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 敏感的; 过敏的, 容易生气的; (仪器) 灵敏的，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：
-- There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes.
-- She had a proud, finely cut face, so regular that it might have seemed impassive were it not for the sensitive mouth and the beautiful dark, eager eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is very happy to be here; but I think perhaps it would be better if you let him alone for today, he is very sensitive now that he is so ill and he might be embarrassed if you show him too much attention at first.
-- Whether she were a woman who had read too many po-ems, as Evgenie Pavlovitch supposed, or whether she were mad, as the prince had assured Aglaya, at all events, this was a woman who, in spite of her occasionally cynical and audacious manner, was far more refined and trustful and sensitive than appeared.
-- 'She is very sensitive and easily put out, of course; but still, she...' 'She is worthy of sympathy?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Evidently he was sensitive on the topic of operations and bandages.
-- Mrs. Hall was sensitive on the point.
-- Her visitor had had an accident, she said, which temporarily discoloured his face and hands, and being of a sensitive disposition, he was averse to any public notice of the fact.
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：
-- Clifford was almost morbidly sensitive about these sto-ries.
-- She saw it in his bent head, the quick quiet hands, the crouching of his slender, sensitive loins; something patient and withdrawn.
-- Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the PASSIONAL secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.
-- Connie kept him apart, and made him sensitive and conscious of himself and his own states.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am sensitive and brave.
-- I do not advance it as a merit to be sensitive and brave, but it is my character.
-- You know that I am sensitive and brave, and that it is my character to govern.
-- As to nerves, Mr Merdle is of a cool temperament, and not a sensitive man: is about as invulnerable, I should say, as Achilles.
-- His obtuseness on the great Testimonial question was not calculated to awaken admiration in the paternal breast, but had rather a tendency to give offence in that sensitive quarter, and to be regarded as a positive shortcoming in point of gentlemanly feeling.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive little girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the purest and most amiable generosity on one side; and the truest, warmest, soul-felt gratitude on the other; it is no wonder that, by the end of that short time, Oliver Twist had become completely domesticated with the old lady and her niece, and that the fervent attachment of his young and sensitive heart, was repaid by their pride in, and attachment to, himself.
-- 'Harry,' said Mrs. Maylie, 'it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Happy with a man of libertine practices! With one who so injured the peace of the dearest of our friends, and the best of men! No my Marianne has not a heart to be made happy with such a man! Her conscience, her sensitive conscience, would have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But women are peculiarly sensitive to their adornment.
-- As a matter of fact, no man as clever as Hurstwood--as observant and sensitive to atmospheres of many sorts, particularly upon his own plane of thought--would have made the mistake which he did in regard to his wife, wrought up as she was, had he not been occupied mentally with a very different train of thought.
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