special是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 特殊的， 专门的； 附加的， 额外的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This yacht is a portion of our old Caledonia, a fragment of Dumbartonshire, making a voyage by special favor, so that in a manner we are still in our own country.
-- "Why, for my part, on the contrary, I should have taken special care to preserve megatheriums and pterodactyles, and all the antediluvian species of which we are unfortunately deprived by his neglect."
-- As no special marching order had been agreed upon, everybody was at liberty to follow his inclinations within certain limits.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
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：
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- 'Because that is my special hobby.
-- The supra-orbital crest, the facial angle, the maxil-lary curve, the ' 'But this is my special hobby, and the differences are equally obvious.
-- The de-tection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mer-cury with the Western Morning News.
-- These are the folk who must be your very special study.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A special feature of this physiognomy was its death-like pallor, which gave to the whole man an indescribably emaciated appearance in spite of his hard look, and at the same time a sort of passionate and suffering expression which did not harmonize with his impudent, sarcastic smile and keen, self-satisfied bearing.
-- This sec-ond individual wore a dress coat, and was some forty years of age; he was the general's special study servant, and well aware of his own importance.
-- 'Oh, I have no special business; my principal object was to make your acquaintance.
-- No, I don't think I have either tal-ents or special abilities of any kind; on the contrary.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, it so happened that Mr. Fang was at that moment perusing a leading article in a newspaper of the morning, adverting to some recent decision of his, and commending him, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, to the special and particular notice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
-- There were assembled, in that lower house of the domestic parliament, the women-servants, Mr. Brittles, Mr. Giles, the tinker (who had received a special invitation to regale himself for the remainder of the day, in consideration of his services), and the constable.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis as good as a Lord!And a special licence.
-- You must and shall be mar-ried by a special licence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I was come down the hill to the end of the island, where, indeed, I had never been before, I was pres-ently convinced that the seeing the print of a man's foot was not such a strange thing in the island as I imagined: and but that it was a special providence that I was cast upon the side of the island where the savages never came, I should easily have known that nothing was more frequent than for the canoes from the main, when they happened to be a little too far out at sea, to shoot over to that side of the island for harbour: likewise, as they often met and fought in their ca-noes, the victors, having taken any prisoners, would bring them over to this shore, where, according to their dreadful customs, being all cannibals, they would kill and eat them; of which hereafter.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Answer by special messenger when you get this, and, darling, I must see you.
-- She had no special evidence wherewith to justify herself--the knowledge of something which would give her both authority and excuse.
-- She looked for nothing save what might come legitimately and without the appearance of special favour.
-- This removes it at once beyond the special care of the founder.
-- Among other things, he noticed a circular issued by one of the companies, which read: ATLANTIC AVENUE RAILROAD SPECIAL NOTICE The motormen and conductors and other employees of this company having abruptly left its service, an opportunity is now given to all loyal men who have struck against their will to be reinstated, providing they will make their applications by twelve o'clock noon on Wednesday, January 16th.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard III.............Mr. Garrick Richmond................Mr. Kean Also: (by special request) Hamlet's Immortal Soliloquy !!
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