popularity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 通俗性； 普及， 流行，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My popularity would soon suffer if Iwere to carry out your orders to the letter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not at all intimidated by this rebuff, but rather sharpened in wits and appetite, Mr Swiveller forwarded the same message to another and more distant eating-house, adding to it by way of rider that the gentleman was induced to send so far, not only by the great fame and popularity its beef had acquired, but in consequence of the extreme toughness of the beef retailed at the obdurant cook's shop, which rendered it quite unfit not merely for gentlemanly food, but for any human consumption.
-- When he had sufficiently acknowledged his popularity he came in to breakfast, at which meal they all sat down together.
-- As her popularity procured her various little fees from the visitors on which her patroness never demanded any toll, and as her grandfather too was well-treated and useful, she had no cause of anxiety in connexion with the wax-work, beyond that which sprung from her recollection of Quilp, and her fears that he might return and one day suddenly encounter them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He fretted over his lack of popularity among the dancing-men of the medical school.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society; and the possibility of the favour gained being transitory had reference only to the future.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Appearances were enough, for the appearances of ladyhood won her popularity and that was all she wanted.
-- But even with this under-cover gossip seeping about, he could have retained his popularity had he considered it worth retaining.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These testimonies to the popularity of my guardian made a deep impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The actor whom they had gone to see had achieved his popularity by presenting a mellow type of comedy, in which sufficient sorrow was introduced to lend contrast and relief to humour.
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