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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She discovered when she grew older that Gerald had stretched the truthsomewhat, as was his habit when a little stretching would improve a story; but Atlanta was only nine years older thanshe was, and that still left the place amazingly young by comparison with any other town she had ever heard of.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
-- In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then,--which stimulated us to new exertions.
-- I opened the door to the company,--making believe that it was a habit of ours to open that door,--and I opened it first to Mr. Wopsle, next to Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, and last of all to Uncle Pumblechook.
-- So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.
-- "Well," said Joe, "to tell you the truth, I ain't much in the habit of drinking at anybody's expense but my own."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Late at night they arrived at an inn; and as it was bad 80 Grimms' Fairy Talestravelling in the dark, and the duck seemed much tired, and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other, they made up their minds to fix their quarters there: but the landlord at first was unwilling, and said his house was full, thinking they might not be very respectable company: how-ever, they spoke civilly to him, and gave him the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day: so at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome sup-per, and spent the evening very jollily.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
-- The emperor's person and habit described.
-- This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice.
-- I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands.
-- While we were ascending, they forgot several times what they were about, and left me to myself, till their memories were again roused by their flappers; for they appeared altogether unmoved by the sight of my for-eign habit and countenance, and by the shouts of the vulgar, whose thoughts and minds were more disengaged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- You have been in the habit now of reading to your father, and those people I found you among, I dare say?'
-- I understand you to have been in the habit of reading to your father?'
-- Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
-- 'Why, I have got out of the habit of taking it now, ma'am,' said Mr. Bounderby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In connection with the sciences there are many almost unpronounceable names--names very much resembling those of Welsh villages; and my uncle being very fond of using them, his habit of stammering was not thereby improved.
-- This native of Iceland was active and supple in appearance, though he scarcely moved his arms, being in fact one of those men who despise the habit of gesticulation common to southern people.
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：
-- We have the habit of each other.
-- But her love was somehow only an excursion from her marriage with Clifford; the long, slow habit of intimacy, formed through years of suffering and patience.
-- Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became ut-terly blank and nothing.
-- There was noth-ing now but this empty treadmill of what Clifford called the integrated life, the long living together of two people, who are in the habit of being in the same house with one another.
-- For Connie had got into the habit of sitting still by the fire, pretending to read; or to sew feebly, and hardly going out at all.
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