prominence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 显着， 突出，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were acrobatic feats later, and a considerable prominence of Orchid, who did not wear stays, who loved dancing, and who praised Martin's feats in the game of "Follow the Leader."
-- "Of course!All that--Oh, you know; I don't just mean the prominence and respect, but the power to accomplish good."
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- continued the voice with greater prominence of manner and tone.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hadrisen to prominence in the campaigns in Tennessee and the West, and his reputation as a determined and ruthlessfighter was growing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then began to find fault with other parts of my body: 'the flatness of my face, the prominence of my nose, mine eyes 306 Gulliver's Travelsplaced directly in front, so that I could not look on either side without turning my head: that I was not able to feed myself, without lifting one of my fore-feet to my mouth: and therefore nature had placed those joints to answer that ne-cessity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No more passed between the sisters then; but what had passed gave the two subjects of Mrs General and Mr Sparkler great prominence in Little Dorrit's mind, and thenceforth she thought very much of both.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever.
-- But as the stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for the ulceration alluded to.
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