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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Put into plain words, the matter is this,' said he.
-- You see, for example, this great plain to the north here with the queer hills breaking out of it.
-- Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All you have to do is to announce me as Prince Muishkin, and the object of my visit will be plain enough.
-- But if he had made up his mind to put up with this sort of life for a while, it was only on the plain understand-ing with his inner self that he would very soon change it all, and have things as he chose again.
-- 'That is my plain duty, of course; but the prince what has he to do in the matter?'
-- One fact, at least, would have been perfectly plain to an outsider, had any such person been on the spot; and that was, that the prince had made a very considerable impres-sion upon the family, in spite of the fact that he had but once been inside the house, and then only for a short time.
-- She hates me that's the plain truth of the matter.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- BOOK II ow the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain Nslept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was think-ing how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.
-- They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming.
-- Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses.
-- As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes," said Kemp, "that is pretty plain sailing."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' But perhaps my meaning grows plain now.
-- It was plain enough at first on account of the crushed and broken bushes, white rags torn from the puma's bandages, and oc-casional smears of blood on the leaves of the shrubs and undergrowth.
-- He thought nothing of what was plain and comprehensible.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ra-vines.
-- Mowgli drove them on to the edge of the plain where the Waingunga came out of the jungle; then he dropped from Rama's neck, trotted off to a bamboo clump, and found Gray Brother.
-- Then evening comes and the children call, and the buffaloes lumber up out of the sticky mud with noises like gunshots going off one after the other, and they all string across the gray plain back to the twin-kling village lights.
-- Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Broth-er's back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.
-- That opens out on the plain not half a mile from here.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the high plain that there inter-posed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adven-turer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river be-came navigable to the tide.
-- In plain words, we know not where we are.'
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