selfish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 自私的， 利己的，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：
-- Hammond she didn't really like; he seemed so selfish in a mental way.
-- And if he had no sex, function-ally, all the better: so much the less to quarrel about!Hilda wanted no more of that sex business, where men became nasty, selfish little horrors.
-- 'And men like you,' she said, 'ought to be segregated: jus-tifying their own vulgarity and selfish lust.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Selfish brutes!'
-- In the constant effort not to be betrayed into a new phase of the besetting sin of his experience, the pursuit of selfish objects by low and small means, and to hold instead to some high principle of honour and generosity, there might have been a little merit.
-- In the resolution not even to avoid Mr Meagles's house, lest, in the selfish sparing of himself, he should bring any slight distress upon the daughter through making her the cause of an estrangement which he believed the father would regret, there might have been a little merit.
-- It was not a selfish fear or hesitation that rendered him uneasy, but a mistrust lest Pancks might not observe his part of the understanding between them, and, making any discovery, might take some course upon it without imparting it to him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo wasn't ashamed of the great tear that dropped off the end of her nose, and Amy never minded the rumpling of her curls as she hid her face on her mother's shoulder and sobbed out, 'I am a selfish girl!But I'll truly try to be better, so he mayn't be disappointed in me by-and-by.'
-- I only meant to change the little bottle for a big one, and I gave all my money to get it, and I'm truly trying not to be selfish any more.'
-- 'If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz,' complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fret-ting, and ennui.
-- Serve me right, selfish pig, to let you go, and stay writing rubbish myself!'
-- 'I've thought a great deal lately about my 'bundle of naughties', and being selfish is the largest one in it, so I'm going to try hard to cure it, if I can.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother,' said the young man, impatiently, 'he would be a selfish brute, unworthy alike of the name of man and of the woman you describe, who acted thus.'
-- They were mine, by day and night; and with them, came such a rushing torrent of fears, and apprehensions, and selfish regrets, lest you should die, and never know how devotedly I loved you, as almost bore down sense and reason in its course.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She went on: 'From the very beginning from the first moment, I may almost say of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of oth-ers, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dis-like; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be pre-vailed on to marry.'
-- 'You have no regard, then, for the honour and credit of my nephew!Unfeeling, selfish girl!Do you not consider that a connection with you must disgrace him in the eyes of everybody?'
-- Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding your's.
-- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
-- Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my par-ents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.
-- The whole family perceived it, and Mrs. Dashwood, attributing it to some want of liberality in his mother, sat down to table indignant against all selfish parents.
-- I have been always used to a very small income, and could struggle with any poverty for him; but I love him too well to be the selfish means of robbing him, perhaps, of all that his mother might give him if he married to please her.
-- Should the result of her observations be unfavourable, she was determined at all events to open the eyes of her sister; should it be otherwise, her exertions would be of a different nature she must then learn to avoid every selfish comparison, and banish every regret which might lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne.
-- To attach myself to your sister, therefore, was not a thing to be thought of; and with a meanness, selfishness, cruelty which no indignant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too much I was acting in this manner, trying to engage her regard, without a thought of returning it. But one thing may be said for me: even in that horrid state of selfish vanity, I did not know the extent of the injury I meditated, because I did not THEN know what it was to love.
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