habit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 习惯， 习性， 脾性，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then.
-- 22 Sons and Lovers It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thought-ful, to put his hands in his breeches pockets.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not much in the habit of such travelling your-self, I think, sir?'
-- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
-- That, it was certain the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of pass-ing and repassing between France and England, on secret business of which he could give no honest account.
-- Nor would it have been an expectation of a hopeful kind, since a small part of his income was derived from the pilotage of timid women (mostly of a full habit and past the middle term of life) from Tellson's side of the tides to the opposite shore.
-- He was also in the habit of declaiming to Mrs. Stryver, over his full-bodied wine, on the arts Mrs. Darnay had once put in practice to 'catch' him, and on the diamond-cut-diamond arts in himself, madam, which had rendered him 'not to be caught.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I beg your pardon,' said the learned man; 'it is an old habit with me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so Liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
-- She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him.
-- "It's very flattering for me, countess, that you remember my words so well," responded Levin, who had succeeded in recovering his composure, and at once from habit dropped into his tone of joking hostility to the Countess Nordston.
-- "How nice you've come in good time," he said to her, embracing her waist; "such a bad habit to be late."
-- But Countess Lidia Ivanovna, though she was interested in everything that did not concern her, had a habit of never listening to what interested her; she interrupted Anna: "Yes, there's plenty of sorrow and evil in the world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
-- After this meeting, Passepartout and Fix got into the habit of chatting together, the latter making it a point to gain the worthy man's confidence.
-- Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr. Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further; to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
-- "You were in the habit of playing whist," resumed Fix, "on the steamers."
-- "As I am in the habit of doing."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this may startle you--oh, you had a lot of crank notions when you were in school, but you aren't the only one that does some thinking for himself!--sometimes I believe it'd be better for the general health situation if there weren't any public health departments at all, because they get a lot of people into the habit of going to free clinics instead of to private physicians, and cut down the earnings of the doctors and reduce their number, so there are less of us to keep a watchful eye on sickness.
-- But they fell into the habit of social ease, of dressing, of going places without nervous anticipation.
-- For Pickerbaugh had the dreadful habit of cold showers, even in winter, though he might have known that nineteen men between the ages of seventeen and forty-two died of cold showers in twenty-two years in Milwaukee alone.
-- Under the martinet eye of Col. Director Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs he had to wear his uniform, at least recognizable portions of it, at the Institute, but by evening he slipped into the habit of sneaking into citizen clothes, and when he went with Leora to the movies he had an agreeable feeling of being Absent Without Leave, of risking at every street corner arrest by the Military Police and execution at dawn.
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：
-- From time to time, he would mutter something, from the habit of talking to himself, to which he had just confessed.
-- Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here, and he had most 22 Crime and Punishment likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern.
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