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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One particular feature was his eyes, rather far from each other, and which could take in nearly a quarter of the horizon at once.
-- It is a quarter to twelve; I will go up again to the surface."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little drama went on for a quarter of an hour.
-- The lake was sunk to quarter size, it had horrible raw banks of clay, that smelled of raw rottenish water.
-- "Draw him and quarter him and dish him up," he said, being purposely fatuous.
-- It was in a poor quarter of the town.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a Testament, in lean type, and smelling dreadfully musty: a fly leaf bore the inscription 'Catherine Earnshaw, her book,' and a date some quarter of a century back.
-- I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on!'Begone!'
-- He had grown sparer, and lost his colour, and spoke and dressed quite differently; and, on the very day of his return, he told Joseph and me we must thenceforth quarter ourselves in the back kitchen, and leave the house for him.
-- And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and, wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him re enter directly!
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