haughty是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 傲慢的, 轻蔑的,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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "She was a proud haughty lady when she came into these parts my word, she was that!She mustn't be looked at, and it was worth your life to speak to her."
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Wolf was evidently offended by the speech; he twitched nervously, changed color, made silent gestures of wonder, and with an haughty air of being offended he departed with the other Senators into the deliberation-room.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- From the shock of this unexpected blow the haughty feel-ings of Munro never recovered; but from that moment there commenced a change in his determined character, which accompanied him to a speedy grave.
-- His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene.
-- His high and haughty carriage was not lost on his captors, who often bent their looks on his person, with eyes which, while they lost none of their in-flexibility of purpose, plainly betrayed their admiration of the stranger's daring.
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