tidy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 整洁的, 有条理的，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：
-- When in luck he was able to make a tidy sum; but the shabbiness of his clothes at last frightened the sight-seers, and he could not find people adventurous enough to trust themselves to him.
-- He told me of his childhood in the tidy brick house, and of his mother's passionate orderliness.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, casting a look at me: I had begun to wipe the plate, and tidy some drawers at the far end in the dresser.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the boxes of goods, the hanging fabrics, the festoons of lace, the boxes of sweets in the grocery section, the displays of this and that, were being whipped down, folded up, slapped into tidy receptacles, and everything that could not be taken down and put away had sheets of some coarse stuff like sacking flung over them.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little 'Oh!'
-- 'You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you!And don't keep your mouth so wide open!All the ashes will get into it there, now I think you're tidy enough!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Kirk, a stout, pale, sharp-nosed woman, sly, honied, with something shrewish and cat-like beneath, asked the girls into her too cosy, too tidy kitchen.
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