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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A stylist would not allow these ornaments, or attempts at flourishes just look at these unfinished tails! but it has distinction and really depicts the soul of the writer.
-- This writing allows for flourishes; now a flourish is a dangerous thing!Its use requires such taste, but, if suc-cessful, what a distinction it gives to the whole!It results in an incomparable type one to fall in love with!'
-- You all have a passion for beauty and distinction in outward forms; that is all you care for, isn't it?
-- As a characteristic addition to the above, it was cur-rently reported that the young prince really loved the lady to whom he was engaged, and had thrown her over out of purely Nihilistic motives, with the intention of giving him-self the satisfaction of marrying a fallen woman in the face of all the world, thereby publishing his opinion that there is no distinction between virtuous and disreputable women, but that all women are alike, free; and a 'fallen' woman, in-deed, somewhat superior to a virtuous one.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Idomeneus,' said he, 'I treat you with greater distinction than I do any oth-ers of the Achaeans, whether in war or in other things, or at table.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They advised her to be attentive to the wants of her companion, and never to forget the distinction which the Manitou had so wisely established between them.
-- Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it was a distinction to be under forty, but now to be more than twenty-five is absurd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also gave them to understand that the cooking apparatus roasted a fine piece of sirloin of beef, weighing about six pounds avoir-dupoise, in two minutes and a quarter, as he had himself witnessed, and proved by his sense of taste; and further, that, however the effect was produced, he had distinctly seen water boil and bubble up when the single gentleman winked; from which facts he (Mr Swiveller) was led to infer that the lodger was some great conjuror or chemist, or both, whose residence under that roof could not fail at some future days to shed a great credit and distinction on the name of Brass, and add a new interest to the history of Bevis Marks.
-- But even this honour and distinction is not all, for the single gentleman forthwith pulls out of his pocket a massive silver watch going hard, and right to half a second and upon the back of this watch is engraved Kit's name, with flourishes all over; and in short it is Kit's watch, bought expressly for him, and presented to him on the spot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Linton took off the grey cloak of the dairy maid which we had borrowed for our excursion, shaking her head and expostulating with her, I suppose: she was a young lady, and they made a distinction between her treatment and mine.
-- He replied audibly enough, in a fashion which made my companion vociferate, more clamorously than before, that a wide distinction might be drawn between saints like himself and sinners like his master.
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