personal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 个人的， 私人的； 亲自的； 身体的， 人身的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter point I achieved at great personal inconvenience; but Istuck to it, because I felt it was a grown-up sort of thing.
-- I am persuaded she knew no difference betweenhis having been a personal benefactor of hers and a kind friend tome, and that she would have received him with the utmostgratitude and devotion in any case.
-- 'The present communication is penned within the personal range (Icannot call it the society) of an individual, in a state closelybordering on intoxication, employed by a broker.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She then repeated some warm personal praise which she had drawn from Mr. Elton, and now did full justice to; and Harriet blushed and smiled, and said she had always thought Mr. Elton very agreeable.
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
-- We all know the difference between the pronouns he or she and thou, the plainest spoken amongst us; we all feel the influence of a something beyond common civility in our personal intercourse with each other a something more early implanted.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.
-- He always signed his name "Henery" strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.
-- "I be the personal name of Poorgrass."
-- Boldwood, who seemed so much deeper and higher and stronger in feeling than Gabriel, had not yet learnt, any more than she herself, the simple lesson which Oak showed a mastery of by every turn and look he gave that among the multitude of interests by which he was surrounded, those which affected his personal well-being were not the most absorbing and important in his eyes.
-- Boldwood, who was apparently determined by personal rather than commercial reasons, suggested that Oak should be furnished with a horse for his sole use, when the plan would present no difficulty, the two farms lying side by side.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taillefer was tired of the annual application made by his daughter and her elderly friend; he gave them a personal interview in order to arrive at an understanding with them.
-- Surely the beautiful Vicomtesse's personal interest would turn the scale for me, when the mere mention of her name produces such an effect.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The month of May had already commenced, and I expect-ed the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the coun-try I had so long inhabited.
-- 'These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I per-suaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues they would compas-sionate me and overlook my personal deformity.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything butperfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.
-- Franticallyshe cast about in her mind for some other topic of conversation which would not be so personal but which would divertMr. O'Hara from the purpose of his trip.
-- It was the greatest feat of the war, and Atlanta took pride and personal satisfaction in the thought that its railroadshad made the victory possible.
-- He could never be inveigled into personal conversations, try though she might, but nowwith no angling on her part, he was talking about kissing.
-- "I don't care for such personal conversation," she said coolly and managed a frown.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner.
-- I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- This was all as it should be, and I went out in my new array, fearfully ashamed of having to pass the shopman, and suspicious after all that I was at a personal disadvantage, something like Joe's in his Sunday suit.
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