harmless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 无害的， 无恶意的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm, and floated on, outpouring, with a generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on ev-erything within its reach.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rising and looking out of window at these harmless objects, Mr. Lorry shivered, and retired to his seat by the fire.
-- In the universal fear and distrust that darkened the time, all the usual harmless ways of life were changed.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First I was a poet; now sold for a few pence as a lark; no doubt it was that accursed poetical nature which has metamorphosed me into such a poor harmless little creature.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had studied the forms of bacteria, they had handled Petri dishes and platinum loops, they had proudly grown on potato slices the harmless red cultures of Bacillus prodigiosus, and they had come now to pathogenic germs and the inoculation of a living animal with swift disease.
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：
-- 'No, I see you don't believe me, you think I am playing a harmless joke on you,' Porfiry began again, getting more and more lively, chuckling at every instant and again pac-ing round the room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, I must say that the generosity of herchampionship of poor harmless Mr. Dick, not only inspired myyoung breast with some selfish hope for myself, but warmed itunselfishly towards her.
-- But it was not vanity; it was only harmless delight in myadmiration.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
-- She was a great talker upon little matters, which ex-actly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
-- Were she a woman of fortune, I would leave every harmless absurdity to take its chance, I would not quarrel with you for any liberties of manner.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On you it rests, whether I quit forever the neighbourhood of man and lead a harmless life, or be-come the scourge of your fellow creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin.'
-- To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can be-fall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a con-dition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
-- I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal preju-dice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.'
-- Our lives will not be happy, but they 175will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, andshe prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made bold to tell her majesty, 'that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which ob-ligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
-- For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a harmless lizard, but it appeared to me a loathsome reptile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was even the later addition of a conservatory sheltering itself against it, uncertain of hue in its deep-stained glass, and in its more transparent portions flashing to the sun's rays, now like fire and now like harmless water drops; which might have stood for Tattycoram.
-- In the beginning of this dialogue, Clennam had expected some great harmless outburst from Mr Meagles, like that which had made him burst out of the Circumlocution Office, holding Doyce by the collar.
-- The most striking of these was perhaps the relishing manner in which he remarked on the pensioner's infirmities and failings, as if he were a gracious Keeper making a running commentary on the decline of the harmless animal he exhibited.
-- Having dried them, and indulged in the harmless luxury of a sob and a sniff, he put it up again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and em-ployed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
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