proficiency是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 熟练, 进步，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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were, the great advantages of the trade, the proficiency of the Dodger, the amiability of Charley Bates, and the liberality of the Jew himself.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My master was eager to learn 'whence I came; how I ac-quired those appearances of reason, which I discovered in all my actions; and to know my story from my own mouth, which he hoped he should soon do by the great proficiency I made in learning and pronouncing their words and sen-tences.'
-- Four times a year the 344 Gulliver's Travelsyouth of a certain district meet to show their proficiency in running and leaping, and other feats of strength and agility; where the victor is rewarded with a song in his or her praise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is obvious that, having devoted herself from infancy to this one pursuit and study, Miss Brass could know but little of the world, otherwise than in connection with the law; and that from a lady gifted with such high tastes, proficiency in those gentler and softer arts in which women usually excel, was scarcely to be looked for.
-- Of these Mr Quilp delivered himself with the utmost animation and rapidity, and with so many distortions of limb and feature, that even his wife, although tolerably well accustomed to his proficiency in these respects, was well-nigh beside herself with alarm.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My ardour was indeed the aston-ishment of the students, and my proficiency that of the masters.
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
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：
-- The years during which he was struggling to acquire proficiency in a difficult art were monotonous, and I do not know that there was anything significant in the shifts to which he was put to earn enough money to keep him.
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