character是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 性格， 品质， 特性； 人物， 角色； 字符， (汉) 字，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：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.
-- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
-- 'For gracious sake say something else besides 'indeed,' or you'll fidget me to death,' said Miss Pross: whose character (dissociated from stature) was shortness.
-- 'I have been there, as you remember,' said Darnay, with a smile, though reddening a little angrily, 'in another char-acter, and not in a character that gives facilities for seeing much of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have a character that's all of a piece, and you want the whole of life to be of a piece too--but that's not how it is.
-- I'm not one of those men who submit to uneasiness and worry without having the force of character to face them."
-- In addition to his farming, which called for special attention in spring, and in addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable data of the question, like the climate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the laborer.
-- Yet, elevated as Madame Stahl's character was, touching as was her story, and exalted and moving as was her speech, Kitty could not help detecting in her some traits which perplexed her.
-- If it had not been a characteristic of Levin's to put the most favorable interpretation on people, Sviazhsky's character would have presented no doubt or difficulty to him: he would have said to himself, "a fool or a knave," and everything would have seemed clear.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs, history, and character of India and its people.
-- When Fix revealed his true character and purpose, why had he not told Mr. Fogg?
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：
-- And Darya Frantsov-na, a woman of evil character and very well known to the police, had two or three times tried to get at her through the landlady.
-- If I had written the whole truth to you, I dare say you would have thrown up everything and have come to us, even if you had to walk all the way, for I know your character and your feelings, and you would not let your sister be insulted.
-- But we will talk about her character later芒聙娄.
-- 'How can you, a doctor, whose duty it is to study man and who has more opportunity than anyone else for studying human nature how can you fail to see the character of the man in the whole story?
-- And do you suppose, from the character of our legal system, that they will accept, or that they are in a posi-tion to accept, this fact resting simply on a psychological impossibility as irrefutable and conclusively breaking down the circumstantial evidence for the prosecution?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jane Murdstone,' said herbrother, 'be silent!How dare you to insinuate that you don't knowmy character better than your words imply?'
-- I havethought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessaryconsequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow 55him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severestpenalties he could find any excuse for.
-- I cannot think I was a very dangerous character in any ofthese aspects, but in all of them I carried the same warning on myback.
-- PoorTraddles- I never think of that boy but with a strange dispositionto laugh, and with tears in my eyes- was a sort of chorus, ingeneral, and affected to be convulsed with mirth at the comic parts,and to be overcome with fear when there was any passage of analarming character in the narrative.
-- I think I had someglimpses of the real character of this conversation at the time; but Iam sure, now, that the good creature originated it, and took herpart in it, merely that my mother might comfort herself with thelittle contradictory summary in which she had indulged.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her character depends upon those she is with; but in good hands she will turn out a valuable wom-an.'
-- If they are anxious to see you happily married, here is a man whose amiable character gives every assurance of it; if they wish to have you settled in the same country and circle which they have chosen to place you in, here it will be accomplished; and if their only object is that you should, in the common phrase, be well married, here is the comfortable fortune, the respectable establishment, the rise in the world which must satisfy them.'
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