insignificant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 无意义的； 低微的，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two or three insignificant facts, a hasty glance exchanged between him and the blacksmith at the Wimerra River, his unwillingness to cross towns and villages, his persistence about getting the DUNCAN summoned to the coast, the strange death of the animals entrusted to his care, and, lastly, a want of frankness in all his behavior—all these details combined had awakened the Major's suspicions.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There were many insignificant sums to individuals, and a large number of public charities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count them up: what then.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 19 Midmost of the black-soiled Iowa plain, watered only by a shallow and insignificant creek, the city of Nautilus bakes and rattles and glistens.
-- But the Director was as cordial to the insignificant Martin Arrowsmith as though Martin were a visiting senator.
-- I'll remember and not do it again!Such a fuss for a war record as insignificant as mine!What happened was: when the war broke out in '14 I was in England, studying under Sherrington.
-- II While he puttered his insignificant way through the early years of the Great European War, the McGurk Institute had a lively existence under its placid surface.
-- There were eight or ten Persons of Importance, male and female, looking insignificant but bearing names as familiar as Ivory Soap.
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：
-- Marfa Petrovna had not the slightest intention of settling anything substantial on him, having regard for his children's interests, and, if she left him anything, it would only be the merest sufficiency, something insignificant and ephemeral, which would not last a year for a man of his habits.'
-- Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cem-etery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 95We little thought, any one of us, I dare say, when I ate mybreakfast that first morning, and went to sleep under the shadowof the peacock's feathers to the sound of the flute, whatconsequences would come of the introduction into thosealmshouses of my insignificant person.
-- The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his church-warden's pewfor forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to experience mirth, but of too insignificant a kind to start enjoyment.
-- Miss Everdene, my opinion may be too forcibly let out to please you, and, for the matter of that, too insignificant to convince you, but surely it is honest, and why can't it be excused?"
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then their brother, who was a little insignificant dwarf, went out to seek for his brothers: but when he had found them they only laughed at him, to think that he, who was so young and simple, should try to travel through the world, when they, who were so much wiser, had been unable to get on.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turnings and windings, the no-thoroughfares, the marches and marches, turned that insignificant distance into at least three leagues.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance.
-- The head-stock and pit-bank of the mine itself were insignificant among the huge new installations.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It almost always happens, in these cases, that some insignificant matter pushes itself in front and makes much of itself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth pagans and all included can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood?
-- It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.
-- Humph!in my poor, insignificant opinion, I regard this as queer.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Right after came one of the insignificant members of the company, and she heard the changed tone of address.
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