distinction是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 区别， 差别； 级别； 特性； 声望； 显赫，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old white snails were the first persons of distinction in the world, that they knew; the forest was planted for their sake, and the manor-house was there that they might be boiled and laid on a silver dish.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know it's not 'timber,'" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, hoping by this distinction to convince Levin completely of the unfairness of his doubts.
-- His connection with Madame Karenina, by creating so much sensation and attracting general attention, had given him a fresh distinction which soothed his gnawing worm of ambition for a while, but a week before that worm had been roused up again with fresh force.
-- And death, which was here in this loved brother, groaning half asleep and from habit calling without distinction on God and the devil, was not so remote as it had hitherto seemed to him.
-- They respected each other, but were in complete and hopeless disagreement upon almost every subject, not because they belonged to opposite parties, but precisely because they were of the same party (their enemies refused to see any distinction between their views); but, in that party, each had his own special shade of opinion.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under his training she would learn the distinction between vague "ideals" and the hard sureness of science.
-- He yearned over the picture of a centrifuge while Leora was admiring the "stunning seven-piece Reception Room fumed oak set, upholstered in genuine Barcelona Longware Leatherette, will give your office the class and distinction of any high-grade New York specialist's."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without exactly understanding whatlearned distinction was meant by this, I respected him greatly forit, and had no doubt whatever of his superior knowledge: thoughhe never took the pains with me- not that I was anybody- that Mr.Mell had taken.
-- Mealy's father was awaterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman,and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where someyoung relation of Mealy's- I think his little sister- did Imps in thePantomimes.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world 104 Emmaas appears at first; for a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
-- Emma perceived that her taste was not the only taste on which Mr. Weston depended, and felt, that to be the favourite and intimate of a man who had so many inti-mates and confidantes, was not the very first distinction in the scale of vanity.
-- His dancing proved to be just what she had believed it, extremely good; and Harriet would have seemed almost too lucky, if it had not been for the cruel state of things before, and for the very complete enjoyment and very high sense of the distinction which her happy features announced.
-- She had scarcely a stronger regret than for her past coldness; and the person, whom she had been so many months neglect-ing, was now the very one on whom she would have lavished every distinction of regard or sympathy.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gabriel's features adhered throughout their form so exactly to the middle line between the beauty of St. John and the ugliness of Judas Iscariot, as represented in a window of the church he attended, that not a single lineament could be selected and called worthy either of distinction or notoriety.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- la Vicomtesse de Beauseant through the Marcillacs!_ These words, on which the countess threw ever so slight an emphasis, by reason of the pride that the mistress of a house takes in showing that she only receives people of distinction as visitors in her house, produced a magical effect.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her cloth-ing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.
-- Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its in-habitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as to that infa-mous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to ob-serve, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
-- 'At ninety, they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite.
-- They will have it that nature teaches them to love the whole species, and it is reason only that makes a distinction of persons, where there is a superior degree of virtue.
-- Detractors are pleased to think it improb-able, that so illustrious a person should descend to give so great a mark of distinction to a creature so inferior as I. Nei-ther have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
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：
-- Now he realized the distinction between popular suc-cess and working success: the populace of pleasure and the populace of work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, he had naturally felt a preference for his own country, and a wish to gain distinction there, and to do whatever service he could do, there rather than elsewhere.
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