detract是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 降低，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your picture is so fine that my observation cannot detract from it, and, besides, it is only my personal opinion.
-- That's the only thing I can say against my feeling.... That's a great thing," Sergey Ivanovitch said to himself, feeling at the same time that this consideration had not the slightest importance for him personally, but would only perhaps detract from his romantic character in the eyes of others.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My boy, we may have found the real thing--another salvarsan!We'll publish together!We'll have the whole world talking!Why, I lay awake last night thinking of our magnificent opportunity!In a few months we may be curing not only staph infections but typhoid, dysentery!Martin, as your colleague, I do not for a moment wish to detract from the great credit which is yours, but I must say that if you had been more closely allied with Me you would have extended your work to practical proofs and results long before this."
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：
-- Av-dotya Romanovna was remarkably good looking; she was tall, strikingly well-proportioned, strong and self-reliant the latter quality was apparent in every gesture, though it did not in the least detract from the grace and softness of her movements.
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：
-- Why should Gerald even dislike it, why did it seem to him to detract from his own dignity.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I 138 Gulliver's Travelsshall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be al-lowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
-- A strange effect of narrow principles and views!that a prince possessed of every quality which procures venera-tion, love, and esteem; of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with admirable talents, and almost adored by his subjects, should, from a nice, unneces-sary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands that would have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the fortunes of his people!Neither do I say this, with the least intention to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character, I am sensible, will, on this account, be very much lessened in the opinion of an English reader: but I take this defect among them to have risen from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they would have been improved by some share of his frankness and warmth; and her visit was long enough to detract something from their first admiration, by shewing that, though perfectly well-bred, she was reserved, cold, and had nothing to say for herself beyond the most common-place inquiry or remark.
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