deaf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 聋的, 不愿听的，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：
-- "I am going to throw myself at the Queen's feet, and we shall see if she will turn a deaf ear to the prayers of two children, who implore their father's life."
-- Ayrton remained impassive, gazing at the coast, deaf to every question.
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 confess I might well have re-sented that blind, deaf fate, which, with no apparent reason, seemed to have decided to crush me like a fly; but why did I not stop at resentment?
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：
-- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections; nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the natives of the forests were the principal and barbarous actors.
-- But Magua was deaf to her voice; or, rather, he knew his power, and was determined to maintain it.
-- But Cora, instead of obeying the impulse he had expected, rushed to the feet of the patriarch, and, rais-ing her voice, exclaimed aloud: 'Just and venerable Delaware, on thy wisdom and power we lean for mercy!Be deaf to yonder artful and remorse-less monster, who poisons thy ears with falsehoods to feed his thirst for blood.
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：
-- "Do you know how men can be so obsessed by love that they are deaf and blind to everything else in the world?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was possible that others existed whose bite was mortal such as the deaf vipers with forked tails, which rise up under the feet, or those winged snakes, furnished with two ears, which enable them to proceed with great rapidity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captivated with his own ingenuity, and confident in the strength of his position, which he had taken up after the method of those hardy individuals who open the pit and gallery doors of theatres on crowded nights, Mr Swiveller rained down such a shower of blows, that the noise of the bell was drowned; and the small servant, who lingered on the stairs below, ready to fly at a moment's notice, was obliged to hold her ears lest she should be rendered deaf for life.
-- 'Here, woman,' he said, 'here's your deaf and dumb son.
-- 'Was he deaf and dumb, woman?'
-- How many of the girls and boys ah, men and women too that are brought before you and you don't pity, are deaf and dumb in their minds, and go wrong in that state, and are punished in that state, body and soul, while you gentlemen are quarrelling among yourselves whether they ought to learn this or that? Be a just man, Sir, and give me back my son.'
-- 'Yes,' replied the sexton; adding in a half compassionate, half irritable tone, which the old man couldn't hear, 'you're getting very deaf, Davy, very deaf to be sure!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man was not deaf to the last words.
-- Affery, who had been trembling and struggling the whole time, turned a deaf ear to all adjuration, and was bent on forcing herself out of the closet.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Profes-sor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies Take some one of your own size; don't pommel me!No, ye've knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.
-- You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The terrified children cried bitterly; but the old woman, who had hitherto remained as quiet as if she had been wholly deaf to all that passed, menaced them into silence.
-- Nancy, apparently fearful of irritating the housebreaker, sat with her eyes fixed upon the fire, as if she had been deaf to all that passed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though, in the meantime, I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business, and frequently expos-tulated with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my incli-nations prompted me to.
-- CHAPTER II - SLAVERY AND ESCAPETHAT evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house - which hurried me into the wild and indi-gested notion of raising my fortune, and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me as to make me deaf to all good advice, and to the entreaties and even the commands of my father - I say, the same influence, whatever it was, pre-sented the most unfortunate of all enterprises to my view; and I went on board a vessel bound to the coast of Africa; or, as our sailors vulgarly called it, a voyage to Guinea.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, ye----" But the officer turned a deaf ear.
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