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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was very sorry for all that had passed, and he recognized how foolish and how selfish it was that he should imagine that he could hold a beautiful woman like his sister to himself for her whole life.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced na-tive warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe.
-- 'This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes,' he added; 'but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden?
-- The eyes of the old man were closed, as though the or-gans were wearied with having so long witnessed the selfish workings of the human passions.
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：
-- I do not think he was any gentler here, less selfish or less brutal, but the circumstances were more favourable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet she was the innocent cause of all this torture, and he, gambling with such a savage thirst for gain as the most insatiable gambler never felt, had not one selfish thought!
-- Let us not believe that any selfish reference unconscious though it might have been to her own trials awoke this sympathy, but thank God that the innocent joys of others can strongly move us, and that we, even in our fallen nature, have one source of pure emotion which must be prized in Heaven!
-- 'A man of the name of Jerry, sir,' said Short, turning from his selfish colleague to their new acquaintance, 'wot keeps a company of dancing dogs, told me, in a accidental sort of way, that he had seen the old gentleman in connexion with a travelling wax-work, unbeknown to him.
-- Never, no, never once, in one unguarded moment from that time to the end, did any care for himself, any thought of his own comfort, any selfish consideration or regard distract his thoughts from the gentle object of his love.
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：
-- 'Selfish things!'
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：
-- But it isn't selfish at all.
-- And Rupert he had now reacted towards the strongly female, healthy, selfish woman it was his reaction for the time being there was no helping it all.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nelly, I see now you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was, he received and gave, irritated sometimes by the little displays of selfish indifference, pleased at times by some show of finery which supposedly made for dignity and social distinction.
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