humble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 谦卑的, 恭顺的; 地位低下的; 简陋的; vt. 使卑下, 贬抑，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：
-- At last, it began to get about, among such as were interested in the matter, that although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal, and that he rendered suit and service to Stryver in that humble capacity.
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：
-- This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that pro-ceed he must.
-- 'But there we shall not meet,' said the King's Son, nod-ding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm much obliged for the gratification, my humble respects'--that's all the tragedy.
-- Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread.
-- And on Vronsky's face, always so firm and independent, she saw that look that had struck her, of bewilderment and humble submissiveness, like the expression of an intelligent dog when it has done wrong.
-- "She's a nice girl" were such simple, humble words, so out of harmony with his feeling.
-- He felt that besides the blessed spiritual force controlling his soul, there was another, a brutal force, as powerful, or more powerful, which controlled his life, and that this force would not allow him that humble peace he longed for.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, you will learn the properties of drugs and the contents of prescriptions BECAUSE I TELL YOU TO!If I did not hesitate to waste the time of the other members of this class, I would try to convince you that my statements may be accepted, not on my humble authority, but because they are the conclusions of wise men--men wiser or certainly a little older than you, my friend--through many ages.
-- I am helpless; I am but their Humble Servant.
-- Here's a placard, it was painted by my daughter Orchid and the poetry is my own humble effort, and let me tell you it gets quoted around everywhere: You can't get health By a pussyfoot stealth, So let's every health-booster Crow just like a rooster.
-- Till he had sunk in coma, Ira had nursed and blessed his people, the humble colored congregation in the hot tin chapel which he had now turned into a pest-house.
-- Martin was aware of the bright leering of the once humble reception-clerk.
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：
-- Herewith expressing my special respect to your estimable daughter, Avdotya Ro-manovna, I beg you to accept the respectful homage of 'Your humble servant, 'P.
-- Here was a girl of pride, character, virtue, of education and breeding superior to his own (he felt that), and this creature would be slavishly grateful all her life for his heroic condescension, and would humble herself in the dust before him, and he would have absolute, unbounded power over her!芒聙娄 Not long before, he had, too, after long reflection and hesitation, made an important change in his career and was now entering on a wider circle of business.
-- But I wonder shall I in those fifteen or twenty years grow so meek that I shall humble myself before people and whimper at ev-ery word that I am a criminal?
-- He was ashamed just be-cause he, Raskolnikov, had so hopelessly, stupidly come to grief through some decree of blind fate, and must humble 756 Crime and Punishmenthimself and submit to 'the idiocy' of a sentence, if he were anyhow to be at peace.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We went the nearest way, without conversing much upon the road;and he was so humble in respect of those scarecrow gloves, that hewas still putting them on, and seemed to have made no advance inthat labour, when we got to my place.
-- 'Since you oblige me to speak moreplainly, which I am very unwilling to do, her humble connectionswould render such a thing impossible, if nothing else did.'
-- She looked neither at him nor at me, but stoodin a humble attitude, holding her bonnet and shawl in one hand,without appearing conscious of them, and pressing the other,clenched, against her forehead.
-- A moment afterwards, he was asfawning and as humble as ever.
-- 'My dear Madam,' returned Mr. Micawber,'perhaps I cannot better express the conclusion at which Mrs.Micawber, your humble servant, and I may add our children, havejointly and severally arrived, than by borrowing the language of anillustrious poet, to reply that our Boat is on the shore, and our Barkis on the sea.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her good-nature, too, is not so very slight a claim, comprehending, as it does, real, thorough sweetness of temper and manner, a very humble opinion of herself, and a great readiness to be pleased with other people.
-- She might never have thought of him but for me; and certainly never would have thought of him with hope, if I had not assured her of his at-tachment, for she is as modest and humble as I used to think him.
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