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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lost sight of her, and in about a quarter of an hour 124 Frankensteinshe returned bearing the pail, which was now partly filled with milk.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, Tara layjust ahead, and after the next quarter of a mile, the horse could drop in the shafts if he liked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.
-- Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
-- Estella opened the gate as usual, and, the moment she appeared, Joe took his hat off and stood weighing it by the brim in both his hands; as if he had some urgent reason in his mind for being particular to half a quarter of an ounce.
-- We were noticing this, and saying how that the mist rose with a change of wind from a certain quarter of our marshes, when we came upon a man, slouching under the lee of the turnpike house.
-- Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o'clock to a quarter before ten.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He inspect-ed each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: 'The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.'
-- 'A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood; her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below; you surely must know it,' replied Little Red-Cap.
-- So he laid himself down, and sleep fell upon him unawares, so that he did not wake up till the clock was striking a quarter to twelve.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor girl was almost distracted: that quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of his forepaws, and feeding me with the other, by cramming into my mouth some victuals he had squeezed out of the bag on one side of his chaps, and patting me when I would not eat; whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear laughing; nei-ther do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for, without question, the sight was ridiculous enough to every body but myself.
-- Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so sur-prising, and so astonishing!it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from ev-ery quarter of the sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind blew from the quarter where the day would soon appear, and still blew strongly.
-- He looked at his informant for full a quarter of a minute, and appeared to have the surprise in his mind all the time.
-- He turned his eyes involuntarily to his former refuge, but at a look from that quarter (expressive though instantaneous) he settled them on Mr. Bounderby's face.
-- She waited yet some quarter of an hour, as she judged.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But one thing struck his fancy, and that was a certain singular steeple situated on the Island of Amak, which is the southeast quarter of the city of Copenhagen.
-- Geographers have divided it into four parts, and we had to cross the southwest quarter which in the vernacular is called Sudvestr Fjordungr.
-- These poor priests receive from the Danish Government a most ridiculously inadequate salary, and collect one quarter of the tithe of their parish--not more than sixty marks current, or about L3 10s.
-- A quarter of an hour later Hans paused to enable us to look back.
-- The performance with the cord recommenced, and a quarter of an hour later we had reached to the depth of another two hundred feet.
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：
-- 'Shall I put dinner back a quarter of an hour?
-- 'It's quarter past seven,' he said, 'you'll do it.'
-- It's a quarter to one.'
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