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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
-- It's an insignificant part.
-- Because they were obvious and striking, I have written of his relations to women; and yet they were but an insignificant part of his life.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the passengers by this particular train were re- turning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various- oc cupations and degrees, picked up at the different stations nearer town.
-- Well, gentlemen, I suppose I must set a good example!What vex-es me much is that I am such an insignificant creature that it matters nothing to anybody whether I have done bad ac-tions or not!Besides, which am I to choose?
-- I am much too insignificant for that.
-- One of these cannibals, who had reached a good age, declared of his own free will that during the course of his long and mis-erable life he had personally killed and eaten, in the most profound secrecy, sixty monks, not to mention several chil-dren; the number of the latter he thought was about six, an insignificant total when compared with the enormous mass of ecclesiastics consumed by him.
-- He has eaten five or six children, a relatively insignificant number, nodoubt, but remarkable enough from another point of view.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally, some of the points were given in Sampson's favour, and some against him; and the upshot was, that, instead of being desired to travel for a time in foreign parts, he was permitted to grace the mother country under certain insignificant restrictions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was plain that all that is considered important and useful is really insignificant and wicked, and that all that splendor and luxury were hiding old crimes, familiar to every one, and not only stalking unpunished, but triumphing and adorned with all the allurements man is capable of conceiving.
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