genius是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 天才, 天才人物; 才华，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I introduced Did-248 Gulliver's Travelsymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet.
-- I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor in-deed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
-- It appears to me, that, under my humble roof, there's hardly opening enough for a lady of your genius in other people's affairs.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw any budding genius myself, and there he is, all the rage.'
-- Connie realized that his so-called genius was just this: a perspicuous talent for per-sonal gossip, clever and apparently detached.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be what it was.
-- This he attributed, after much reflection, to his musical genius not having been scientifically developed in his youth.
-- He remarked with his utmost politeness, that he must beg to protest against its being supposed, even by Mrs Merdle, the accomplished and graceful (to which compliment she bent herself), that such enterprises as Mr Merdle's, apart as they were from the puny undertakings of the rest of men, had any lower tendency than to enlarge and expand the genius in which they were conceived.
-- Red and white curtained windows, little straw mat, little round table with a tumultuous assemblage of legs underneath, clumsy rush-bottomed chairs, two great red velvet arm-chairs affording plenty of space to be uncomfortable in, bureau, chimney-glass in several pieces pretending to be in one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of France.
-- You have no idea how the Genius of the country (overlook the Parliamentary nature of the phrase, and don't be bored by it) tends to being left alone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with won-derful genius in all things.
-- This cap was a beacon to the inquiring eyes of her family, who during these periods kept their distance, merely pop-ping in their heads semi-occasionally to ask, with interest, 'Does genius burn, Jo?'
-- She did not think herself a genius by any means, but when the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imagi-nary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.
-- But her reverence for genius received a severe shock that night, and it took her some time to recover from the discovery that the great creatures were only men and women after all.
-- 'It's genius simmering, perhaps.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Genius in the Sperm Whale?
-- No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Chitling was older in years than the Dodger: having perhaps numbered eighteen winters; but there was a degree of deference in his deportment towards that young gentleman which seemed to indicate that he felt himself conscious of a slight inferiority in point of genius and professional aquirements.
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.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!if he should be so far stimulated by your genius as to learn to draw himself, how delightful it would be!"
-- Thank Heaven!I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing.
-- It required superiority--kindly superiority--to move her--the superiority of a genius like Ames.
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