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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was on the moor path, about a quarter of a mile off, and a lady was by his side who could only be Miss Stapleton.
-- 'If he isn't out in a quarter of an hour the path will be covered.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just that instant when you place your head on the block and hear the iron grate over your head then that quarter of a second is the most awful of all.
-- But he felt at ease in another moment; it only needed one glance at the prince to see that in that quarter there was nothing to fear.
-- Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
-- Well, Kolpakoff went back to the barracks, lay down on a camp bedstead, and in a quarter of an hour was dead: you quite understand?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles answered, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from what-soever quarter it may come.
-- As he went his way over the waves the sea-monsters left their lairs, for they knew their lord, and came gambolling round him from every quarter of the deep, while the sea in her glad-ness opened a path before his chariot.
-- As when there is a heavy swell upon the sea, but the waves are dumb they keep their eyes on the watch for the quarter whence the fierce winds may spring upon them, but they stay where they are and set neither this way nor that, till some particular wind sweeps down from heaven to de-termine them even so did the old man ponder whether to make for the crowd of Danaans, or go in search of Agamem-non.
-- The Trojans are fighting stubbornly and without ceasing at the ships; look where you may you cannot see from what quarter the rout of the Achaeans is coming; they are being killed in a confused mass and the battle-cry ascends to heaven; let us think, if counsel can be of any use, what we had better do; but I do not advise our going into battle ourselves, for a man cannot fight when he is wounded.'
-- As one who has grown a fine young olive tree in a clear space where there is abun-dance of water the plant is full of promise, and though the winds beat upon it from every quarter it puts forth its white blossoms till the blasts of some fierce hurricane sweep down upon it and level it with the ground even so did Menelaus strip the fair youth Euphorbus of his armour after he had slain him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon in its first quarter hung over the westward hill, and the stars were clear and almost tropically bright.
-- It creaked, and the seat was depressed the quarter of an inch or so.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We remained talking on the quarter deck until the sky was thick with stars.
-- The chase lay through the brake for perhaps a quarter of a mile, and then plunged into a dense thicket, which retarded our movements exceeding-ly, though we went through it in a crowd together, fronds flicking into our faces, ropy creepers catching us under the chin or gripping our ankles, thorny plants hooking into and tearing cloth and flesh together.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whine had changed to a sort of humming purr that seemed to come from every quarter of the compass.
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：
-- While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too common-place, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
-- The latter did not, however, so much re-gret this circumstance, as it might enable him to retard the speed of the party; for he still turned his longing looks in the direction of Fort Edward, in the vain expectation of catching some sound from that quarter of the forest, which might denote the approach of succor.
-- In this extremity he heard a voice near him, shouting: 'Extarminate the varlets!no quarter to an accursed Min-go!'
-- Discouraged by an assault from a quarter that left them no opportunity for cover, the warriors uttered a common yell of disappoint-ment, and breaking off in a body, they spread themselves across the opening, heedless of every consideration but flight.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
-- This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story; and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
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