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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vanity, extravagance, love of change, restlessness of temper, which must be doing something, good or bad; heedlessness as to the pleasure of his father and Mrs. Weston, indifferent as to how his conduct might appear in general; he became liable to all these charges.
-- 'Well if you advise it. But (with a smile) if Colonel Campbell should have employed a careless friend, and if it should prove to have an indifferent tone what shall I say?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole were facts now bitterly remembered.
-- Taking no further interest in herself as a splendid woman, she acquired the indifferent feelings of an outsider in contemplating her probable fate as a singular wretch; for Bathsheba drew herself and her future in colours that no reality could exceed for darkness.
-- But as Oak was not only provokingly indifferent to public opinion, but a man who clung persistently to old habits and usages, simply because they were old, there was room for doubt as to his motives.
-- Men were shouting, dogs were barking, with greatest animation, but the thronging travellers in so long a journey had grown nearly indifferent to such terrors, though they still bleated piteously at the unwontedness of their experiences, a tall shepherd rising here and there in the midst of them, like a gigantic idol amid a crowd of prostrate devotees.
-- They had gone two or three miles in the moonlight, speaking desultorily across the wheel of her gig concerning the fair, farming, Oak's usefulness to them both, and other indifferent subjects, when Boldwood said suddenly and simply "Mrs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair.
-- As she was (very bad handwriting apart) a more than indifferent speller, and as Joe was a more than indifferent reader, extraordinary complications arose between them which I was always called in to solve.
-- Mr. Pocket had invested the Prince's treasure in the ways of the world ever since, and it was supposed to have brought him in but indifferent interest.
-- As to the quantity of wine, his post-office was as indifferent and ready as any other post-office for its quantity of letters.
-- It had seemed to me, in the many anxious considerations I had given the point, almost indifferent what port we made for,--Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp,--the place signified little, so that he was out of England.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I as-sured him, 'I had almost forgot what he meant by falsehood, and if I had lived a thousand years in Houyhnhnmland, I should never have heard a lie from the meanest servant; that I was altogether indifferent whether he believed me or not; but, however, in return for his favours, I would give so much allowance to the corruption of his nature, as to an-swer any objection he would please to make, and then he might easily discover the truth.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Publicly and privately, it were much better for the age in which he lived, that he and the legion of whom he was one were designedly bad, than indifferent and purposeless.
-- Nothing more was said on this theme, and Mr. Harthouse was soon idly gay on indifferent subjects.
-- Indifferent to the rain, and moving with a quick determined step, she struck into a side-path parallel with the ride.
-- The smoke-serpents were indifferent who was lost or found, who turned out bad or good; the melancholy mad elephants, like the Hard Fact men, abated nothing of their set routine, whatever happened.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The truth is, that my spirits rose so rapidly, that I began to be indifferent to what had once appeared to be a terrible journey.
-- Hans, with a perfectly calm and indifferent air, took his usual post at the head of the adventurous little band.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, indifferent to this distinction, propitiated the father by laughing and nodding at the daughter as often as she gave him anything; and, so soon as he had all his viands about him in convenient nooks of the ledge on which he rested, began to eat with an appetite.
-- He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra.
-- Being conversational, and in a reasonable flow of spirits, he then invited her attention to his coat as it hung behind the door: remarking that the Father of the place would set an indifferent example to his children, already disposed to be slovenly, if he went among them out at elbows.
-- 'My dear soul,' said Mrs Gowan, tapping the back of her friend's hand with this fan after a little indifferent conversation, 'you are my only comfort.
-- 'It is perfectly indifferent to me.'
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