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：
-- 'As a matter of fact,' said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: 'As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-as-sertion, and you want success.
-- As for Hammond, he's got a property instinct, so naturally the straight road and the narrow gate are right for him.
-- The ownership of property has now become a religious question: as it has been since Jesus and St Francis.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unfortunately, the property of Madame Rigaud was settled upon herself.
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
-- He decided to will and bequeath his little property of savings to his godchild, and the point arose how could it be so 'tied up' as that only she should have the benefit of it?
-- 'Supposing,' he would say, stating the case with his key on the professional gentleman's waistcoat; 'supposing a man wanted to leave his property to a young female, and wanted to tie it up so that nobody else should ever be able to make a grab at it; how would you tie up that property?'
-- 'Supposing she had, say a brother, say a father, say a husband, who would be likely to make a grab at that property when she came into it how about that?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least.
-- And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.
-- but all were enjoying themselves, and when Jo collected her damaged property to go, her escort accompa-nied her, begging her to come again, 'It was such fun to hear about Laurie's larks.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the private property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it to Tashtego with Romish injunctions of secrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest.
-- Boys, they say the rest of his property is invested in looking-glasses.
-- These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned judge in set terms decided, to wit, That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish) acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards took the fish had a right to them.
-- There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain limitations, and nominally supplying the tenth branch of the crown's ordinary revenue.
-- Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alongside and beheaded; and how (on the principle which entitled the headsman of old to the garments in which the beheaded was killed) his great padded surtout becomes the property of his executioner; how, in due time, he is condemned to the pots, and, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, his spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the fire; but now it remains to conclude the last chapter of this part of the description by rehearsing singing, if I may the romantic proceeding of decanting off his oil into the casks and striking them down into the hold, where once again leviathan returns to his native profundities, sliding along beneath the surface as before; but, alas!never more to rise and blow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I consider, sir, that you have obtained possession of that book, under very suspicious and disreputable circumstances; and you may think yourself very fortunate that the owner of the property declines to prosecute.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
-- Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had in-tended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
-- Chapter 7 r. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an Mestate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, I shared the lands into parts with them, re-served to myself the property of the whole, but gave them such parts respectively as they agreed on; and having set-tled all things with them, and engaged them not to leave the place, I left them there.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the offer of a small house, on very easy terms, belonging to a relation of her own, a gentleman of consequence and property in Devonshire.
-- On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
-- "Yes; he has very good property in Dorsetshire."
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