contempt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 轻蔑, 不尊敬, 轻视，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was right, for Levin actually could not bear her, and despised her for what she was proud of and regarded as a fine characteristic--her nervousness, her delicate contempt and indifference for everything coarse and earthly.
-- Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family.
-- The doctor was meantime with difficulty restraining the expression of his contempt for this old gentleman, and with difficulty condescending to the level of his intelligence.
-- "Your tone of contempt for us poor townsfolk!...
-- Nodding with an air of lofty contempt to the two officers, he went up to Vronsky.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned, in contempt of all justice?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, in melancholy worry about his own unreasonableness, he found that he was developing the same contempt for Robertshaw's rules of the thumb--and for most of the work in anatomy.
-- I had to laugh at one old hen, Bostonian or somepun, who was howling that your letter was "undignified"!Can you beat it!I think people as hypercritical and lacking in humor as her should be treated with the dignified contempt they deserve, the damn fool!
-- Her easy life here had seemed tasteless after the risks of St. Hubert, and in his contempt for ease and rewards she found exhilaration.
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：
-- But there was such accu-mulated bitterness and contempt in the young man's heart, that, in spite of all the fastidiousness of youth, he minded his rags least of all in the street.
-- At the other persons in the room, includ-ing the tavern- keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.
-- He glanced timidly at Avdotya Romanovna, but her proud countenance wore at that moment an expres-sion of such gratitude and friendliness, such complete and unlooked-for respect (in place of the sneering looks and ill-disguised contempt he had expected), that it threw him into greater confusion than if he had been met with abuse.
-- His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his 'cow-ardice.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His supreme contempt for his own limbs, as he sat smoking,was one of the pleasantest oddities I have ever encountered.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In those earlier days she had always nourished a secret contempt for girls who were the slaves of the first good-looking young fellow who should choose to salute them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.
-- He heard with attention the little narration concerning my studies and smiled at the names of Corne-lius Agrippa and Paracelsus, but without the contempt that M. Krempe had exhibited.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was frank contempt in Jeems' voice.
-- There was much about the South andSoutherners that he would never comprehend; but, with the wholeheartedness that was his nature, he adopted its ideasand customs, as he understood them, for his own poker and horse racing, red-hot politics and the code duello, States'Rights and damnation to all Yankees, slavery and King Cotton, contempt for white trash and exaggerated courtesy towomen.
-- He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, soinadequately covered by their courtesy.
-- Scarlett, looking at him with the affectionate contempt that mothers feel for small swaggering sons, knew that hewould be very drunk by sundown.
-- However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt andcast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett inpleased bewilderment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
-- There was an expression of contempt on his face, and he bit the side of a great forefinger as he watched the group of faces.
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