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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The last two words are plain enough.
-- The French document is decidedly the most complete of the three; but it is plain enough that each is the literal translation of the other, for they all contain exactly the same number of lines.
-- It rose on a plain in the form of a terrace, buttressed on volcanic rocks three hundred feet high.
-- Human beings there were none, not a native appeared; not even one of the GUASSOS, the degenerate offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain like a shadow, his flying steed dripping with blood from the cruel thrusts inflicted by the gigantic spurs of his master's naked feet.
-- They seized their weapons at once, and stationed themselves beside the Patagonian, who pointed toward the plain from whence the yelling resounded.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles's nervous system was strained to the breaking point.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I continued in the station I was now in, I had room for all the happy things to have yet be-fallen me for which my father so earnestly recommended a quiet, retired life, and of which he had so sensibly described the middle station of life to be full of; but other things at-tended me, and I was still to be the wilful agent of all my own miseries; and particularly, to increase my fault, and double the reflections upon myself, which in my future sor-rows I should have leisure to make, all these miscarriages were procured by my apparent obstinate adhering to my foolish inclination of wandering abroad, and pursuing that inclination, in contradiction to the clearest views of doing myself good in a fair and plain pursuit of those prospects, and those measures of life, which nature and Providence concurred to present me with, and to make my duty.
-- In search of a place proper for this, I found a little plain on the side of a rising hill, whose front towards this little plain was steep as a house-side, so that nothing could come down upon me from the top.
-- This plain was not above a hun-dred yards broad, and about twice as long, and lay like a green before my door; and, at the end of it, descended irreg-ularly every way down into the low ground by the seaside.
-- It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly sur-prised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In such a case, a plain and open avowal of his difficulties would have been more to his honour I think, as well as more consistent with his general character; but I will not raise objections against any one's conduct on so illiberal a foundation, as a difference in judgment from myself, or a deviation from what I may think right and consistent."
-- When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person. Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.
-- That Lucy was disposed to be jealous of her appeared very probable: it was plain that Edward had always spoken highly in her praise, not merely from Lucy's assertion, but from her venturing to trust her on so short a personal acquaintance, with a secret so confessedly and evidently important.
-- I heard him say all this as plain as could possibly be.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her own plain blue dress, with its black cotton tape trimmings, now seemed to her shabby.
-- It gave an imposing appearance to most of the wholesale houses, whose offices were upon the ground floor and in plain view of the street.
-- There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars, one of which he lighted.
-- It seems plain that schemers would choose more sequestered quarters to arrange their plans, that politicians would not gather here in company to discuss anything save formalities, where the sharp- eared may hear, and it would scarcely be justified on the score of thirst, for the majority of those who frequent these more gorgeous places have no craving for liquor.
-- She could not get at the points that were so serious, the things she was going to make plain to him.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard that just as plain as if the man was by my side.
-- 'Well, I think you're here, plain enough, but I think you're a tangle-headed old fool, Jim.'
-- 'But, Huck, it's all jis' as plain to me as ' 'It don't make no difference how plain it is; there ain't nothing in it.
-- He said we ought to bow when we spoke to him, and say 'Your Grace,' or 'My Lord,' or 'Your Lordship' and he wouldn't mind it if we called him plain 'Bridgewater,' which, he said, was a title anyway, and not a name; and one of us ought to wait on him at dinner, and do any little thing for him he wanted done.
-- So Mary Jane took us up, and she showed them their rooms, which was plain but nice.
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