definition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 定义， 解释； (轮廓影像等的) 清晰度； 阐明；，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as SPIRIT, WILL, FREEDOM, ESSENCE, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was likely to turn abusive, particularly as to her definition of Big Men, and when he became hot and vulgar, she turned grande dame, so that he felt like an impertinent servant and was the more vulgar.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The series of novels I projected being mainly of the kind called local, they seemed to require a territorial definition of some sort to lend unity to their scene.
-- Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint, like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite, snow-white ladies'-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Administering the definition like Tar-water.
-- But Joe was readier with his definition than I had expected, and completely stopped me by arguing circularly, and answering with a fixed look, "Her."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Give me your definition of a horse.'
-- 'Girl number twenty possessed of no facts, in reference to one of the commonest of animals!Some boy's definition of a horse.
-- 'Your definition of a horse.'
-- Her capacity of definition might be easily stated at a very low figure, her mathematical knowledge at nothing; yet he was not sure that if he had been required, for example, to tick her off into columns in a parliamentary return, he would have quite known how to divide her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy's definition of Jo's idea of independence was such a good hit that both burst out laughing, and the discussion took a more amiable turn.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation.
-- But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.
-- By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.
-- But the creatures set down above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my definition of what a whale is i.e.
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