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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you've made a fool of yourself you must eat humble pie.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sir, I am your humble servant,' said Mr Quilp, to whom the monosyllable was addressed.
-- 'Why, sir,' returned Dick, 'between Miss Sophia Wackles and the humble individual who has now the honor to address you, warm and tender sentiments have been engendered, sentiments of the most honourable and inspiring kind.
-- They were alone together, once again; every object was bright and fresh; nothing reminded them, otherwise than by contrast, of the monotony and constraint they had left behind; church towers and steeples, frowning and dark at other times, now shone in the sun; each humble nook and corner rejoiced in light; and the sky, dimmed only by excessive distance, shed its placid smile on everything beneath.
-- This was a wide, wide track for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile but its character was still the same.
-- Shunning the tombs, it crept about the mounds, beneath which slept poor humble men: twining for them the first wreaths they had ever won, but wreaths less liable to wither and far more lasting in their kind, than some which were graven deep in stone and marble, and told in pompous terms of virtues meekly hidden for many a year, and only revealed at last to executors and mourning legatees.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I know it's very ignorant of me,' Alice said, in so humble a tone that Humpty Dumpty relented.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I don't feel a bit like a humble and pathetic ugly duckling.
-- There were no more poor and injured and humble to protect and succour.
-- He, the rich man who would hardly enter heaven because of his possessions, must now turn upon the poor, upon those who were nearer Christ than himself, those who were humble and despised and closer to perfection, those who were manly and noble in their labours, and must say to them: "Ye shall neither labour nor eat bread."
-- Let him be her man utterly, and she in return would be his humble slave whether she wanted it or not.
-- She watched him in humble submissiveness.
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