individual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 个人的, 个体的, 个别的; n. 个人, 个体，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：
-- Verne has perhaps had a larger share than any other single individual in causing the ever-increasing yearly tide of international travel.
-- Mr. Olbinett chanced to be passing that minute on his way from the galley, and what was his astonishment at hearing himself addressed like this by a lanky individual of whom he had no knowledge whatever.
-- But he remarks that there is this difference: the armorial bearings of Europe are frequently a proof only of the merits of the first who bore them, and are no certificate of the merits of his descendants; while the individual coat-of-arms of the Maori is an irrefragible proof that it was earned by the display of extraordinary personal courage.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This sec-ond individual wore a dress coat, and was some forty years of age; he was the general's special study servant, and well aware of his own importance.
-- It is a question, above all, of making a wholesome example; the individual case can be examined afterwards; and as to the style well, the thing was meant to be humorous, so to speak, and, after all, every-body writes like that; you must admit it yourself!Ha, ha!'
-- Among our suburban resorts there are some which enjoy a specially high reputation for respectability and fashion; but the most careful individual is not absolutely exempt from the danger of a tile falling suddenly upon his head from his neighbour's roof.
-- Without recourse to any moral principle, having for your foundation only individual selfishness, and the satisfaction of material desires?
-- He told me of his joy, the joyful feeling of having done a good action; he said that it was all thanks to myself that he could feel this satisfaction; and held forth about the foolishness of the theory that individual charity is useless 'I, too, was burning to have my say!
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the gaunt, taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel.
-- This individual stared fixedly at me without moving or speaking.
-- As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most grotesque movements.
-- Montgomery and Moreau were too peculiar and individual to keep my general impressions of humanity well defined.
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：
-- The person of this individual was to the last degree un-gainly, without being in any particular manner deformed.
-- The ill-assorted and injudicious attire of the individual only served to render his awkwardness more conspicuous.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
-- Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A weakness on his part, which affords the narrative an opportunity of relieving the reader from suspense, in behalf of the two young pupils of the Merry Old Gentleman; and of recording-- That when the Dodger, and his accomplished friend Master Bates, joined in the hue-and-cry which was raised at Oliver's heels, in consequence of their executing an illegal conveyance of Mr. Brownlow's personal property, as has been already described, they were actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so, I need hardly beg the reader to observe, that this action should tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the main-springs of all Nature's deeds and actions: the said philosophers very wisely reducing the good lady's proceedings to matters of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling.
-- A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Against the interest of her own individual comfort, Mrs. Dashwood had determined that it would be better for Marianne to be any where, at that time, than at Barton, where every thing within her view would be bringing back the past in the strongest and most afflicting manner, by constantly placing Willoughby before her, such as she had always seen him there.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lest this order of individual should permanently pass, let me put down some of the most striking characteristics of his most successful manner and method.
-- Once an individual has passed this faint line on the way downward he will get no glance from her.
-- This line the individual at her elbow now marked for Carrie.
-- There was something satisfactory in the attention of this individual with his good clothes.
-- It was a characteristic of Chicago then, and one not generally shared by other cities, that individual firms of any pretension occupied individual buildings.
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