courteous是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 有礼貌的，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：
-- He took courteous leave of the surveyor-general, and made a sign to the rest to follow him.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman now approached the prince slowly, and with a most courteous smile; silently took his hand and held it in his own, as he examined the prince's features as though searching for familiar traits therein.
-- She did not even vouchsafe the usual courteous smile of etiquette.
-- He had not even remembered to say goodbye, and Lebedeff was the more surprised at the omission, as he knew by experience how courteous the prince usually was.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So simple, or so insane, was he that he wrote to Dean Silva politely bidding him step down and hand over his school--his work, his life--to an unknown teacher in Harvard!A courteous old gentleman was Dad Silva, a fit disciple of Osler, but this incredible letter killed his patience.
-- In the simple gorgeousness of the Nautilus smart set, Mrs. Clay Tredgold had petted Leora and laughed at her if she lacked a shoe- buckle or split an infinitive, but the gold-slippered Mrs. Duer was accustomed to sneer at carelessness with the most courteous and unresentable and unmistakable sneers.
-- He was courteous to Miss Gwilliam; he tried to cheer her on a seemingly lonely adventure.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things.
-- The issue of their dialogue was the taking of her hand by the courteous farmer to help her over the spreading-board into the bright June sunlight outside.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was courteous always, but aloof, remote.
-- He was unfailingly courteous to her, but she was a little timid with him, largelybecause she was shy with any man she had not known from childhood.
-- He neatly deflated the pompous and exposed the ignorant and thebigoted, and he did it in such subtle ways, drawing his victims out by his seemingly courteous interest, that they neverwere quite certain what had happened until they stood exposed as windy, high flown and slightly ridiculous.
-- She saw him stand beside it, heardhim speak and his voice was changed, courteous and respectful as it always was when he spoke to Melanie.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear na- 157tive country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.
-- he Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people; and Talthough they are not without some share of that pride which is peculiar to all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially such who are countenanced by the court.
-- But, if these cen-surers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion.
-- Having thus answered the only objection that can ever be raised against me as a traveller, I here take a final leave of all my courteous readers, and return to enjoy my own specula-tions in my little garden at Redriff; to apply those excellent lessons of virtue which I learned among the Houyhnhnms; to instruct the Yahoos of my own family, is far as I shall find them docible animals; to behold my figure often in aglass, and thus, if possible, habituate myself by time to tol-erate the sight of a human creature; to lament the brutality to Houyhnhnms in my own country, but always treat their persons with respect, for the sake of my noble master, his family, his friends, and the whole Houyhnhnm race, whom these of ours have the honour to resemble in all their linea-ments, however their intellectuals came to degenerate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' which was addressed to a couple of men who were handing the dishes round, as a courteous intimation that their services could be temporarily dispensed with.
-- Miss Fanny was excessively courteous to her, and said the usual nothings with the skill of a veteran.
-- Miss Wade and the man then began to walk up and down; the man having the appearance of being extremely courteous and complimentary in manner; Miss Wade having the appearance of being extremely haughty.
-- 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：
-- Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve woman-kind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble."
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