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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These shoes had a peculiarity which did not escape the Major; it was a trefoil clumsily cut on the back part.
-- At last, one day being fairly driven in a corner by the intractable Major, he ended by confiding to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity which would facilitate his apprehension should the police ever be on his track.
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：
-- The western win-dow through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house it commands the nearest outlook on the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, Alexandra Iva-novna liked to sleep late, and was always dreaming, though her dreams had the peculiarity of being as innocent and naive as those of a child of seven; and the very innocence of her dreams annoyed her mother.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
-- To them he was no more than a beach-comber in constant need of money, remarkable only for the peculiarity that he painted pictures which seemed to them absurd; and it was not till he had been dead for some years and agents came from the dealers in Paris and Berlin to look for any pictures which might still remain on the island, that they had any idea that among them had dwelt a man of consequence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The same peculiarity marked the tools and utensils; all were new, which proved that the articles had not been taken by chance and thrown into the chest, but, on the contrary, that the choice of things had been well considered and arranged with care.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw plainly the mysterious peculiarity that distinguishes every individual from every other individual.
-- Notwithstanding the unnatural whiteness and fullness of her face, this pleasant peculiarity was in the face, in the lips, in the slightly squinting eyes, and, principally, in the naive, smiling glance, and in the expression of submissiveness not only in the face, but in the whole figure.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a peculiarity of Hermione's, that at every moment, she had one intimate, and turned all the rest of those present into onlookers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, if to this consideration you superadd the official supremacy of a ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
-- This peculiarity is most vividly hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish.
-- This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown.
-- This peculiarity of the whale's eyes is a thing always to be borne in mind in the fishery; and to be remembered by the reader in some subsequent scenes.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of re-gard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pronunciation of certain syllables gave to her lips this peculiarity of formation--a formation as suggestive and moving as pathos itself.
-- Suddenly he turned to considering the peculiarity of her disposition, expressing her feelings so frankly.
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