property是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 财产, 房产, 性质，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landed property of Hart-166 Emmafield certainly was inconsiderable, being but a sort of notch in the Donwell Abbey estate, to which all the rest of High-bury belonged; but their fortune, from other sources, was such as to make them scarcely secondary to Donwell Abbey itself, in every other kind of consequence; and the Wood-houses had long held a high place in the consideration of the neighbourhood which Mr. Elton had first entered not two years ago, to make his way as he could, without any alliances but in trade, or any thing to recommend him to notice but his situation and his civility. But he had fan-cied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and oblig-ing, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary ob-servation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
-- By this hurried contrivance Bathsheba's property in wheat was safe for at any rate a week or two, provided always that there was not much wind.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole property brought in about three thousand francs; and though the amount varied with the season (as must always be the case in a vine-growing district), they were obliged to spare an unvarying twelve hundred francs out of their income for him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property nextfall, he was diffident and silent.
-- Itcame to Scarlett as a pleasant surprise that she was now a well-to-do young woman, for Charles had not only left herhalf of Aunt Pitty's house but farm lands and town property as well.
-- It was when UncleHenry was giving her an account of her property that he broached the matter of her permanent residence in Atlanta.
-- "The way Atlanta is growinghis property will be ten times more valuable in twenty years, and it's only right that the boy should be raised where hisproperty is, so he can learn to take care of it yes, and of Pitty's and Melanie's, too.
-- It was the bold way his eyes looked out of his swarthy face with adispleasing air of insolence, as if all women were his property to be enjoyed in his own good time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe--I never thought I was going to rob Joe, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his--united to the necessity of always keeping one hand on my bread and butter as I sat, or when I was ordered about the kitchen on any small errand, almost drove me out of my mind.
-- What I had meant was, that when I came into my property and was able to do something for Joe, it would have been much more agreeable if he had been better qualified for a rise in station.
-- They may not be worth much, but, after all, they're property and portable.
-- As far as it goes, it's property and portable.
-- We left him bestirring himself to feed the fowls, and we sat down to our punch in the arbor; where Wemmick told me, as he smoked a pipe, that it had taken him a good many years to bring the property up to its present pitch of perfection.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of all this the people are well apprised, and understand how far to carry their obstinacy, where their liberty or property is concerned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whenever a Coketowner felt he was ill-used that is to say, whenever he was not left entirely alone, and it was proposed to hold him accountable for the consequences of any of his acts he was sure to come out with the awful menace, that he would 'sooner pitch his property into the Atlantic.'
-- However, the Coketowners were so patriotic after all, that they never had pitched their property into the Atlantic yet, but, on the contrary, had been kind enough to take mighty good care of it.
-- The bank had foreclosed a mortgage effected on the property thus pleasantly situated, by one of the Coketown magnates, who, in his determination to make a shorter cut than usual to an enormous fortune, overspeculated himself by about two hundred thousand pounds.
-- There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic.
-- At five minutes past twelve o'clock next day, he directed Mrs. Bounderby's property to be carefully packed up and sent to Tom Gradgrind's; advertised his country retreat for sale by private contract; and resumed a bachelor life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sound does not possess the property of traveling with such extreme rapidity.
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：
-- It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money.
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