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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have a contempt for those people!Come and look at them."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an entirely new and hitherto unknown being who now sat and laughed at him, and informed him to his face that she had never had the faintest feeling for him of any kind, except loathing and contempt contempt which had followed closely upon her sensations of surprise and bewilderment after her first acquaintance with him.
-- He could not under-stand such a state of things, and was obliged to conclude that it was pride, the pride of an injured and imaginative woman, which had gone to such lengths that it preferred to sit and nurse its contempt and hatred in solitude rather than mount to heights of hitherto unattainable splendour.
-- Having remarked how difficult it was for him, of all people, to speak to her of these matters, Totski concluded by saying that he trusted Nasta-sia Philipovna would not look with contempt upon him if he now expressed his sincere desire to guarantee her future by a gift of seventy-five thousand roubles.
-- Gania looked at him with ironical contempt the while.
-- But the party led by the athlete, without openly showing their hostile intentions, silently nursed contempt and even hatred for Nastasia Philipovna, and marched into her house as they would have marched into an enemy's fortress.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with a touch of contempt which humiliated me, he and Montgomery turned and went on in silence before me.
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：
-- This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.
-- Heyward, who perceived that his superior took a mali-cious pleasure in exhibiting his contempt for the message of the French general, was fain to humor a spleen that he knew would be short-lived; he therefore, replied with as much in-difference as he could assume on such a subject: 'My request, as you know, sir, went so far as to presume to the honor of being your son.'
-- The old man made a gesture of resignation, though his rigid features still betrayed his obstinate adherence to a dis-trust, which he derived from a sort of hereditary contempt of his enemy, rather than from any present signs which might warrant so uncharitable a feeling.
-- 'The time may come when you will not consider the knife of a savage such a despicable vanity,' returned the scout, with a strong expression of contempt for the other's dullness.
-- Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue.
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：
-- "Oh, I think that's awfully subtle," said the Colonel, putting into the word all the contempt he felt for a quality so alien to the traditions of his calling.
-- His fellow-painters made no secret of their contempt for his work, but he earned a fair amount of money, and they did not hesitate to make free use of his purse.
-- I cannot describe the unmeasurable contempt he put into the two words.
-- There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this momentous crisis, Miss Cheggs proved herself a vigourous and useful ally, for not confining herself to expressing by scornful smiles a contempt for Mr Swiveller's accomplishments, she took every opportunity of whispering into Miss Sophy's ear expressions of condolence and sympathy on her being worried by such a ridiculous creature, declaring that she was frightened to death lest Alick should fall upon, and beat him, in the fulness of his wrath, and entreating Miss Sophy to observe how the eyes of the said Alick gleamed with love and fury; passions, it may be observed, which being too much for his eyes rushed into his nose also, and suffused it with a crimson glow.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have spoken to her with contempt and hatred, but suddenly remembered how often I myself have been guilty--am even now, although only in thought, of that for which I hated her, and suddenly I was seized with disgust for myself and pity for her, and I became very joyful.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That worthy fellow persisted in seeing in the Commander of the Nautilus one of those unknown savants who return mankind contempt for indifference.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexander the up-to-date host, so bloodlessly free-and-easy, Fr脙陇ulein so prettily chiming in just as she should, the little Italian Countess taking notice of everybody, only playing her little game, objective and cold, like a weasel watching everything, and extracting her own amusement, never giving herself in the slightest; then Miss Bradley, heavy and rather subservient, treated with cool, almost amused contempt by Hermione, and therefore slighted by everybody how known it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up the game.
-- And then she was filled with a fury of contempt and anger.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She met girls of her own age, who looked at her as if with contempt for her diffidence.
-- There was no disputing that, whatever he might think of him as a good fellow, he felt a certain amount of contempt for him as a lover.
-- It was very evident that he had a great contempt for any assumption of dignity or innocence on the part of these young women.
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