gift是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 礼品， 赠品； 天赋， 才能，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gift of laughing was given to man alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, there, you've a gift for it," added Levin.
-- "But I'll say more: my wife is a wonderful woman..." Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed, remembering his position with his wife, and, after a moment's silence, resumed--"She has a gift of foreseeing things.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch had the highest esteem for this circle, and Anna with her special gift for getting on with everyone, had in the early days of her life in Petersburg made friends in this circle also.
-- Vronsky felt, too, how powerful Serpuhovskoy might become through his unmistakable faculty for thinking things out and for taking things in, through his intelligence and gift of words, so rarely met with in the world in which he moved.
-- Besides the gift of the necklace he wanted to arrange with her about meeting after the ballet.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- but anyway-- He was a fool to have lost his temper, even if she was so stubborn that she wouldn't adjust her opinions, couldn't see that he had a gift for influencing people.
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：
-- From his dress and appearance they might well have taken him for a beggar asking alms in the streets, and the gift of the twenty copecks he doubtless owed to the blow, which made them feel sorry for him.
-- I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, mate-rial that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pearl necklace and bracelets which I inherited from mamma, have been disposed of for less than half their value; and the set of coral, which was the wedding gift of my papa, has been actually thrown away for nothing.
-- I had bought a spotted wooden horseovernight as a parting gift to little Wilkins Micawber- that was theboy- and a doll for little Emma.
-- Iaccepted the gift thankfully, and bought a loaf with it.
-- There was a super- stition among us that thiscap had come from France, and could only originate in theworkmanship of that ingenious nation: but all I certainly knowabout it is, that it always made its appearance of an evening,wheresoever Mrs. Markleham made her appearance; that it wascarried about to friendly meetings in a Hindoo basket; that thebutterflies had the gift of trembling constantly; and that theyimproved the shining hours at Doctor Strong's expense, like busybees.
-- But his easy, spirited good-humour; his genial manner, his handsome looks, his natural gift ofadapting himself to whomsoever he pleased, and making direct,when he cared to do it, to the main point of interest in anybody'sheart; bound her to him wholly in five minutes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Tis a' awkward gift for a man, poor soul," said the maltster.
-- "I be all but in liquor, and the gift is wanting in me," said Joseph, diminishing himself.
-- Too much liquor is bad, and leads us to that horned man in the smoky house; but after all, many people haven't the gift of enjoying a wet, and since we be highly favoured with a power that way, we should make the most o't."
-- She looked back upon that past over a great gulf, as if she were now a dead person, having the faculty of meditation still left in her, by means of which, like the mouldering gentlefolk of the poet's story, she could sit and ponder what a gift life used to be.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 105 And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?
-- Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to re-venge.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift forsilence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down thedriveway.
-- Moreover, he usually brought her some little gift fromNassau which he assured her he had purchased especially for her and blockaded in at risk of his life papers of pinsand needles, buttons, spools of silk thread and hairpins.
-- Mrs. Merriwether knew that so expensive agift and a gift of clothing at that was highly improper, but she could think of no way of refusing when Rhett toldher in the most florid language that nothing was too good to deck the bride of one of our brave heroes.
-- And never any gift of jewelry or wearing apparel, not even gloves or handkerchiefs.
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