benevolent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 乐善好施的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a surging of factions, a benevolent and winning buzz of scientists who desired to be the new Director of the Institute.
-- But at dawn he was nursing the sick in the bright new canvas village, showing mammies how to use their camp-stoves, and in a benevolent way discussing methods of poisoning ground squirrels in their burrows.
-- There was at the time, in certain places, a doubt as to how benevolent the United States had been to its Little Brothers--Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua--and the editors and politicians were grateful to Martin for this proof of their sacrifice and tender watchfulness.
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：
-- 'In the first place, because I can reason that I am one, and secondly, because for a month past I have been troubling benevolent Providence, calling it to witness that not for my own fleshly lusts did I undertake it, but with a grand and noble object ha-ha!Thirdly, because I aimed at carrying it out as justly as possible, weighing, measuring and calculating.
-- Pyotr Petrovitch delib-erately drew out a cambric handkerchief reeking of scent and blew his nose with an air of a benevolent man who felt himself slighted, and was firmly resolved to insist on an ex-planation.
-- (For Iknow, some benevolent people are very fond of decking out their charitable actions in that way.)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As this change stole on Annie, once like sunshine in the Doctor'shouse, the Doctor became older in appearance, and more grave;but the sweetness of his temper, the placid kindness of his manner,and his benevolent solicitude for her, if they were capable of anyincrease, were increased.
-- The Doctor nodded his benevolent head.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such an opinion, in confirmation of his own, Mr. Woodhouse hoped to influence every visitor of the new-ly married pair; but still the cake was eaten; and there was no rest for his benevolent nerves till it was all gone.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night, in its sad, solemn, and benevolent aspect, apart from its stealthy and cruel side, was personified in this form.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
-- My mother's tender caresses and my father's smile of benevolent plea-sure while regarding me are my first recollections.
-- Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottag-es of the poor.
-- Your father's health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be as-sured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent countenance.
-- M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condi-tion at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh, blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One person of mild and benevolent aspect even gave me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted up with a perfect sausage-shop of fetters, and entitled TO BE READ IN MY CELL.
-- It was right to do it, it was kind to do it, it was benevolent to do it, and he would do it again.'"
-- Pumblechook was now addressing the landlord, "and William!I have no objections to your mentioning, either up town or down town, if such should be your wishes, that it was right to do it, kind to do it, benevolent to do it, and that I would do it again."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shining bald head, which looked so very large because it shone so much; and the long grey hair at its sides and back, like floss silk or spun glass, which looked so very benevolent because it was never cut; were not, of course, to be seen in the boy as in the old man.
-- 'I heard from Flora,' said the Patriarch with his benevolent smile, 'that she was coming to call, coming to call.
-- he seemed to have done benevolent wonders.
-- Then Gowan asserting his rights as a disappointed man who had his grudge against the family, and who, perhaps, had allowed his mother to have them there, as much in the hope it might give them some annoyance as with any other benevolent object, aired his pencil and his poverty ostentatiously before them, and told them he hoped in time to settle a crust of bread and cheese on his wife, and that he begged such of them as (more fortunate than himself) came in for any good thing, and could buy a picture, to please to remember the poor painter.
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