insult是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 侮辱, 凌辱; n. 侮辱的言词或行为，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am a copying-clerk at the police-office; and you know you cannot insult any belonging to the constabulary force with-out a chastisement.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself.
-- Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have confidence in one's wife.
-- "Surely you must feel how easy it is for you to insult me?"
-- "They must needs insult me and torture the child, and I am to submit to it!Not on any consideration!She is worse than I am.
-- But at that instant a nobleman of Sergey Ivanovitch's party said that he had heard that the committee had not verified the accounts, considering such a verification an insult to the marshal of the province.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The aloofness of Angus Duer racked him as an insult to himself, as somehow an implied insult to Leora, but his boyish rage had passed into a bleaker worry.
-- You have been seen in places of very low repute, and you have been intimate with a man who took it upon himself to insult me, the Founder, our guests, and the University.
-- And as for Clif Clawson that you were hinting at--him 'take it on himself to insult anybody'?
-- But the scientist is intensely religious--he is so religious that he will not accept quarter- truths, because they are an insult to his faith.
-- It was confusing to find that where Leora had acidly claimed sex- loyalty but had hummingly not cared in what manner he might say Good Morning, Joyce was indifferent as to how many women he might have fondled (so long as he did not insult her by making love to them in her presence) but did require him to say Good Morning as though he meant it.
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：
-- All our acquaintances avoided us, nobody even bowed to us in the street, and I learnt that some shop-men and clerks were intending to insult us in a shameful way, smearing the gates of our house with pitch, so that the landlord began to tell us we must leave.
-- Raskolnikov felt furious; he had a sud-den longing to insult this fat dandy in some way.
-- And even the curve of his spine was expressive of the hor-rible insult he had received.
-- 'I say nothing about him,' added Raskolnikov, pointing to Razumihin, 'though he has had nothing from me either but insult and trouble.'
-- Yet she thoroughly understands some 520 Crime and Punishmentquestions, for instance about kissing of hands, that is, that it's an insult to a woman for a man to kiss her hand, be-cause it's a sign of inequality.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And when you make use of your position of favouritism here, sir,'pursued Mr. Mell, with his lip trembling very much, 'to insult agentleman-' 'A what?- where is he?'
-- 'To insult one who is not fortunate in life, sir, and who never gaveyou the least offence, and the many reasons for not insulting whomyou are old enough and wise enough to understand,' said Mr.Mell, with his lip trembling more and more, 'you commit a meanand base action.
-- To have imposed any derogatory work uponhim, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of amost respectable man.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she had made up her mind how to meet this presump-tion so many weeks before it appeared, that when the insult came at last, it found her very differently affected.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Clearly she did not think his barefaced praise of her person an insult now.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- True,he had called the rent agent "a bastard of an Orangeman," but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did notgive the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of "The Boyne Water."
-- Shestopped, clutching the banisters, her heart hammering so hard from anger, insult and exertion that it seemed about toburst through her basque.
-- The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from herestate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.
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