plain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 明白的； 朴素的； 坦率； 平凡n. 平原， 旷野，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：
-- It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.
-- It was made plain enough, by the dressing of the shops, that here too it was Christmas time again; but it was evening, and the streets were lighted up.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
-- Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.
-- Here, they were shown into a little room, where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine: while Carton sat oppo-site to him at the same table, with his separate bottle of port before him, and his fully half-insolent manner upon him.
-- Come on, and have it out in plain words!You hate the fellow.'
-- 'It's plain enough, I should think, why he may be.
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：
-- Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.
-- In that lady yonder, so strangely dressed, I should find for certain a large milliner's shop; in that one the shop is empty, but it wants cleaning plain enough.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family--the monkey.
-- In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
-- When he came out of the forest, in the immense plain before him, his grass fields stretched in an unbroken carpet of green, without one bare place or swamp, only spotted here and there in the hollows with patches of melting snow.
-- "But something was said in it: I am dying...." He read the telegram again, and suddenly the plain meaning of what was said in it struck him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a general disappointment among the passengers, who, without reckoning the delay, saw themselves compelled to trudge fifteen miles over a plain covered with snow.
-- As far as the eye could reach on the white plain behind, red trails were visible.
-- The plain was absolutely deserted.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to Martin it seemed a good deal like a plain roof.
-- "Aw, let 'em sit on plain chairs," Martin grunted.
-- may not have a lot of letters after his name, but he sees a slew of mysterious things that he can't explain, and I swear I believe most of these damn' alleged scientists could learn a whale of a lot from the plain country practitioners, let me tell you!"
-- No, I guess I'm nothing but just a plain scientist in an office.
-- Out of darkness Blackwater swung toward them, low flimsy barracks on a low swampy plain stinking of slimy mud.
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：
-- An awful scene took place between them on the spot in the garden; Marfa Petrovna went so far as to strike Dounia, refused to hear anything and was shouting at her for a whole hour and then gave orders that Dounia should be packed off at once to me in a plain peasant's cart, into which they flung all her things, her linen and her clothes, all pell-mell, without folding it up and packing it.
-- Early on the third day after the murder, when they were still dandling Koch and Pes-tryakov though they accounted for every step they took and it was as plain as a pikestaff- an unexpected fact turned up.
-- Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.
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