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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was wearing a very plain indoor dress, and had on a shabby old- fashioned hat, but she still carried a parasol.
-- On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not helpthinking even in that interval, I remember, what a noble fellow hewas in appearance, and how homely and plain Mr. Mell lookedopposed to him.
-- Barkis is agood plain creatur',' said Peggotty, 'and if I tried to do my duty byhim, I think it would be my fault if I wasn't- if I wasn't prettycomfortable,' said Peggotty, laughing heartily.
-- Herhair, which was grey, was arranged in two plain divisions, underwhat I believe would be called a mob-cap; I mean a cap, muchmore common then than now, with sidepieces fastening under thechin.
-- You don't suppose, I hope, thatyou are the only plain dealer in the world?'
-- I am lost in the recollectionof this delicious interview, and the waltz, when she comes to meagain, with a plain elderly gentleman, who has been playing whistall night, upon her arm, and says'Oh, here is my bold friend.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now.
-- I see the dif-ference plain enough.
-- 'How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended.
-- Chapter IIIEmma could not forgive her; but as neither provocation nor resentment were discerned by Mr. Knightley, who had been of the party, and had seen only proper attention and pleasing behaviour on each side, he was expressing the next morning, being at Hartfield again on business with Mr. Woodhouse, his approbation of the whole; not so openly as he might have done had her father been out of the room, but speaking plain enough to be very intelligible to Emma.
-- Emma watched them in, and then joined Harriet at the interesting counter, trying, with all the force of her own 284 Emmamind, to convince her that if she wanted plain muslin it was of no use to look at figured; and that a blue ribbon, be it ever so beautiful, would still never match her yellow pattern.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "P-p-p-p-p-pl-pl-pl-pl-l-l-l-l-ease, ma'am, p-p-p-p-pl-pl- pl-pl-please, ma'am-please'm-please'm ""'A's a stammering man, mem," said Henery Fray in an undertone, "and they turned him away because the only time he ever did speak plain he said his soul was his own, and other iniquities, to the squire.
-- Why, 'twas about being baily really; but I didn't put it so plain that she could understand my meaning, so I could lay it on all the stronger.
-- It would be a poor plain ballet of my own composure."
-- Because a plain blunt man, who has never been taught concealment, speaks out his mind without exactly intending it, he's to be snapped off like the son of a sinner."
-- "I know this, th-th-that he is a thoroughly conscientious man blunt sometimes even to rudeness but always speaking his mind about you plain to your face!"
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It became plain to her at once that there was _some other attraction_, to use her own expression.
-- His plain good sense led him to accept the position of President of the Section, so as to secure for his business the protection of those in power at that dangerous epoch.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
-- But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.'
-- How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my fail-ing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brentliked India but he thought her mighty plain and tame, and he simply could not fall in love with her himself to keepStuart company.
-- Scarlett recalled withcontempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
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