development是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 发展； 开发； 生长，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：
-- It attains an extraordinary development in those regions.
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：
-- And now, having brought you up to date in the escaped convict, the Stapletons, Dr. Mortimer, and Frankland, of Lafter Hall, let me end on that which is most important and tell you more about the Barrymores, and especially about the surprising development of last night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shouts of wonder and delight with which the development of every package was received.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
-- "There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but..." "Princess, bets!"
-- He considered the Russian peasant as occupying a stage of development intermediate between the ape and the man, and at the same time in the local assemblies no one was readier to shake hands with the peasants and listen to their opinion.
-- Socialism told him that development along these lines leads to ruin.
-- "In what are we to make higher development consist?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's so for all stages of development and classes of society.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Strongphrenological development of the organ of firmness, in Mr.Murdstone and his sister, sir.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter XVIThe hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. It was a wretched business indeed! Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Such a development of every thing most unwelcome! Such a blow for Harriet! that was the worst of all.
-- Her voice was not unsteady; but her mind was in all the perturbation that such a development of self, such a burst of threatening evil, such a confusion of sudden and perplexing emotions, must create. She listened with much inward suffering, but 500 Emmawith great outward patience, to Harriet's detail. Method-ical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit especially with the corroborating circum-stances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and grati-tude assisted the development of filial love.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so with all of us, but with no one more than Drummle: the development of whose inclination to gird in a grudging and suspicious way at the rest, was screwed out of him before the fish was taken off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Judge of the development attained by this product of damp hot soils.
-- The skull of this fossil being is a perfect ovoid without any remarkable or prominent development of the cheekbones, and without any projection of the jaw.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With some of the Chorus, he laughed about the sleepy member who had gone out into the lobby the other night, and voted the wrong way: with others, he deplored that innovating spirit in the time which could not even be prevented from taking an unnatural interest in the public service and the public money: with the physician he had a word to say about the general health; he had also a little information to ask him for, concerning a professional man of unquestioned erudition and polished manners but those credentials in their highest development he believed were the possession of other professors of the healing art (jury droop) whom he had happened to have in the witness-box the day before yesterday, and from whom he had elicited in cross-examination that he claimed to be one of the exponents of this new mode of treatment which appeared to Bar to eh? well, Bar thought so; Bar had thought, and hoped, Physician would tell him so.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham's character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had seldom been depressed before, were now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hurstwood was charmed by the development of the fact that the girl had capabilities.
-- He really had a very bright mind, which was finding its chief development in electrical knowledge.
-- Carrie could not say anything else, but somehow this development shocked her.
-- If one thinks that such thoughts do not come to so common a type of mind--that such feelings require a higher mental development-- I would urge for their consideration the fact that it is the higher mental development that does away with such thoughts.
-- It is the higher mental development which induces philosophy and that fortitude which refuses to dwell upon such things--refuses to be made to suffer by their consideration.
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