trivial是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不重要的, 琐屑的; 平常的, 平凡的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these trivial incidents belonged to the routine of life, and the return of morning.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, friend, you should but try what it is to sit from one year's end to the oth-er occupied with and judging the most trivial matters.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were speaking of common acquaintances, keeping up the most trivial conversation, but to Kitty it seemed that every word they said was determining their fate and hers.
-- She felt so light-hearted and serene, she saw so clearly that all that had seemed to her so important on her railway journey was only one of the common trivial incidents of fashionable life, and that she had no reason to feel ashamed before anyone else or before herself.
-- There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.
-- Trivial as these two observations were, they perplexed her, and she had her doubts as to Madame Stahl.
-- This had jarred upon him then, and now her trivial cares and anxieties jarred upon him several times.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when, as advocate for Madeline, he pleaded that Leora was a trivial young woman who probably chewed gum in private and certainly was careless about her nails in public, her commonness was dear to the commonness that was in himself, valid as ambition or reverence, an earthy base to her gaiety as it was to his nervous scientific curiosity.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I knew it,' he muttered in confusion, 'I thought so!That's the worst of all!Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might spoil the whole plan.
-- 'Honoured sir, honoured sir,' cried Marmeladov recov-ering himself 'Oh, sir, perhaps all this seems a laughing matter to you, as it does to others, and perhaps I am only worrying you with the stupidity of all the trivial details of my home life, but it is not a laughing matter to me.
-- This trivial talk in a tavern had an immense influence on him in his later action; as though there had really been in it something preordained, some guiding hint芒聙娄.
-- Then a man may do nothing but harm to his neighbour in this world, and is prevented from do-ing the tiniest bit of good by trivial conventional formalities.
-- The most awful thought was that he had been actually almost lost, had almost done for himself on account of such a trivial cir-cumstance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to witherthe blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, can notbe renewed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a great talker upon little matters, which ex-actly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- She merely said, in the course of some trivial chat, 'Well, Har-riet, whenever you marry I would advise you to do so and so' and thought no more of it, till after a minute's silence 414 Emmashe heard Harriet say in a very serious tone, 'I shall never marry.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had tried to elude agitation by fixing her mind on the trees, sky, any trivial object before her eyes, whilst his reproaches fell, but ingenuity could not save her now.
-- She was set thinking a great deal about Oak and of his wish to shun her; and there occurred to Bathsheba several incidents of her latter intercourse with him, which, trivial when singly viewed, amounted together to a perceptible disinclination for her society.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mammy returned she would resume her lectureon Scarlett's breach of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter whenher heart was breaking.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone, and a blow of that sort had never touched her before.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical duties, such being the case with his comrades.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In our station-houses, men and women are every night confined on the most trivial charges--the word is worth noting--in dungeons, compared with which, those in Newgate, occupied by the most atrocious felons, tried, found guilty, and under sentence of death, are palaces.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.
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