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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile, the sailor attentively observed the disposition and nature of the surrounding country.
-- The disposition of the forests and plains had been marked in a general way on the reporter's plan.
-- These birds soon became accustomed to returning every evening to their new dwelling, and showed more disposition to domesticate themselves than their congeners, the wood-pigeons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- It is sufficient to know that vanity, interest, poverty, and every spendthrift consideration urged him to look upon the proposal with favour, and that where all other inducements were wanting, the habitual carelessness of his disposition stepped in and still weighed down the scale on the same side.
-- Hailing these little tokens of the bachelor's disposition as so many assurances of his own welcome course from that time, the schoolmaster parted from him with a light heart and joyous spirits, and deemed himself one of the happiest men on earth.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having made an outline of a speech, which he was to deliver to the peasants the following day, Nekhludoff went to the manager's house, and after further deliberating upon the proper disposition of the stock, he calmly and contentedly retired to a room prepared for him in the large building.
-- As soon as Nekhludoff saw that face, those hairy hands and heard that patronizing tone, his gentle disposition immediately disappeared.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even a small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.
-- Yet I felt sure that I could trust him in one point, since in that our interests jumped together, and that was in the disposition of the schooner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw then those magnificent birds, the disposition of whose long feathers obliges them to fly against the wind.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
-- Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
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