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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were dumb with horror.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And why were you so struck dumb at the sight of me?
-- As to Gania, I need not say that he was miserable; he stood dumb and wretched and took no notice of anybody.
-- 'Never more from that sweet moment Gazed he on womankind; He was dumb to love and wooing And to all their graces blind.
-- Nature appears to one, looking at this picture, as some huge, implacable, dumb monster; or still better a stranger simile some enormous mechanical engine of modern days which has seized and crushed and swallowed up a great and invaluable Being, a Being worth nature and all her laws, worth the whole earth, which was perhaps created merely for the sake of the advent of that Being.
-- Another minute and the laughter grew louder they were laughing at him, at his dumb stupor laughing kindly and merrily.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did he speak and his words set them all weeping and mourning about the poor dumb dead, till rosy-fingered morn appeared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Helped out by the Courier and some half-dozen of the hotel servants, he was passing through the hall with a serene magnificence, when lo!a sight presented itself that struck him dumb and motionless.
-- Over and above that, Mistress Affery, by some means (it was not very difficult to guess, through the sharp arguments of her liege lord), had acquired such a lively conviction of the hazard of saying anything under any circumstances, that she had remained all this time in a corner guarding herself from approach with that symbolical instrument of hers; so that, when a word or two had been addressed to her by Flora, or even by the bottle-green patriarch himself, she had warded off conversation with the toasting-fork like a dumb woman.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They felt this most when singing time came, for Beth could only play, Jo stood dumb as a stone, and Amy broke down, so Meg and Mother sang alone.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Vengeance on a dumb brute!"
-- cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!Madness!To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."
-- That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating of their aspect.
-- No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
-- Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
-- The Dodger nodded in the affirmative, and, shading the flame of the candle with his hand, gave Charley Bates a private intimation, in dumb show, that he had better not be funny just then.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was struck dumb with these reflections, as one astonished, and had not a word to say - no, not to answer to myself, but rose up pensive and sad, walked back to my retreat, and went up over my wall, as if I had been going to bed; but my thoughts were sadly disturbed, and I had no inclination to sleep; so I sat down in my chair, and lighted my lamp, for it began to be dark.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was almost a dumb procession.
-- They looked at it as dumb brutes look, as dogs paw and whine and study the knob.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, she was plumb deef en dumb, Huck, plumb deef en dumb en I'd ben a- treat'n her so!'
-- 'Well, he don't miss any property by it, because he'll get that all right; but he's missed seeing his brother Peter die which he mayn't mind, nobody can tell as to that but his brother would a give anything in this world to see HIM before he died; never talked about nothing else all these three weeks; hadn't seen him since they was boys together and hadn't ever seen his brother William at all that's the deef and dumb one William ain't more than thir- ty or thirty-five.
-- The duke said, leave him alone for that; said he had played a deef and dumb person on the histronic boards.
-- A prisoner's GOT to have some kind of a dumb pet, and if a rattlesnake hain't ever been tried, why, there's more glory to be gained in your being the first to ever try it than any other way you could ever think of to save your life.'
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