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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I enjoyed a discussion over him till three o'clock in the morning, with Lebedeff; and then ... then I swear by all I hold sacred that I am telling you the truth then I wished to develop my soul in this frank and heartfelt confession to you.
-- 'But, on the other hand, more frank in the evening!In the evening sincere and frank,' repeated Lebedeff, earnestly.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recalled that none of these men had spo-ken to me, though most of them I had found looking at me at one time or another in a peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your unsophisticated savage.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We have a wise ordinance in our Salique laws, which says, 'The crown of France shall never degrade the lance to the distaff',' said Montcalm, dryly, and with a little hauteur; but instantly adding, with his former frank and easy air: 'as all the nobler qualities are hereditary, I can easily credit you; though, as I said before, courage has its limits, and hu-manity must not be forgotten.
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：
-- It was all false, insincere, shoddy; and yet no one was more honest, sincere, and frank than Dirk Stroeve.
-- There entered a tall man in khaki, with the parson's collar, handsome in a somewhat heavy fashion, but with the frank eyes that I remembered in him as a boy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The plain, frank kindness of the honest schoolmaster, the affectionate earnestness of his speech and manner, the truth which was stamped upon his every word and look, gave the child a confidence in him, which the utmost arts of treachery and dissimulation could never have awakened in her breast.
-- cried Brass when he had withdrawn, 'with that frank and open countenance!I'd trust him with untold gold.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I will be frank with you; the probabilities of success are slight.
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：
-- She would go on now for days like this, in this bright frank state of seemingly pure spontaneity, so essentially oblivious of the existence of anything but herself, but so ready and facile in her interest.
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