neutral是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 中立的； 中性的， 中和的，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：
-- There could not have been a greater contrast between brother and sister, for Stapleton was neutral tinted, with light hair and gray eyes, while she was darker than any brunette whom I have seen in England slim, elegant, and tall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He accompanied his conductor into a guard-room, smelling of common wine and tobacco, where certain sol-diers and patriots, asleep and awake, drunk and sober, and in various neutral states between sleeping and waking, drunkenness and sobriety, were standing and lying about.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This obtained, the engineer treated the fat with soda, which gave both a soluble soap and that neutral substance, glycerine.
-- Cyrus Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlord, who had apparently resolved to remain neutral until he knew which side of the question the stout man would espouse, chimed in at this place with 'Ah, to be sure, can't you let him speak, Isaac List?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- Bathsheba tried to preserve an absolutely neutral countenance, and all the motion she made was that of closing lips which had previously been a little parted.
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：
-- See that he's looked after, Rupert," he added in a neutral voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears were invaded by the sound of music.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- came the ready, neutral words.
-- came the neutral voice, like one in a dream.
-- he said, in a quiet, neutral voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something Right SomewhereTo be in the halting state of Mr Henry Gowan; to have left one of two powers in disgust; to want the necessary qualifications for finding promotion with another, and to be loitering moodily about on neutral ground, cursing both; is to be in a situation unwholesome for the mind, which time is not likely to improve.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.
-- Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's heart, at that instant when he saw the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so blent with its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he hardly knew it for itself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His face was a very neutral thing to contemplate.
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