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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They belong to the tribe; they were a sort of small change thrown among the mourners, and the moment the sacrifice was over, the whole crowd, chiefs, warriors, old men, women, children, without distinction of age, or sex, fell upon the senseless remains with brutal appetite.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are points of distinction about it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was not surprised by the attentions he received from Mr Chivery when that officer was on the lock, for he made little distinction between Mr Chivery's politeness and that of the other turnkeys.
-- Miss Rugg was a lady of a little property which she had acquired, together with much distinction in the neighbourhood, by having her heart severely lacerated and her feelings mangled by a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage.
-- I perfectly exhaust myself sometimes, in pointing out the distinction to Edmund Sparkler.'
-- Both these young persons of distinction were something the worse for late hours.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
-- Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is this the first lives aft, the last forward.
-- The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its great honorableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, to do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be at tained, will justify; the amount of the right, or the amount of the wrong, or indeed the distinction between the two, being left entirely to the philosopher concerned, to be settled and determined by his clear, comprehensive, and impartial view of his own particular case.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly.
-- It is something to think of, and it gives her a sort of distinction among her compan-ions.
-- She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved.'
-- Elizabeth, particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It happened that he had appointed to go out in this boat, either for pleasure or for fish, with two or three Moors of some distinction in that place, and for whom he had provided extraordinarily, and had, therefore, sent on board the boat overnight a larger store of provisions than ordinary; and had ordered me to get ready three fusees with powder and shot, which were on board his ship, for that they designed some sport of fowling as well as fishing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "How strange this is!what can be the meaning of it!But the whole of their behaviour to each other has been unaccountable!How cold, how composed were their last adieus!How languid their conversation the last evening of their being together!In Edward's farewell there was no distinction between Elinor and me: it was the good wishes of an affectionate brother to both.
-- After a short pause he resumed the conversation by saying, "Does your sister make no distinction in her objections against a second attachment?
-- When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person. Their manners were particularly civil, and Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense, when she saw with what constant and judicious attention they were making themselves agreeable to Lady Middleton.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made the average feminine distinction between clothes, putting worth, goodness, and distinction in a dress suit, and leaving all the unlovely qualities and those beneath notice in overalls and jumper.
-- Drouet wore patent leather but Carrie could not help feeling that there was a distinction in favour of the soft leather, where all else was so rich.
-- A noted comic opera comedian was holding forth that week, and the air of distinction and prosperity overawed her.
-- In Chicago the two roads to distinction were politics and trade.
-- The world of wealth and distinction was quite as far away as ever.
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