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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon the nature of the soil changed; to the sandy plain succeeded an extent of slimy mud which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells.
-- We then travelled over a plain of seaweed of wild and luxuriant vegetation.
-- For one hour a plain of sand lay stretched before us.
-- He wound up the coast towards the west: then, fording some torrents, he gained the high plain that was bordered with admirable forests.
-- After passing through a moderately thick copse, we found a plain obstructed with bushes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hermione Roddice came up, in a handsome gown of white lace, trailing an enormous silk shawl blotched with great embroidered flowers, and balancing an enormous plain hat on her head.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
-- It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring.
-- I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.
-- He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
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