performance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 演出, 表演; 履行, 执行; 工作情况, 表现; (机器等) 工作性能，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How well you can stretch your legs out!It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky drove to the French theater, where he really had to see the colonel of his regiment, who never missed a single performance there.
-- Chapter 7 Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official duty--so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders-- that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence--and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.
-- And me to go magnanimously to forgive her, and have pity on her!Me go through a performance before her of forgiving, and deigning to bestow my love on her!...
-- The performance was in full swing.
-- "I know no man more strict in the performance of his duties," said Darya Alexandrovna, irritated by Vronsky's tone of superiority.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The performance was much like all acrobatic displays; but it must be confessed that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know cussed well I'd do anything to avoid-- Though I want you to distinctly understand it has nothing to do with my campaign for Congress!It's simply that I owe my city the most scrupulous performance of duty in safeguarding it against disease, and the most fearless enforcement--" At the end of his oratory Pickerbaugh telegraphed to Dr. J. C. Long, the Chicago bacteriologist.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as you can fancy, our performance is all impromptu芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know what the tunes were- if there were suchthings in the performance at all, which I doubt- but the influence ofthe strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrowsuntil I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away myappetite; and lastly, to make me so sleepy that I couldn't keep myeyes open.
-- I picture my small self in the dimly-lighted rooms, sitting with myhead upon my hand, listening to the doleful performance of Mr.Mell, and conning tomor- row's lessons.
-- I picture myself with mybooks shut up, still listening to the doleful performance of Mr.Mell, and listening through it to what used to be at home, and tothe blowing of the wind on Yarmouth flats, and feeling very sadand solitary.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have heard him speak, and so must you, so very highly of Jane Fairfax!The interest he takes in her his anxiety about her health his concern that she should have no happier prospect!I have heard him express himself so warmly on those points! Such an admirer of her performance on the pianoforte, and of her voice!I have heard him say that he could listen to her for ever.
-- I am doatingly fond of music passionately fond; and my friends say I am not entirely devoid of taste; but as to any thing else, upon my honour my performance is mediocre to the last degree.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What possessed her to indulge in such a performance in the sight of the sparrows, blackbirds, and unperceived farmer who were alone its spectators, whether the smile began as a factitious one, to test her capacity in that art, nobody knows; it ended certainly in a real smile.
-- Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, "Vanity."
-- Gabriel was about to advance and restore the missing article when an unexpected performance induced him to suspend the action for the present.
-- The rams, old ewes, and two-shear ewes had duly undergone their stripping, and the men were proceeding with the shearlings and hogs, when Oak's belief that she was going to stand pleasantly by and time him through another performance was painfully interrupted by Farmer Boldwood's appearance in the extremest corner of the barn.
-- Never since the broadsword became the national weapon had there been more dexterity shown in its management than by the hands of Sergeant Troy, and never had he been in such splendid temper for the performance as now in the evening sunshine among the ferns with Bathsheba.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I felt myself so unequal to the performance that I gave it up, and stood looking at Miss Havisham in what I suppose she took for a dogged manner, inasmuch as she said, when we had taken a good look at each other,--"Are you sullen and obstinate?"
-- To my unutterable amazement, I now, for the first time, saw Mr. Pocket relieve his mind by going through a performance that struck me as very extraordinary, but which made no impression on anybody else, and with which I soon became as familiar as the rest.
-- Proceeding into the Castle again, we found the Aged heating the poker, with expectant eyes, as a preliminary to the performance of this great nightly ceremony.
-- I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."
-- Occasionally, he was tripped up by some orthographical stumbling-block; but on the whole he got on very well indeed; and when he had signed his name, and had removed a finishing blot from the paper to the crown of his head with his two forefingers, he got up and hovered about the table, trying the effect of his performance from various points of view, as it lay there, with unbounded satisfaction.
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