excellence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 优秀， 卓越，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：
-- exclaimed Paganel, "it is the field par excellence for the exercise of human energies, and the ship is the true vehicle of civilization.
-- The forests of the Oceanic continent do not in the least resemble the forests of the New World; and the Eucalyptus, the "Tara" of the aborigines, belonging to the family of MYRTACEA, the different varieties of which can hardly be enumerated, is the tree par excellence of the Australian flora.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You knew nothing neither of war nor of the arts whereby men make their mark in council, and he sent me with you to train you in all excellence of speech and action.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We will not dispute concerning the excellence of the passage,' returned Heyward, smiling; for, as the reader has anticipated, it was he.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There could be, to a respectable person, no question as to their merits: Kellett the just and earnest man of domesticity whose rise was an inspiration to youth; George William the gambler, the lusher, the smuggler, the liar, the seller of shoddy cottons, a person whose only excellence was his cheap good nature.
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：
-- remarked on the excellence of the wine, and Strickland told us where he got it.
-- When Stroeve was holding forth at length on the excellence of Monet, he said: "I prefer Winterhalter."
-- They look upon conversation as the great pleasure of life, thereby proving the excellence of their civilisation, and for the most part they are entertaining talkers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now it was Mr. Wickfield, now Agnes, now the excellence of Mr.Wickfield, now my admiration of Agnes; now the extent of Mr.Wickfield's business and resources, now our domestic life afterdinner; now, the wine that Mr. Wickfield took, the reason why hetook it, and the pity that it was he took so much; now one thing,now another, then everything at once; and all the time, withoutappearing to speak very often, or to do anything but sometimesencourage them a little, for fear they should be overcome by theirhumility and the honour of my company, I found myselfperpetually letting out something or other that I had no business tolet out, and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of Uriah's dintednostrils.
-- What with the novelty of this cookery, the excellence of it, thebustle of it, the frequent starting up to look after it, the frequentsitting down to dispose of it as the crisp slices came off the gridironhot and hot, the being so busy, so flushed with the fire, so amused,and in the midst of such a tempting noise and savour, we reducedthe leg of mutton to the bone.
-- Traddles now informed me, as the result of his inquiries, that themere mechanical acquisition necessary, except in rare cases, forthorough excellence in it, that is to say, a perfect and entirecommand of the mystery of short-hand writing and reading, wasabout equal in difficulty to the mastery of six languages; and that it 488might perhaps be attained, by dint of perseverance, in the course ofa few years.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She played and sang; and drew in almost every style; but steadiness had always been wanting; and in nothing had she approached the degree of excellence which she would have been glad to command, and ought not to have failed of.
-- All this spoken extremely fast obliged Miss Bates to stop for breath; and Emma said something very civil about the excellence of Miss Fairfax's handwriting.
-- She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrel-ling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own but still, from family at-tachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an en-deavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all shared.
-- When I think of the kindness and fa-vour I have met with, of her excellence and patience, and my uncle's generosity, I am mad with joy: but when I recollect all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often re-minds me of her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the fine gentlemen not regularly belonging to the Gradgrind school, there was one of a good family and a better appearance, with a happy turn of humour which had told immensely with the House of Commons on the occasion of his entertaining it with his (and the Board of Directors) view of a railway accident, in which the most careful officers ever known, employed by the most liberal managers ever heard of, assisted by the finest mechanical contrivances ever devised, the whole in action on the best line ever constructed, had killed five people and wounded thirty-two, by a casualty without which the excellence of the whole system would have been positively incomplete.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, the great ornaments of the walls were certain moral sentences fairly copied in good round text, and well-worked sums in simple addition and multiplication, evidently achieved by the same hand, which were plentifully pasted all round the room: for the double purpose, as it seemed, of bearing testimony to the excellence of the school, and kindling a worthy emulation in the bosoms of the scholars.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pe-dantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached.
-- I often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent.
-- Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before.
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