peculiarity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 特性， 独特性； 怪癖，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：
-- Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and dis-use.
-- It was Stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space.
-- There was a peculiarity in his manner of shaking hands, al-ways to be seen in any clerk at Tellson's who shook hands with a customer when the House pervaded the air.
-- Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infi-nitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off.
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：
-- A Beginning very author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or Ein his style of writing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 10 When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
-- The muscles of both hind- and fore-legs were not very thick; but across her shoulders the mare was exceptionally broad, a peculiarity specially striking now that she was lean from training.
-- Vronsky and all his comrades knew Kuzovlev and his peculiarity of "weak nerves" and terrible vanity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It might be some peculiarity of this particular broth.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We may note in passing, one peculiarity in regard to all the final resolutions taken by him in the matter; they had one strange characteristic: the more final they were, the more hideous and the more absurd they at once became in his eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not a pliant face, he had rather a stiffneck, rather a tight smooth head with short hair clinging to it at thesides, a soft way of speaking, with a peculiar habit of whisperingthe letter S so distinctly, that he seemed to use it oftener than anyother man; but every peculiarity that he had he made respectable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harriet's features are very delicate, which makes a like-ness difficult; and yet there is a peculiarity in the shape of the eye and the lines about the mouth which one ought to catch.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This instrument being several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of going either too fast or not at all.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- "No, 'twas Andrew," said Jacob's son Billy, a child of forty, or thereabouts, who manifested the peculiarity of possessing a cheerful soul in a gloomy body, and whose whiskers were assuming a chinchilla shade here and there.
-- They were crowded close together on the other side around some furze bushes, and the first peculiarity observable was that, on the sudden appearance of Oak's head over the fence, they did not stir or run away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another peculiarity of his was, that he always stepped a yard at a time, clenched his fists as if he were going to hit you, and was, when in one of his peculiar humors, very far from a pleasant companion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a peculiarity of Affery Flintwinch that she never spoke of Mrs Clennam by name.
-- The peculiarity of my temper is, ma'am, that I won't be swallowed up alive.'
-- What a strange peculiarity on the part of Mr Meagles, and where should we find another such case!
-- This peculiarity has been observed in birds of quite another feather, climbing upon golden wires.
-- 'I point out to you, sir, with indignation, that hum the ha delicacy and peculiarity of your father's position should strike you dumb, sir, if nothing else should, in laying down such ha such unnatural principles.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet.
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