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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No doubt my health would be much better if it was otherwise, still I wouldn't change my disposition if I could.
-- He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,--a clear Impossibility,--but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.
-- "What a hopeful disposition you have!"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their na-tures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.
-- When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
-- But not being at that time in a disposition to philosophise upon this phenomenon, I rather chose to observe what course the island would take, because it seemed for awhile to stand still.
-- But what I chiefly ad-mired, and thought altogether unaccountable, was the strong disposition I observed in them towards news and politics, perpetually inquiring into public affairs, giving their judgments in matters of state, and passionately disput-ing every inch of a party opinion.
-- I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover the least analogy between the two sciences; unless those people sup-pose, that because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest, therefore the regulation and management of the world require no more abilities than the handling and turning of a globe; but I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, you see,' replied Mr. Bounderby, 'it suits my disposition to have a full understanding with a man, particularly with a public man, when I make his acquaintance.
-- It was even the worse for her at this pass, that in her mind implanted there before her eminently practical father began to form it a struggling disposition to believe in a wider and nobler humanity than she had ever heard of, constantly strove with doubts and resentments.
-- Soon after dark they all three got in and started; the learned dog (a formidable creature) already pinning Bitzer with his eye, and sticking close to the wheel on his side, that he might be ready for him in the event of his showing the slightest disposition to alight.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This disposition of the soil is called hraun: the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been.
-- As for the Professor, after a rapid examination of their disposition and characteristics, he became breathless and panting.
-- The disposition of these volcanic strata absolutely confirms the theories of Sir Humphry Davy.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bentley was a shallow old maid with a rather large nose and romantic disposition who served tea with a careful intensity worthy of a sacrament.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He changed his posture to a sitting one, crying with a triumphant air:'Here I am!See me!Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler; shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.
-- A disposition began to be perceived in him to exaggerate the number of years he had been there; it was generally understood that you must deduct a few from his account; he was vain, the fleeting generations of debtors said.
-- 'I said to Mother (not that it was necessary, for she would have thought it all for herself), we are practical people, my dear, and we know her story; we see in this unhappy girl some reflection of what was raging in her mother's heart before ever such a creature as this poor thing was in the world; we'll gloss her temper over, Mother, we won't notice it at present, my dear, we'll take advantage of some better disposition in her another time.
-- On their arrival at Mr Blandois' room, a bottle of port wine was ordered by that gallant gentleman; who (crushing every pretty thing he could collect, in the soft disposition of his dainty figure) coiled himself upon the window-seat, while Mr Flintwinch took a chair opposite to him, with the table between them.
-- 'Is it possible, sir,' said Mr Dorrit, reddening excessively, 'that you have ha had the audacity to place one of my rooms at the disposition of any other person?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For though some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the thing, this may very well be; yet coming to specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness of the dog?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a great-er contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.
-- 'There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency tosome particular evil a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.'
-- His disposition must be dreadful.'
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