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：
-- Whether the path was hardly distinguishable, whether it disappeared, or whether it lay beaten and plain before him, made no sensible differ-ence in his speed or certainty.
-- At the moment when the victors found them-selves unoccupied, the spot where these experienced and desperate combatants lay could only be distinguished by a cloud of dust and leaves, which moved from the center of the little plain toward its boundary, as if raised by the pas-sage of a whirlwind.
-- In this manner the scene of the combat was removed from the cen-ter of the little plain to its verge.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
-- She sat down and I began to chat with her; but, it was plain that her interest was in Strickland.
-- Her plain face with its narrow lips was tight, her skin was stretched tightly over her bones, her smile was tight, her hair was tight, her clothes were tight, and the white drill she wore had all the effect of black bombazine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were walking over yellowish calcinated earth, forming a plain of nearly a mile long, which extended to the edge of the wood.
-- The light and active boy then sprang on the first branches, the arrangement of which made the ascent of the kauri easy, and in a few minutes he arrived at the summit, which emerged from the immense plain of verdure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the plain question is, an't it a pity that this state of things should continue, and how much better would it be for the gentleman to hand over a reasonable amount of tin, and make it all right and comfortable?'
-- and yet for some hidden reason they were all angry with the widow, and each lady whispered in her neighbour's ear that it was very plain that said widow thought herself the person referred to, and what a puss she was!
-- 'It's very plain that the old man and I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.
-- 'It's equally plain that the money which the old flint rot him first taught me to expect that I should share with her at his death, will all be hers, is it not?'
-- 'Neighbour,' said Quilp glancing sternly at him, and beating his hand twice or thrice upon the table to attract his wandering attention, 'let me be plain with you, and play a fairer game than when you held all the cards, and I saw but the backs and nothing more.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, the world appeared to him as a mystery which he joyfully and enthusiastically tried to solve; now, everything in this world was plain and simple, and was determined by those conditions of life in which he found himself.
-- It is therefore plain that such boys will exist as long as the conditions producing these unfortunates remain unchanged.
-- It was plain that all that is considered important and useful is really insignificant and wicked, and that all that splendor and luxury were hiding old crimes, familiar to every one, and not only stalking unpunished, but triumphing and adorned with all the allurements man is capable of conceiving.
-- It was plain to Nekhludoff that these two were richly endowed by nature, and were only neglected and mutilated as plants are sometimes neglected and mutilated.
-- The first body, in a plain shirt, was that of a tall young man, with a small, pointed beard and half-shaven head.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's plain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully.
-- That's plain enough."
-- "For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough.
-- Suppose you found an inscription, with sentences here and there in excellent plain English, and interpolated therewith, others made up of words, of letters even, absolutely unknown to you?
-- It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.
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