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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and re-pressing imagination all the rest of her life.
-- 'Aye, that may suit your humble ideas of yourself; I know what a modest creature you are; but it will not satisfy your friends to have you taking up with any thing that may offer, any in-ferior, commonplace situation, in a family not moving in a certain circle, or able to command the elegancies of life.'
-- It was badly done, indeed!You, whom she had known from an infant, whom she had seen grow up from a period when her notice was an honour, to have you now, in thoughtless spirits, and the pride of the moment, laugh at her, humble her and before her niece, too and before others, many of whom (certainly some,) would be entirely guided by your treatment of her. This is not pleasant to you, Emma and it is very far from pleasant to me; but I must, I will, I will tell you truths while I can; 458 Emmasatisfied with proving myself your friend by very faithful counsel, and trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, for oncein his life, he was utterly humble when Ellen, very white but very calm, put a light hand on his arm and said: "I willmarry you, Mr.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
-- The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
-- "To think," said Mr. Pumblechook, after snorting admiration at me for some moments, "that I should have been the humble instrument of leading up to this, is a proud reward."
-- You little thought you was to be refreshment beneath this humble roof for one as--Call it a weakness, if you will," said Mr. Pumblechook, getting up again, "but may I?
-- The nooks of ruin where the old monks had once had their refectories and gardens, and where the strong walls were now pressed into the service of humble sheds and stables, were almost as silent as the old monks in their graves.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion to be left to every man's conscience, or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to determine.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
-- About three weeks after this exploit, there arrived a sol-emn embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of a peace, which was soon concluded, upon conditions very advan-tageous to our emperor, wherewith I shall not trouble the reader.
-- When I had for some time entertained their excellencies, to their infinite satisfaction and surprise, I desired they would do me the honour to present my most humble re-spects to the emperor their master, the renown of whose virtues had so justly filled the whole world with admiration, and whose royal person I resolved to attend, before I re-turned to my own country.
-- All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands to-gether in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hate-ful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Please to turn your humble eye in My direction.'
-- She was so humble withal, that when Louisa appeared, she rose, protesting she never could think of sitting in that place under existing circumstances, often as she had had the honour of making Mr. Bounderby's breakfast, before Mrs. Gradgrind she begged pardon, she meant to say Miss Bounderby she hoped to be excused, but she really could not get it right yet, though she trusted to become familiar with it by and by had assumed her present position.
-- Would you have robbed me for no one's enrichment only for the greater desolation of this world of the immaterial part of my life, the spring and summer of my belief, my refuge from what is sordid and bad in the real things around me, my school in which I should have learned to be more humble and more trusting with them, and to hope in my little sphere to make them better?'
-- Never!For shame on you!My dear boy knows, and will give you to know, that though he come of humble parents, he come of parents that loved him as dear as the best could, and never thought it hardship on themselves to pinch a bit that he might write and cipher beautiful, and I've his books at home to show it!Aye, have I!'
-- It appears to me, that, under my humble roof, there's hardly opening enough for a lady of your genius in other people's affairs.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stretches its humble tenements along the end of a little fjord, surrounded by a basaltic wall of the most singular character.
-- We had not gone many hundred yards, when we came upon a mighty group of other trees with discolored leaves--the common humble trees of Mother Earth, of an exorbitant and phenomenal size: lycopods a hundred feet high; flowering ferns as tall as pines; gigantic grasses!
-- Behold the humble plants of our gardens, which in the first ages of the world were mighty trees.
-- After about two hours of hard work, I, one day, sat down by a stream to eat my humble but copious lunch.
-- It was therefore necessary to pass for humble and unfortunate shipwrecked travelers.
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