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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The character of a first minister of state in European courts.
-- 'That our institutions of government and law were plain-ly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence in virtue; because reason alone is sufficient to govern a -rational creature; which was, therefore, a character we had no pretence to challenge, even from the account I had given of my own people; although he manifestly perceived, that, in order to favour them, I had concealed many particulars, and often said the thing which was not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lastly, he was to wind them up by appearing in his favourite character of Mr. William Button, of Tooley Street, in 'the highly novel and laughable hippo-comedietta of The Tailor's Journey to Brentford.'
-- I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
-- His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
-- He thought of the waste of the best part of his life, of the change it made in his character for the worse every day, of the dreadful nature of his existence, bound hand and foot, to a dead woman, and tormented by a demon in her shape.
-- 'Well, ma'am,' resumed Bounderby, 'under these circumstances, I imagine it would not be agreeable to a character like yours to remain here, though you would be very welcome here.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was most graciously received by M. Finsen, the mayor, who as far as costume went, was quite as military as the governor, but also from character and occupation quite as pacific.
-- We had scarcely got a hundred yards from Gardar, when the character of the country changed.
-- Sneffels is the termination of a long range of volcanic mountains, of a different character to the system of the island itself.
-- The abrupt character of the slopes momentarily increased, but these remarkable stone steps, a little less difficult than those of the Egyptian pyramids, were the one simple natural means by which we were enabled to proceed.
-- It resembled the fearful phenomenon of a similar character known to the travelers in the desert of the great Sahara.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She belonged to one of the best families, and had the character to carry it off.
-- He as good as told me I was a disreputable character also walked about with my breeches' buttons undone, and I as good as told him he'd nothing to unbutton anyhow, so he gave me the sack, and I leave on Saturday week, and the place thereof shall know me no more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is also my character to govern.
-- Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern!One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
-- The shadow in which she sat, falling like a gloomy veil across her forehead, accorded very well with the character of her beauty.
-- 'Well!There's character in that, too.'
-- Sometimes Little Dorrit was employed at her needle, sometimes not, sometimes appeared as a humble visitor: which must have been her character on the occasion of his arrival.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I also observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which she wears, so I conclude that she has learned to think of other people more and of herself less, and has decided to try and mold her character as carefully as she molds her lit-tle clay figures.
-- These offend-ing features gave character to her whole face, but she never could see it, and consoled herself with her wonderfully fair complexion, keen blue eyes, and curls more golden and abundant than ever.
-- Meg admired the tragedy, so Jo piled up the agony to suit her, while Amy objected to the fun, and, with the best intentions in life, Jo quenched the spritly scenes which relieved the somber character of the story.
-- 'We read a story of yours the other day, and enjoyed it very much,' observed the elder Miss Lamb, wishing to com-pliment the literary lady, who did not look the character just then, it must be confessed.
-- 'You've a deal more principle and generosity and noble-ness of character than I ever gave you credit for, Amy.
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