disposition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 排列， 部署； 性格倾向； 倾向， 意向，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, the evidence of these two witnesses, coupled with the docu-ments of their discovering that would be produced, would show the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty's forces, and of their disposition and preparation, both by sea and land, and would leave no doubt that he had 92 A tale of two citieshabitually conveyed such information to a hostile power.
-- The disposition of -everything in the rooms, from the largest object to the least; the arrangement of colours, the elegant variety and contrast obtained by thrift in trifles, by delicate hands, clear eyes, and good sense; were at once so pleasant in themselves, and so expressive of their originator, that, as Mr. Lorry stood looking about him, the very chairs and tables seemed to ask him, with something of that peculiar expression which he knew so well by this time, whether he approved?
-- On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly a deject-ed disposition to give up, and wither away.
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：
-- 'I have surely a disposition to madness 'tis dreadfully hot here; my blood boils in my veins and my head is burning like a coal.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sergey Ivanovitch was unequaled in his skill in winding up the most heated and serious argument by some unexpected pinch of Attic salt that changed the disposition of his opponent.
-- Answering inquiries about the disposition of Anna Arkadyevna's rooms and belongings, he had exercised immense self-control to appear like a man in whose eyes what had occurred was not unforeseen nor out of the ordinary course of events, and he attained his aim: no one could have detected in him signs of despair.
-- It was particularly delightful to him to have got rid of the hostility he had been feeling towards Vassenka Veslovsky at home, and to feel instead the most friendly disposition to him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance withthis odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
-- 'What a bad disposition you have, Peggotty!'
-- If he weakly showed the least disposition to hear it, CaptainHopkins, in a loud sonorous voice, gave him every word of it.
-- I askedhim what her disposition was: whether it was at all mischievous,and if her sympathies were generally on the right side of things:but, not succeeding in attracting his attention to these questionsafter two or three attempts, I forebore or forgot to repeat them.
-- I fancied, from the disposition of her figure, that Em'ly hadbut newly risen from the chair, and that the forlorn head mightperhaps have been lying on her lap.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the pow-4 Emmaer of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvan-tages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.
-- And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so conve-nient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the ap-proaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.
-- 'Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne.
-- I never met with a disposition more truly amiable.'
-- He certainly might have heard Mr. Elton speak with more unreserve than she had ever done, and Mr. Elton might not be of an imprudent, inconsiderate disposition as to money matters; he might naturally be rather attentive than oth-erwise to them; but then, Mr. Knightley did not make due allowance for the influence of a strong passion at war with all interested motives.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Goriot was so deeply dejected by the student's remark that he did not notice the change in the disposition of his fellow-lodgers, nor know that he had met with a champion capable of putting an end to the persecution.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master is a person of an excellent disposition and is Frankensteinremarkable in the ship for his gentleness and the mildness of his discipline.
-- This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.
-- Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottag-es of the poor.
-- Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the great-est attention to every gesture of my aunt.
-- 101 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by argu-ments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
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