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：
-- And the men were so humble and craving.
-- Ivy Bolton's tricks and humble bossiness were also only too transparent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes Little Dorrit was employed at her needle, sometimes not, sometimes appeared as a humble visitor: which must have been her character on the occasion of his arrival.
-- No matter through what mistakes and discouragements, what ridicule (not unkindly meant, but deeply felt) of her youth and little figure, what humble consciousness of her own babyhood and want of strength, even in the matter of lifting and carrying; through how much weariness and hopelessness, and how many secret tears; she drudged on, until recognised as useful, even indispensable.
-- At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea presented herself to the dancing-master, with a little bag in her hand, and preferred her humble petition.
-- We'll entertain him as well as we can, in our humble way; and we shall not starve him, I hope, at all events.'
-- Though too humble before the ruler of his heart to be sanguine, Young John had considered the object of his attachment in all its lights and shades.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she spoke, Amy showed the handsome flask which replaced the cheap one, and looked so earnest and humble in her little effort to forget herself that Meg hugged her on the spot, and Jo pronounced her 'a trump', while Beth ran to the window, and picked her finest rose to ornament the stately bottle.
-- But, after a while, they found that he consid-ered them the benefactors, and could not do enough to show how grateful he was for Mrs. March's motherly wel-come, their cheerful society, and the comfort he took in that humble home of theirs.
-- With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain 'Your grateful friend and humble servant, 'JAMES LAURENCE' 'There, Beth, that's an honor to be proud of, I'm sure!
-- 'Your humble servant, James Laurence'.
-- President and ladies I beg pardon, gentlemen allow me to introduce myself as Sam Weller, the very humble servant of the club.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that same commander's cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the table; this is marvellous, sometimes most comical.
-- But most humble though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; hence, he now comes in person on this stage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
-- Hard by, was a little churchyard; not crowded with tall unsightly gravestones, but full of humble mounds, covered with fresh turf and moss: beneath which, the old people of the village lay at rest.
-- A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young.
-- 'Then, if your lot had been differently cast,' rejoined Rose; 'if you had been even a little, but not so far, above me; if I could have been a help and comfort to you in any humble scene of peace and retirement, and not a blot and drawback in ambitious and distinguished crowds; I should have been spared this trial.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed to suggest some herself some shelves in the closet upstairs.'
-- 'The garden in which stands my humble abode is sep-arated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence.'
-- But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and po-nies.'
-- In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiv-ing, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listen-er, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could.
-- They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he wel-comed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's of-fers of refreshment.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rainy season of the autumnal equinox was now come, and I kept the 30th of September in the same solemn manner as before, being the anniversary of my landing on the island, having now been there two years, and no more prospect of being delivered than the first day I came there, I spent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledg-ments of the many wonderful mercies which my solitary condition was attended with, and without which it might have been infinitely more miserable.
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