vague是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不明确的， 含糊的， 暧昧的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the outermost room were half a dozen exceptional people who had had, for a few years, some vague misgiving in them that things in general were going rather wrong.
-- The nervousness and dread that were upon him inspired that vague uneasiness respecting the Bank, which a great change would naturally awaken, with such feelings roused.
-- And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her.
-- All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately revengeful and fitful, the innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black mal-ice, it was so impossible to forget that many as blameless as her husband and as dear to others as he was to her, every day shared the fate from which he had been clutched, that her heart could not be as lightened of its load as she felt it ought to be.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or perhaps not...I really am not sure," Vronsky answered heedlessly, with a vague recollection of something stiff and tedious evoked by the name Karenina.
-- From the vague answers to his question how much hay had been cut on the principal meadow, from the hurry of the village elder who had made the division, not asking leave, from the whole tone of the peasant, Levin perceived that there was something wrong in the division of the hay, and made up his mind to drive over himself to look into the matter.
-- Parmenitch, a talkative, comely old man, gave Levin a very warm welcome, showed him all he was doing, told him everything about his bees and the swarms of that year; but gave vague and unwilling answers to Levin's inquiries about the mowing.
-- A vague sense of the order into which his affairs had been brought, a vague recollection of the friendliness and flattery of Serpuhovskoy, who had considered him a man that was needed, and most of all, the anticipation of the interview before him--all blended into a general, joyous sense of life.
-- This dear good Sviazhsky, keeping a stock of ideas simply for social purposes, and obviously having some other principles hidden from Levin, while with the crowd, whose name is legion, he guided public opinion by ideas he did not share; that irascible country gentleman, perfectly correct in the conclusions that he had been worried into by life, but wrong in his exasperation against a whole class, and that the best class in Russia; his own dissatisfaction with the work he had been doing, and the vague hope of finding a remedy for all this--all was blended in a sense of inward turmoil, and anticipation of some solution near at hand.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under his training she would learn the distinction between vague "ideals" and the hard sureness of science.
-- But he had for Martin a charm that could not be accounted for by cheerfulness, his shrewdness, his vague courage.
-- Pickerbaugh was ample and vague about his Policies.
-- However vague the citizens were as to the nature of his wickedness, once they lost faith in him they lost it completely and with joy, and they welcomed an apparently spontaneously generated rumor that he had betrayed his benefactor, their beloved Dr. Pickerbaugh, by seducing Orchid.
-- Tubbs came in now and then, found him busy, patted his shoulder, said something which sounded like French and might even have been French, and gave vague encouragement; while Gottlieb imperturbably told him to go ahead, and now and then stirred him by showing his own note-books (they were full of figures and abbreviations, stupid-seeming as invoices of calico) or by speaking of his own work, in a vocabulary as heathenish as Tibetan magic: "Arrhenius and Madsen have made a contribution toward bringing immunity reactions under the mass action law, but I hope to show that antigen-antibody combinations occur in stoicheiometric proportions when certain variables are held constant."
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：
-- When he was attending the university, he had hun-dreds of times generally on his way home stood still on this spot, gazed at this truly magnificent spectacle and al-most always marvelled at a vague and mysterious emotion it roused in him.
-- And how can we tell, perhaps that is just, and do you know it's what I would certainly have made it,' an-swered Svidriga脙炉lov, with a vague smile.
-- He found the porter and obtained from him vague directions as to the whereabouts of Kapernaumov, the tailor.
-- Do put down your cap, it looks as if you were just going, it makes me uncomfortable 芒聙娄 I am so delighted 芒聙娄' Raskolnikov put down his cap and continued listening in silence with a serious frowning face to the vague and empty chatter of Porfiry Petrovitch.
-- These powerful omniscient cir-cles who despised everyone and showed everyone up had long inspired in him a peculiar but quite vague alarm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well I recollect our sitting there, talking in whispers; or theirtalking, and my respectfully listening, I ought rather to say; themoonlight falling a little way into the room, through the window,painting a pale window on the floor, and the greater part of us inshadow, except when Steerforth dipped a match into aphosphorus-box, when he wanted to look for anything on theboard, and shed a blue glare over us that was gone directly!Acertain mysterious feeling, consequent on the darkness, the secrecyof the revel, and the whisper in which everything was said, stealsover me again, and I listen to all they tell me with a vague feelingof solemnity and awe, which makes me glad that they are all sonear, and frightens me (though I feign to laugh) when Traddlespretends to see a ghost in the corner.
-- Ah, how I loved her!What happiness (I thought) if wewere married, and were going away anywhere to live among thetrees and in the fields, never growing older, never growing wiser,children ever, rambling hand in hand through sunshine andamong flowery meadows, laying down our heads on moss at night,in a sweet sleep of purity and peace, and buried by the birds whenwe were dead!Some such picture, with no real world in it, brightwith the light of our innocence, and vague as the stars afar off, wasin my mind all the way.
-- There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which heanoints his hair gives him unnatural strength, and that he is amatch for a man.
-- If I went to sleep for a few moments, the imageof Agnes with her tender eyes, and of her father looking fondly onher, as I had so often seen him look, arose before me with 357appealing faces, and filled me with vague terrors.
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