specimen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 标本, 样品, 样张; 试样，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is the most depraved, and abject-ly vicious specimen of that class of men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thatperhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all,whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to thisplace, all needful accommodation, should be an enormoussinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, aclergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a stall in a cathedral, and whatnot), while the public was put to the inconvenience of which wehad a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, andwhich we knew to be quite monstrous.
-- 'A specimen of the thanksone gets,' cried Mrs. Markleham, in tears, 'for taking care of one'sfamily!I wish I was a Turk!'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.
-- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admira-tion among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, look here, Harthouse,' said he, 'here's a specimen of 'em.
-- You'll say, upon my soul this is a tidy specimen of what my friends have to deal with; but this is nothing, sir!You shall hear me ask this man a question.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geology and mineralogy were to us the sole objects of life, and in connection with these studies many a fair specimen of stone, chalk, or metal did we break with our hammers.
-- We were now in what the geological professors call a state of transition, in the period of Silurian stones, so called because this specimen of early formation is very common in England in the counties formerly inhabited by the Celtic nation known as Silures.
-- "You do not mean to say," I cried, "that we have captured a live specimen of a fish belonging to the primitive stock that existed before the deluge?"
-- To hold in one's hand, therefore, a living specimen of the order, is enough to make a naturalist happy for life."
-- It will now be easy to understand the Professor's mingled astonishment and joy when, on advancing about twenty yards, he found himself in the presence of, I may say face to face with, a specimen of the human race actually belonging to the Quaternary period!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Quite a specimen of caution.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
-- But you must not suppose from this specimen of his sermonizings that he ever flew into downright passions with his congregation.
-- Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?
-- Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call "the only perfect specimen of a Greenland or River Whale in the United States."
-- But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This specimen of the Miss Steeles was enough.
-- They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future complaisance and companionableness to Mrs. Jennings might be expected to be.
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