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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was a bachelor, and in nobody's debt, nobody troubled his head any more about him; the school was removed to a different quarter of the Hollow, and an-other pedagogue reigned in his stead.
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：
-- The quarter was not fashionable; it was not even respectable.
-- Lots of fellows in the Quarter share a studio.
-- We continued thus for perhaps a quarter of a mile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- its extreme breadth was not more than a quarter of a mile.
-- After having walked for a quarter of an hour, the sailor and the boy arrived at the angle which the river made in turning towards the left.
-- The turn of the rocks sheltered them from the wind, and they could breathe after this walk or rather run of a quarter of an hour.
-- I followed them for a quarter of a mile, running, but taking care not to destroy them.
-- "Never mind," added the sailor, "I should like very much to be Top just for a quarter of an hour, for he doesn't bark for nothing!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty little girl, who begged to be directed to a certain street at a considerable distance, and indeed in quite another quarter of the town.
-- Sound it might have been, but long it was not, for he had not been asleep a quarter of an hour when the boy opened the door and thrust in his head, which was like a bundle of badly-picked oakum.
-- If he withdrew them for a moment, it was only to glance at a clock in some neighbouring shop, and then to strain his sight once more in the old quarter with increased earnestness and attention.
-- At length, the clock was hidden from his sight by some envious shutters, then the church steeples proclaimed eleven at night, then the quarter past, and then the conviction seemed to obtrude itself on his mind that it was no use tarrying there any longer.
-- In about a quarter of an hour Mr Chuckster (with a pen behind his ear and his face inflamed with wine) appeared at the door, and condescending to address Kit by the jocose appellation of 'Young Snob,' informed him that the visitors were coming out.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm hanged if it isn't a quarter to one," said the Journalist.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arms are easy found, in the sand-hill, N. point of north inlet cape, bearing E. and a quarter N.J.F.
-- "Well, I tell you now," replied the lad, "I didn't half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you, John; but there's my hand on it now."
-- Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood.
-- I was scarce a quarter of a mile to seaward, and it was my first thought to paddle in and land.
-- There's seven hundred thousand pound not a quarter of a mile from here.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and 72脗掳 15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea.
-- The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive weapons, two yards and a quarter in length, and fifteen inches in diameter at the base.
-- So in a quarter of an hour, perhaps less, the frigate would have sailed without me.
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