quarter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 四分之一； 季； 一刻钟； (pl. ) 方向； (pl. ) 住处，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that quarter of the town, however, scarce-ly any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.
-- And he began describing how spiteful and uncertain she was, how if you were only a day late with your interest the pledge was lost; how she gave a quarter of the value of an ar-ticle and took five and even seven percent a month on it and so on.
-- The police-station was about a quarter of a mile off.
-- 'The notice was only brought me a quarter of an hour ago,' Raskolnikov answered loudly over his shoulder.
-- As for Koch, he spent half an hour at the silversmith's below, before he went up to the old woman and he left him at exactly a quarter to eight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After some quarter of an hour's absence, he returned.
-- What else was it possible to infer from what you said, you unkindcreature, when you know as well as I do, that on his account onlylast quarter I wouldn't buy myself a new parasol, though that oldgreen one is frayed the whole way up, and the fringe is perfectlymangy?
-- We were welcomed by a very civil woman in a white apron, whomI had seen curtseying at the door when I was on Ham's back, abouta quarter of a mile off.
-- Consequently, I was not prepared, at seven o'clock next morning,to receive the following communication, dated half-past nine in theevening; a quarter of an hour after I had left him: 'My Dear YoungFriend, 'The die is cast- all is over.
-- 'Have it carried half a quarter of an inch towardsthe temple,' said Miss Mowcher.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, I believe, if you will excuse me, Mr. Knightley, if you will not consider me as doing a very rude thing, I shall take Emma's advice and go out for a quarter of an hour.
-- A few inferior dwellings were first to be passed, and then, about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the Vicarage, an old and not very good house, almost as close to the road as it could be.
-- And, by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea a quarter of a mile off very comfortable.
-- She went, however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat grav-el walk, which led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of an hour.
-- The quarter of an hour brought her punctually to the white gate again; and Miss Smith receiving her summons, was with her without delay, and unattended by any alarm-ing young man.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It wants a quarter to six at present," said Bathsheba, looking at her watch.
-- I waited till a quarter to twelve, and found then that I was in All Souls'.
-- Boldwood in Meditation RegretBoldwood was tenant of what was called Little Weatherbury Farm, and his person was the nearest approach to aristocracy that this remoter quarter of the parish could boast of.
-- It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season.
-- It was an anxious quarter of an hour that intervened between the messenger's departure and the sound of the horse's tramp again outside.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint- Marcel.
-- It is the ugliest quarter of Paris, and, it may be added, the least known.
-- Such bosh!There," she cried, interrupting herself, "that's a quarter to ten striking at the Val-de- Grace, and not a soul stirring!"
-- He came back to this quarter of the world, to the Rue des Gres, and went into a money-lender's house; everybody knows him, Gobseck, a stuck-up rascal, that would make dominoes out of his father's bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek; it would be a difficult matter to rob _him_, for he puts all his coin into the Bank."
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