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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When, at last, his mind seemed made up touching the character of his bedfellow, and he became, as it were, reconciled to the fact; he jumped out upon the floor, and by certain signs and sounds gave me to understand that, if it pleased me, he would dress first and then leave me to dress afterwards, leaving the whole apartment to myself.
-- That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
-- But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence, in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
-- But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
-- Why to the man of untutored ideality, who happens to be but loosely acquainted with the peculiar character of the day, does the bare mention of Whitsuntide marshal in the fancy such long, dreary, speechless processions of slow-pacing pilgrims, down-cast and hooded with new-fallen snow?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXVI IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE; AND MANY THINGS, INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY, ARE DONE AND PERFORMED The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence.
-- 'The sin and wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful!If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever!'
-- 'It was in that character I saw you.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His character was decided.
-- His character is thereby complete.'
-- But to be candid without ostentation or design to take the good of every-body's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone.
-- 'Well,' said Charlotte, 'I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth.
-- It does not follow that a deep, in-tricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor was obliged, though unwillingly, to believe that the sentiments which Mrs. Jennings had assigned him for her own satisfaction, were now actually excited by her sister; and that however a general resemblance of disposition between the parties might forward the affection of Mr. Willoughby, an equally striking opposition of character was no hindrance to the regard of Colonel Brandon.
-- If it will be any satisfaction to you, however, to be told, that I believe his character to be in other respects irreproachable, I am ready to confess it.
-- But how she contrives it without reflecting on the character of her own father, who had himself two wives, I know not.
-- "I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.
-- Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a portion of the stock room which gave no idea of the general character of the place, and Carrie could form no opinion of the nature of the work.
-- It had been several years since Minnie had seen Carrie, and in that time the latter's character had developed a few shades.
-- She gained some inkling of the character of Hanson's life when, half asleep, she looked out into the dining-room at six o'clock and saw him silently finishing his breakfast.
-- So subdued was she by her weakening nerves, that she ate quite in silence going over imaginary conceptions of the character of the shoe company, the nature of the work, her employer's attitude.
-- Hurstwood was an interesting character after his kind.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One bill said, 'The celebrated Dr. Armand de Montalban, of Paris,' would 'lecture on the Sci-ence of Phrenology' at such and such a place, on the blank day of blank, at ten cents admis- sion, and 'furnish charts of character at twenty-five cents apiece.'
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