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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She came up after him, in the usual plain dress, and with the usual timid manner.
-- 'Upon which,' said Mr Meagles, 'as a practical man, I then and there, in that presence, took Doyce by the collar, and told him it was plain to me that he was an infamous rascal and treasonable disturber of the government peace, and took him away.
-- 'To the devil with this plain that has no end!To the devil with these stones that cut like knives!To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill!I hate you!'
-- It was plain enough, nevertheless, as Little Dorrit had said; over a lime-splashed gateway in the corner, within which Plornish kept a ladder and a barrel or two.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, I wouldn't, for the smart caps won't match the plain gowns without any trimming on them.
-- 'Suppose you learn plain cooking.
-- 'I'll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the din-ner party I have shall be a success.'
-- I don't let the girls hev coffee only once a week, accordin to your wish, and keep em on plain wholesome vittles.
-- If rank and money come with love and virtue, also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune, but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
-- Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that the street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on; I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat, and particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible.
-- Seeing himself placed next the Priest, and noting the ceremony, and thinking himself being Captain of a ship as having plain precedence over a mere island King, especially in the King's own house the Captain coolly proceeds to wash his hands in the punchbowl; taking it I suppose for a huge finger-glass.
-- Struck by this plain matter-of-fact question, I answered, saying, "Yes, I thought I did see four or five men; but it was too dim to be sure."
-- The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This made him wonder more and more; for it was plain from the replies of the two boys that they had both been there; and Oliver naturally wondered how they could possibly have found time to be so very industrious.
-- These words, in plain English, conveyed an injunction to ring the bell.
-- The phrase, rendered into plain English, signifieth, cleaning his boots.
-- 'There was two of 'em in it,' continued Blathers; 'and they had a boy with 'em; that's plain from the size of the window.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was ea-gerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.
-- Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.
-- Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of en-couraging such an attachment.
-- Her ladyship received them civilly, but it was plain that their company was by no means so acceptable as when she could get nobody else; and she was, in fact, almost en-grossed by her nephews, speaking to them, especially to Darcy, much more than to any other person in the room.
-- It was plain to them all that Colonel Fitzwilliam came because he had pleasure in their society, a persuasion which of course recommended him still more; and Elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in being with him, as well as by his evident admiration of her, of her former favourite George Wickham; and though, in comparing them, she saw there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's man-ners, she believed he might have the best informed mind.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melan-choly, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voy-age only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone 'Young man,' says he, 'you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.'
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