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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connection with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a panting dog.
-- Some of them are now rolling in riches, unmindful of their old companion and friend, ma'am, others are in the habit of calling upon me to this day and saying, "Mr Witherden, some of the pleasantest hours I ever spent in my life were spent in this office were spent, Sir, upon this very stool"; but there was never one among the number, ma'am, attached as I have been to many of them, of whom I augured such bright things as I do of your only son.'
-- Don't tell me that that handsome child has been in the habit of prowling about as she's done these last two or three days.
-- It was a maxim with Mr Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense; and, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions.
-- And this had passed into such a habit with him, that, if he could not be correctly said to have his tongue at his fingers' ends, he might certainly be said to have it anywhere but in his face: which being, as we have already seen, of a harsh and repulsive character, was not oiled so easily, but frowned above all the smooth speeches one of nature's beacons, warning off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and admonishing them to seek less treacherous harbours and try their fortune elsewhere.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he ascended the platform he seemed to be wrapped in thought, but only because he had the habit of making riddles of every question that occurred to him.
-- Returning from the church, Nekhludoff broke his fast with the aunts, and to repair his strength, drank some brandy and wine--a habit he acquired in the army--and going to his room immediately fell asleep with his clothes on.
-- And this sport became a habit with her, her life's aim.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
-- Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless.
-- And when other meat failed them, they turned to what old habit had hitherto forbidden.
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：
-- Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.
-- It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The harpooner looked at me fixedly for some moments before answering, struck his broad forehead with his hand (a habit of his), as if to collect himself, and said at last, "Perhaps I have, Mr.
-- Could not master obtain permission from his friend Captain Nemo to put us on land, if only so as not to lose the habit of treading on the solid parts of our planet?"
-- The nutmeg, with which they are in the habit of stuffing their crops, flavours their flesh and renders it delicious eating.
-- I went up on to the platform just as the second lieutenant was taking the measure of the horary angles, and waited, according to habit till the daily phrase was said.
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：
-- "He told me for instance, that to cure oneself of a bad habit, one should force oneself to do it, when one would not do it make oneself do it and then the habit would disappear."
-- And you would find the habit was broken."
-- And he answered her, in the habit of more than thirty years: "Well, I don't think I'm any the worse, dear."
-- It's not an instinct, it's a habit of cowardliness.
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