qualify是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为v. (使) 具有资格, 证明合格; 限制, 限定; 修饰,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《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber'smanners peculiarly qualify him for the banking business.
-- Traddles having mentioned newspapers to me, as one of his hopes,I had put the two things together, and told Traddles in my letterthat I wished to know how I could qualify myself for this pursuit.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And at last, as if resolved to qualify his opinion completely for travelling round to its object, he wound it all up with astonishment at the youth and beauty of her person.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they sup-pose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by ex-perience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.
-- I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for be-ing counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They had determined to believe that in every service, except their own, a man must qualify himself, by striving early and late, and by working heart and soul, might and main.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey dif-ferent significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
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