candid是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为adj. 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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He had his mother's candid brow and fine, reflective eyes.
-- She looked at me with those pleasant eyes of hers, which had remained as candid and as sympathetic as they had been more than twenty years before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- This candid declaration tended rather to increase than restrain Mr Quilp's eccentricities, and Richard Swiveller, astonished to see him in such a roystering vein, and drinking not a little himself, for company began imperceptibly to become more companionable and confiding, so that, being judiciously led on by Mr Quilp, he grew at last very confiding indeed.
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