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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, this bad habit of squatters or natives will end in the destruction of these magnificent trees, and they will disappear like the cedars of Lebanon, those world monuments burnt by unlucky camp fires.
-- That part of the country had hitherto escaped the horrors of war, and the natives were not in the habit of scouring the country.
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：
-- 'Has been in the habit of carrying this stick behind his master.
-- Sir Charles was a widower, and a man who may be said to have been in some ways of an eccentric habit of mind.
-- Sir Charles Baskerville was in the habit every night before going to bed of walk-ing down the famous Yew Alley of Baskerville Hall.
-- That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk, in the course of which he was in the habit of smoking a cigar.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabetha Prokofievna sometimes informed the girls that they were a little too candid in this matter, but in spite of their outward deference to their mother these three young women, in solemn conclave, had long agreed to modify the unquestioning obedience which they had been in the habit of according to her; and Mrs. General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the fact.
-- Mrs. Epanchin was in the habit of holding herself very straight, and staring before her, without speaking, in mo- ments of excitement.
-- After your confession, that is weakness, of course; but, after all, how can anyone give up a bad habit at a moment's notice?
-- 'In Moscow,' I said, 'there was an old state counsellor, a civil general, who, all his life, had been in the habit of vis-iting the prisons and speaking to criminals.
-- The girls generally rose at about nine in the morning in the country; Aglaya, of late, had been in the habit of getting up rather earlier and having a walk in the garden, but not at seven o'clock; about eight or a little later was her usual time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had fancied they might serve for meat, but a rabbit-like habit of devour-ing their young had defeated this intention.
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：
-- Accident, or one of those un-accountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America, and distinguished by their habit of pacing.
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：
-- I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves.
-- Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the country, but it was his habit every August to take his family to Eastbourne for change of air; and it was here, when she was twenty, that she met Charles Strickland.
-- The fact that he had never changed suggested a sluggishness of habit which seemed to me characteristic.
-- I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.
-- It was a much larger one than he himself was in the habit of using, and he wondered what it did there.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 18 Cyrus Harding's project had succeeded, but, according to his usual habit he showed no satisfaction; with closed lips and a fixed look, he remained motionless.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here his preference was to close his eyes and dream of other days, a habit which grew upon him.
-- He was unconscious of just how much this habit had hold of him until one day he found his lips repeating an old answer he had made to one of his friends.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For be it known, that, while other people, when sad and sorrowful, weep and wipe their eyes, Fire Eater, on the other hand, had the strange habit of sneezing each time he felt unhappy.
-- The Fairy showed no pity toward him, as she was trying to teach him a good lesson, so that he would stop telling lies, the worst habit any boy may acquire.
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