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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the approach of the great phenomena of nature excites vague uneasiness in the heart of every sentient being, even in the most strong-minded.
-- Paganel sat in his corner, muttering vague and incoherent words.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an arm-chair with his black clay pipe between his lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shadow of a supposed act of injustice, which had hung over him since his father's death, was so vague and formless that it might be the result of a reality widely remote from his idea of it.
-- And as on his return when Mr Dorrit eyed him again he announced Miss Amy as if she had come to a funeral, he left a vague impression on Mr Dorrit's mind that he was a well-conducted young fellow, who had been brought up in the study of his Catechism by a widowed mother.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll remind you of your promise when that joyful day comes, if it ever does,' returned Jo, accepting the vague but magnificent offer as gratefully as she could.
-- But when Laurie was gone, and peace prevailed again, the vague anxiety returned and haunted her.
-- 'As 'this sort of thing' is rather a vague expression, would you kindly explain?'
-- Aunt Amy was as yet only a name to them, Aunt Beth soon faded into a pleasantly vague memory, but Aunt Dodo was a living reality, and they made the most of her, for which compliment she was deeply grateful.
-- Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer 'couldn't tell a lie', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did sometimes, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, looking as if the 'precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
-- This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things.
-- Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.
-- Where any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and suggest another.
-- First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.
-- The vague and un-settled suspicions which uncertainty had produced of what Mr. Darcy might have been doing to forward her sister's match, which she had feared to encourage as an exertion of goodness too great to be probable, and at the same time dreaded to be just, from the pain of obligation, were proved beyond their greatest extent to be true!He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some vague report had reached her before of my attachment to some young lady in Devonshire, and what had passed within her observation the preceding evening had marked who the young lady was, and made her more jealous than ever.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She gazed at the green landscape, now passing in swift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impression with vague conjectures of what Chicago might be.
-- How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
-- Disposed as she then was to calculate upon that vague basis which allows the subtraction of one sum from another without any perceptible diminution, she was happy.
-- It must be that a strange bundle of passions and vague desires give rise to such a curious social institution or it would not be.
-- The muscles so held irritated a few nerves, and now a vague scene floated in on the drowsy mind.
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