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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As everyone exclaimed, and Beth hugged the cropped head tenderly, Jo assumed an indifferent air, which did not deceive anyone a particle, and said, rumpling up the brown bush and trying to look as if she liked it, 'It doesn't affect the fate of the nation, so don't wail, Beth.
-- She didn't like the new tone, for though not blase, it sounded indifferent in spite of the look.
-- He tried to resume his former easy, indifferent air, but it was an affecta-tion now, for the rousing had been more effacious than he would confess.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
-- Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance aye, chance, free will, and necessity nowise incompatible all interweavingly working together.
-- But one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah.
-- So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
-- Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent and without respect in all.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Her indifferent state of health unhappily prevents her being in town; and by that means, as I told Lady Catherine one day, has deprived the British court of its brightest or-naments.
-- To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imi-tations of china on the mantelpiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
-- He assured her, that as to dancing, he was per-fectly indifferent to it; that his chief object was by delicate attentions to recommend himself to her and that he should therefore make a point of remaining close to her the whole evening.
-- This was spoken jestingly; but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer, and therefore, abruptly changing the conversa-tion talked on indifferent matters until they reached the Parsonage.
-- That I was desirous of believing her indifferent is certain but I will venture to say that my in-vestigation and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?"
-- Do you suppose him really indifferent to her?"
-- It raises my influence much too high; the power of dividing two people so tenderly attached is too much for an indifferent person."
-- "'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment might justly have such weight with me.
-- They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her indifferent wandering she turned into Jackson Street, not far from the river, and was keeping her way along the south side of that imposing thoroughfare, when a piece of wrapping paper, written on with marking ink and tacked up on the door, attracted her attention.
-- She began to feel the part, and summoned an indifferent smile to her lips, turning as the lines directed and going to a window, as if he were not present.
-- In Mrs. Hurstwood it discoloured the very hue of her husband's indifferent nature.
-- For a long while she concerned herself over the arrangement of New York flats, and wondered at ten families living in one building and all remaining strange and indifferent to each other.
-- She saw the servant working at dinner with an indifferent eye.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he would do it just as indifferent as if he was order-ing up eggs.
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