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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In spite of his considerable wealth he was simple in his personal tastes, and his indoor servants at Baskerville Hall consisted of a married couple named Barrymore, the husband act-ing as butler and the wife as housekeeper.
-- 'You put the matter more flippantly, Mr. Holmes, than you would probably do if you were brought into personal contact with these things.
-- In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that cat-like love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I had been sitting there now, I should not have had the opportunity of making these personal explanations.
-- 'I have not much time for making acquaintances, as a rule,' said the general, 'but as, of course, you have your ob-ject in coming, I ' 'I felt sure you would think I had some object in view when I resolved to pay you this visit,' the prince interrupt-ed; 'but I give you my word, beyond the pleasure of making your acquaintance I had no personal object whatever.'
-- The fact was, Totski was at that time a man of fifty years of age; his position was solid and respectable; his place in society had long been firmly fixed upon safe foundations; he loved himself, his personal comforts, and his position better than all the world, as every respectable gentleman should!
-- In this and five other houses, three over-looking Nevsky, two in the Morskaya, are all that remain of my personal friends.
-- Expectation and suspense were on every face, with the exception of that of the prince, who stood gravely wondering how an affair so entirely personal could have awakened such lively and widespread interest in so short a time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, again, in his personal attendant there was a bizarre quality which had impressed me profoundly.
-- The next thing you threaten to commit suicide about, I shan't do, even at some personal inconvenience.'
-- In those days my fear of the Beast People went the way of my personal fear for Moreau.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A pouch and horn com-pleted his personal accouterments, though a rifle of great length**, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all firearms, leaned against a neighboring sapling.
-- 'Sir, you can; the marquis of Montcalm has, in addition to his other civilities, invited me to a personal interview be-tween the works and his own camp; in order, as he says, to impart some additional information.
-- Not-withstanding the nearness of the enemy, and his own great personal danger, the countenance of the young warrior ex-pressed no other emotion, as the former was compelled to think, than amazement at finding men willing to encounter so useless an exposure.
-- While goaded incessantly by these revengeful impulses that in a savage seldom slumber, the chief was still attentive to his more permanent personal interests.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they who believe in Strickland's greatness are right, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- Another lady recounted her own personal struggle and final triumph, in the course whereof she had found it necessary to call in her mother and two aunts, and to weep incessantly night and day for six weeks.
-- said Dick, 'sorry in the possession of a Cheggs!But I wish you a very good night, concluding with this slight remark, that there is a young lady growing up at this present moment for me, who has not only great personal attractions but great wealth, and who has requested her next of kin to propose for my hand, which, having a regard for some members of her family, I have consented to promise.
-- This posture it must be confessed did not much improve their appearance, as their own personal tails and their coat tails both capital things in their way did not agree together.
-- Then the good woman entered in a long and minute account of Kit's life and history from the earliest period down to that time, not omitting to make mention of his miraculous fall out of a back-parlour window when an infant of tender years, or his uncommon sufferings in a state of measles, which were illustrated by correct imitations of the plaintive manner in which he called for toast and water, day and night, and said, 'don't cry, mother, I shall soon be better;' for proof of which statements reference was made to Mrs Green, lodger, at the cheesemonger's round the corner, and divers other ladies and gentlemen in various parts of England and Wales (and one Mr Brown who was supposed to be then a corporal in the East Indies, and who could of course be found with very little trouble), within whose personal knowledge the circumstances had occurred.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment.
-- "We must not yield to our personal impressions."
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