dumb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 哑的, 暂不说话的, 愚笨的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The complaint had sometimes made it-self audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the little boy on the chair sud-denly, after which he relapsed into the same dumb rigidity, with round eyes, his heels thrust forward and his toes spread out.
-- She had a relation, a niece I believe, living with her, a deaf and dumb girl of fifteen, or perhaps not more than fourteen.
-- She listened, looking imploringly at him, clasping her hands in dumb entreaty, as though it all depended upon him.
-- There followed a moment of terrible, dumb struggle in the heart of Svidriga脙炉lov.
-- Svidriga脙炉lov got up, laughed, kissed his betrothed, patted her cheek, declared he would soon come back, and noticing in her eyes, together with childish curiosity, a sort of ear-nest dumb inquiry, reflected and kissed her again, though he felt sincere anger inwardly at the thought that his pres-ent would be immediately locked up in the keeping of the most sensible of mothers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was dumb whenshe leaned beside the harp again, playing it, but not sounding it,with her right hand.
-- He looked atthe back of the seat, as if he were addressing himself to that; andsoftly played upon it with his hands, as if he were striking chordsupon a dumb piano.
-- Motionless,rigid, staring; moaning in the same dumb way from time to time,with the same helpless motion of the head; but giving no other signof life.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men entered the field and endeavoured to ease the anguish of the dumb creatures by rubbing them.
-- cried Cainy, as soon as he could speak; "and now 'tis gone down my neck, and into my poor dumb felon, and over my shiny buttons and all my best cloze!"
-- But two distinct translations attached to these dumb expressions.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Wemmick, suddenly hitting out at the turnkey in a facetious way, "you're dumb as one of your own keys when you have to do with my principal, you know you are.
-- While I complied, he, not comprehending a single word, would stand before the fire surveying me with the air of an Exhibitor, and I would see him, between the fingers of the hand with which I shaded my face, appealing in dumb show to the furniture to take notice of my proficiency.
-- Estella, pausing a moment in her knitting with her eyes upon me, and then going on, I fancied that I read in the action of her fingers, as plainly as if she had told me in the dumb alphabet, that she perceived I had discovered my real benefactor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dumb with amazement, Mr. Gradgrind crossed to the spot where his family was thus disgraced, laid his hand upon each erring child, and said:'Louisa!!Thomas!!'
-- Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery, in a by-comer, and made him Member of Parliament for Coketown: one of the respected members for ounce weights and measures, one of the representatives of the multiplication table, one of the deaf honourable gentlemen, dumb honourable gentlemen, blind honourable gentlemen, lame honourable gentlemen, dead honourable gentlemen, to every other consideration.
-- Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as itself; not a grim Idol, cruel and cold, with its victims bound hand to foot, and its big dumb shape set up with a sightless stare, never to be moved by anything but so many calculated tons of leverage what had she to do with these?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We remain still and dumb from utter horror.
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：
-- And it seemed she was like the sea, nothing but dark waves rising and heaving, heaving with a great swell, so that slowly her whole darkness was in motion, and she was Ocean rolling its dark, dumb mass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sitting with her hands laid separately upon the desk, and the tall cabinet towering before her, she looked as if she were performing on a dumb church organ.
-- Besides his dumb-waiter, Mr Meagles had two other not dumb waiters in the persons of two parlour-maids with rosy faces and bright eyes, who were a highly ornamental part of the table decoration.
-- Indeed, when the two maids came in (escorted by the courier, lest any one should strike them dumb by addressing a foreign language to them on the road), there was a prospect of too much assistance.
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