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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is said to have about seven lawsuits upon his hands at present, which will probably swallow up the remainder of his fortune and so draw his sting and leave him harmless for the future.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're right, clerk,' said the latter, 'you're right, tipsy spir-it you're right! Nastasia Philipovna,' he added, looking at her like some lunatic, harmless generally, but suddenly wound up to a pitch of audacity, 'here are eighteen thou-sand roubles, and and you shall have more .'
-- As for the letters N.P.B., he looked on that as a harmless joke, a mere childish piece of mischief so childish that he felt it would be shameful, almost dishon- ourable, to attach any importance to it.
-- And we must not suppose that all this is harmless and without danger to ourselves.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet another view explained the entire matter by regarding the stranger as a harmless lunatic.
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：
-- Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger, Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an intention of making his offers of compensa-tion more definite, when the white man, motioning with his hand, as if he conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying in a sort of soliloquy, and in the English tongue: 'Uncas is right!it would not be the act of men to leave such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks up the harboring place forever.
-- This shot that you see,' added the scout, kicking the harmless iron with his foot, 'has plowed the 'arth in its road from the fort, and we shall hunt for the furrow it has made, when all other signs may fail.
-- He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably propor-tioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolu-tion, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
-- Winters and summer, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be said that Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand There is but a single Ruler of us all, whatever may the color of the skin; and Him I call to witness, that before the Mo-hican boy shall perish for the want of a friend, good faith shall depart the 'arth, and 'killdeer' become as harmless as the tooting we'pon of the singer!'
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：
-- Looking back, I think that Mrs. Strickland was the most harmless of all the lion-hunters that pursue their quarry from the rarefied heights of Hampstead to the nethermost studios of Cheyne Walk.
-- A pleasant, hospitable woman, with a harmless craze for the small lions of literary society; a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him; two nice-looking, healthy children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was very patient and willing, happy to execute any little task, and glad to be of use; but he was in the same listless state, with no prospect of improvement a mere child a poor, thoughtless, vacant creature a harmless fond old man, susceptible of tender love and regard for her, and of pleasant and painful impressions, but alive to nothing more.
-- This was not the gambler, or the shadow in her room; this was not even the worn and jaded man whose face had so often met her own in the grey morning light; this was her dear old friend, her harmless fellow-traveller, her good, kind grandfather.
-- 'I don't believe, mother, that harmless cheerfulness and good humour are thought greater sins in Heaven than shirt-collars are, and I do believe that those chaps are just about as right and sensible in putting down the one as in leaving off the other that's my belief.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought that it was a harmless powder.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you, you worthless ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter in law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash .
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!how that harmless question mangles Jonah!For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
-- Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod.
-- But taking advantage of his windward position, he again seized his trumpet, and knowing by her aspect that the stranger vessel was a Nantucketer and shortly bound home, he loudly hailed "Ahoy there!This is the Pequod, bound round the world!Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!and this time three years, if I am not at home, tell them to address them to "At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then, in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish, that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side, darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks.
-- But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself.
-- Yet was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human recognition which is the meanest slave's right; thus treated, this Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well -disposed or harmless errands.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so: Sick Arab but harmless when not out of his head.
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