homely是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 家庭的； 家常的，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：
-- Mary could not keep her eyes off his face, rough and homely though it was, and she wept for joy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they kept saying: 'Excuse our homely ways.'"
-- Veslovsky sang songs and related with enjoyment his adventures with the peasants, who had regaled him with vodka, and said to him, "Excuse our homely ways," and his night's adventures with kiss-in-the-ring and the servant-girl and the peasant, who had asked him was he married, and on learning that he was not, said to him, "Well, mind you don't run after other men's wives--you'd better get one of your own."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always calledher, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidablepersonage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had beenmarried to a husband younger than herself, who was veryhandsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, 'handsome is,that handsome does'- for he was strongly suspected of havingbeaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputedquestion of supplies, made some hasty but determinedarrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs' window.
-- I could not helpthinking even in that interval, I remember, what a noble fellow hewas in appearance, and how homely and plain Mr. Mell lookedopposed to him.
-- If Mr. Mell lookedhomely, in my eyes, before the handsome boy, it would be quiteimpossible to say how homely Mr. Creakle looked.
-- Itwas written with a plain, unaffected, homely piety that I knew tobe genuine, and ended with 'my duty to my ever darling'-meaning myself.
-- His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity andgenerosity.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree.
-- After that, when we went into supper, the place and the meal would have a more homely look than ever, and I would feel more ashamed of home than ever, in my own ungracious breast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They looked at Stephen's worn face, rendered more pathetic by the homely emotions it evinced; and, in the kindness of their nature, they were more sorry than indignant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was Mrs Meagles who had spoken to Mr Meagles; and Mrs Meagles was, like Mr Meagles, comely and healthy, with a pleasant English face which had been looking at homely things for five-and-fifty years or more, and shone with a bright reflection of them.
-- Mistress Affery looked on at Little Dorrit taking off her homely bonnet in the hall, and at Mr Flintwinch scraping his jaws and contemplating her in silence, as expecting some wonderful consequence to ensue which would frighten her out of her five wits or blow them all three to pieces.
-- The house was kept in a homely manner, and the condescension of Mr Blandois was infinite.
-- In the supper-room of last night, a new fire, piled upon the feathery ashes of the old one, shone upon a homely breakfast of loaves, butter, and milk.
-- She furled her fan of black and gold, and used it to tap her sister's nose; with the air of a proud beauty and a great spirit, who toyed with and playfully instructed a homely companion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a homely man, but they thought his face quite heavenly when he smiled and said, with a fa-therly look at them, 'Yes, my dears, I think the little girl will pull through this time.
-- I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel we can't help it even now, you see-and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when Sunday came, how differently the day was spent, from any way in which he had ever spent it yet!and how happily too; like all the other days in that most happy time!There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: and the sweet-smelling air stealing in at the low porch, and filling the homely building with its fragrance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She quite forgot Hurstwood's presence at times, and looked away to homely farmhouses and cosey cottages in villages with wondering eyes.
-- He swallowed and looked about, contemplating the dull, homely labour of the thing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The king said it was all the more homely and more pleasanter for these fix-ings, and so don't disturb them.
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