negligence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 疏忽， 过失，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：
-- After making a short ascent up the sierra, they reached the postern gate, so carelessly guarded by an Argentine sentinel, that they passed through without difficulty, a circumstance which betokened extreme negligence or extreme security.
-- The bridge was intentionally opened, and not left open by the negligence of the guard; and connecting with this fact the guard's disappearance, we may conclude that the wretched fellow was an accomplice of these ruffians."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He furthermore took occasion to apologize for any negligence that might be perceptible in his dress, on the ground that last night he had had 'the sun very strong in his eyes'; by which expression he was understood to convey to his hearers in the most delicate manner possible, the information that he had been extremely drunk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds, nor was it more expressive of negligence than defiance.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears!So seldom that a letter, among the thousands that are constant-ly passing about the kingdom, is even carried wrong and not one in a million, I suppose, actually lost!And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another by-word represented him as having in his infancy, through the negligence of a nurse, fallen out of a high window on his head, which had been heard by responsible witnesses to crack.
-- If Fanny had been charming in the morning, she was now thrice charming, very becomingly dressed in her most suitable colours, and with an air of negligence upon her that doubled Mr Sparkler's fetters, and riveted them.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Design could never bring them in each other's way: negligence could never leave them exposed to a surprise; and chance had less in its favour in the crowd of London than even in the retirement of Barton, where it might force him before her while paying that visit at Allenham on his marriage, which Mrs. Dashwood, from foreseeing at first as a probable event, had brought herself to expect as a certain one.
-- My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong.
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