indifferent是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 不感兴趣的, 不关心的, 质量不高的,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Well!If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow, and a fellow of such indifferent reputation, coming and going at odd times, I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as an use-less (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.
-- The man slept on, indifferent to showers of hail and -in326 A tale of two citiestervals of brightness, to sunshine on his face and shadow, to the paltering lumps of dull ice on his body and the dia-monds into which the sun changed them, until the sun was low in the west, and the sky was glowing.
-- All such circumstances were indifferent to him, so that he did his duty.
-- The miserable shop of the wood-sawyer was so small, that its whole surface furnished very indifferent space for this legend.
-- As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
-- Whether it was that the children were fickle, or that they had acute senses, and felt that Anna was quite different that day from what she had been when they had taken such a fancy to her, that she was not now interested in them,--but they had abruptly dropped their play with their aunt, and their love for her, and were quite indifferent that she was going away.
-- The government obviously is guided by abstract considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise.
-- Golenishtchev had been contemptuously indifferent to the tone taken by Vronsky.
-- For the few seconds during which the visitors were gazing at the picture in silence Mihailov too gazed at it with the indifferent eye of an outsider.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the hospital, death had become indifferent and natural to Martin.
-- The stenographer was waiting to take letters, and Martin had not yet learned to become impersonal and indifferent in her presence.
-- It was confusing to find that where Leora had acidly claimed sex- loyalty but had hummingly not cared in what manner he might say Good Morning, Joyce was indifferent as to how many women he might have fondled (so long as he did not insult her by making love to them in her presence) but did require him to say Good Morning as though he meant it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Raskolnikov fancied that the head clerk treated him more casually and contemptuously after his speech, but strange to say he suddenly felt completely indifferent to anyone's opinion, and this revulsion took place in a flash, in one in-stant.
-- He cast a drowsy and indifferent glance at Svidriga脙炉lov.
-- She wrote that his health was satisfactory; he did his work without shirk-ing or seeking to do more; he was almost indifferent about food, but except on Sundays and holidays the food was so bad that at last he had been glad to accept some money from her, Sonia, to have his own tea every day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Under these encouraging circumstances, I repliedthat I was very well, and that I hoped she was the same; with suchan indifferent grace, that Miss Murdstone disposed of me in twowords'Wants manner!'
-- If he is not- and you tell me he is not;on any pretence; it is indifferent to me what- my doors are shutagainst him henceforth, and yours, I take it for granted, are open tohim.'
-- My aunt, who was perfectly indifferent to public opinion, drovethe grey pony through Dover in a masterly manner; sitting highand stiff like a state coachman, keeping a steady eye upon himwherever he went, and making a point of not let- ting him havehis own way in any respect.
-- I was still painfully conscious of my youth,for nobody stood in any awe of me at all: the chambermaid beingutterly indifferent to my opinions on any subject, and the waiterbeing familiar with me, and offering advice to my inexperience.
-- When I see how perfectly youunderstand them, how exquisitely you can enter into happinesslike this plain fisherman's, or humour a love like my old nurse's, Iknow that there is not a joy or sorrow, not an emotion, of suchpeople, that can be indifferent to you.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.
-- Time, she knew, must be allowed for this being thorough-ly done; and she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them.
-- You, who have been hearing and seeing so much of late on these subjects, who must have been so deep in the business on Miss Campbell's account we shall not excuse your being indifferent about Mr. Elton and Miss Hawkins.'
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