frank是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 坦白的， 直率的，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：
-- Please, please, be frank with me, Miss Stapleton, for ever since I have been here I have been con-scious of shadows all round me.
-- I wish to be perfectly frank with you, Mrs. Lyons.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She confessed that she had long wished to have a frank and free conversation and to ask for friend-ly advice, but that pride had hitherto prevented her; now, however, that the ice was broken, nothing could be more welcome to her than this opportunity.
-- 'You know quite well that I am telling the truth, because I have always been frank with you.
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：
-- I really like women better than men; they are braver, one can be more frank with them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lovely girl, with a frank face, and wonderful eyes; so large, so soft, so bright, set to such perfection in her kind good head.
-- 'I don't say it would be hopeless,' returned number four, with a frank smile.
-- The brown, grave gentleman, who smiled so pleasantly, who was so frank and considerate in his manner, and yet in whose earnestness there was something that reminded her of his mother, with the great difference that she was earnest in asperity and he in gentleness.
-- 'Why, you see,' said Fanny, with a frank action of her pretty shoulders, 'in London one knows every one.
-- Nothing could be more agreeable than his frank and courteous bearing, or adapted with a more gentlemanly instinct to the circumstances of his visit.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she had been so simply taught that there was no nonsense in her head, and at fifteen she was as innocent and frank as any child.
-- Kate is older than you, Fred and Frank (twins) about my age, and a little girl (Grace), who is nine or ten.
-- Miss Kate sketched and Frank talked to Beth, who was making little mats of braided rushes to serve as plates.
-- Whether he did or not, Frank will tell you.'
-- 'I did once, but I can never hunt again, for I got hurt leaping a confounded five-barred gate, so there are no more horses and hounds for me,' said Frank with a sigh that made Beth hate herself for her innocent blunder.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He therefore held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and confidential with him, so that the two quickly concocted a little plan for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all dreaming of distrusting their sincerity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These frank admissions softened Mr. Giles, who at once owned that he was afraid; upon which, they all three faced about, and ran back again with the completest unanimity, until Mr. Giles (who had the shortest wind of the party, as was encumbered with a pitchfork) most handsomely insisted on stopping, to make an apology for his hastiness of speech.
-- He seemed about five-and-twenty years of age, and was of the middle height; his countenance was frank and handsome; and his demeanor easy and prepossessing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor and her mother rose up in amazement at their entrance, and while the eyes of both were fixed on him with an evident wonder and a secret admiration which equally sprung from his appearance, he apologized for his intrusion by relating its cause, in a manner so frank and so graceful that his person, which was uncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression.
-- How I shall laugh!It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P. But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me?
-- CHAPTER 22Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on their side, Elinor principally attributed that preference of herself which soon became evident in the manners of both, but especially of Lucy, who missed no opportunity of engaging her in conversation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the same house with her lived an official of one of the theatres, Mr. Frank A. Hale, manager of the Standard, and his wife, a pleasing-looking brunette of thirty-five.
-- About ten o'clock a friend of his, Mr. Frank L. Taintor, a local sport and racing man, dropped in, and seeing Hurstwood alone in his office came to the door.
-- He was so innocently frank with her that she drew nearer in friendship.
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