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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
-- Indian blood was plain in her features, overbalancing the negroid characteristics.
-- All shades of red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty's plain redhair, Camilla's strawberry blonde, Randa's coppery auburn and small Betsy's carrot top.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.
-- And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
-- said Mr. Jaggers, warming the backs of his legs with the backs of his warmed hands, "I'll be plain with you, my friend Pip.
-- I see you there a many times, as plain as ever I see you on them misty marshes.
-- That the secret must be confided to Herbert as a matter of unavoidable necessity, even if I could have put the immense relief I should derive from sharing it with him out of the question, was plain to me.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The style is very plain and simple; and the only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travel-lers, is a little too circumstantial.
-- His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.
-- The clothes and food of the children are plain 69and simple.
-- It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter.
-- They are expressed in the most plain and simple terms, wherein those people are not mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation: and to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's pretty plain to me, he's off.'
-- They cared so little for plain Fact, these people, and were in that advanced state of degeneracy on the subject, that instead of being impressed by the speaker's strong common sense, they took it in extraordinary dudgeon.
-- To thpeak plain to you, my opinion ith that you had better cut it thort, and drop it.
-- Though it's plain to me.'
-- 'Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you (if it was a case of very plain sailing), I suppose from a thousand to fifteen hundred pound,' said Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which being translated from Icelandic into plain English means--"After."
-- CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS--THE "REYKIR" Stapi is a town consisting of thirty huts, built on a large plain of lava, exposed to the rays of the sun, reflected from the volcano.
-- Through the newly formed openings, escaped the marvelous mass of basaltic stones with which the plain we were now crossing was covered.
-- I looked down upon the plain below, and I saw a vast, a prodigious volume of pulverized pumice stone, of sand, of dust, rising to the heavens in the form of a mighty waterspout.
-- Upon the walls themselves I could clearly make out the outline, as plain as a sun picture, of the fucus and the lycopods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do assure you that I am, and do entreat you to believe that I am, in plain earnest.'
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