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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which or the spot must be a wretched one indeed cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree.
-- The furniture of the room was very homely of course a few rough chairs and a table, a corner cupboard with their little stock of crockery and delf, a gaudy tea-tray, representing a lady in bright red, walking out with a very blue parasol, a few common, coloured scripture subjects in frames upon the wall and chimney, an old dwarf clothes-press and an eight-day clock, with a few bright saucepans and a kettle, comprised the whole.
-- There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
-- At any other time, the recollection of having deserted the friend who had shown them so much homely kindness, without a word of justification the thought that they were guilty, in appearance, of treachery and ingratitude even the having parted from the two sisters would have filled her with sorrow and regret.
-- He opened, as he spoke, a cupboard close to where he sat, and produced some miniature boxes, carved in a homely manner and made of old wood.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The home circle of Vladimir Vasilievitch consisted of his characterless wife, her sister, whose fortune he managed to get into his own hands by selling her property and depositing the money in his own name, and his gentle, scared, homely daughter, who was leading a solitary, hard life, and whose only diversion consisted in visiting the religious meetings at Aline's and Countess Catherine Ivanovna's.
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：
-- He stood in the homely entrance hall, friendly and easy, attending to the men.
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：
-- That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace.
-- The streets were wide and empty; for two hundred years the place had been dying, but the houses had the homely stateliness of their time.
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