institution是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 公共机构； 协会； 学校； 研究所； 制度； 惯例，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Others even attempted public outrages upon the institution of monog-amy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force.
-- And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Does our institution interest you?"
-- And as though justifying himself, he began to recount all the conveniences enjoyed by the prisoners in a manner to make one believe that the chief aim of the institution consisted in making it a pleasant place of abode.
-- Walking up the grand, solemn staircase to the second floor, the lawyer, who was familiar with all the passages, turned into a room to the left, on the door of which was carved the year of the institution of the Code.
-- The highest judicial institution has affirmed what was absolutely unjust."
-- His fourth concern consisted in solving the question, Why, how and whence came that remarkable institution called the Criminal Court, to which was due the existence of that prison, with the inmates of which he had become somewhat familiar, and all those places of confinement, beginning with the fortress dedicated to two saints, Peter and Paul, and ending with the island of Saghalin, where hundreds and thousands of victims of that wonderful criminal law were languishing?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She walked by this institution several times hesitating, but, finding herself unobserved, faltered past the screen door and stood humble waiting.
-- It must be that a strange bundle of passions and vague desires give rise to such a curious social institution or it would not be.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Please, ma'am, could I inquire if this highly instructive and charming institution is a new one?'
-- cried Laurie, resolving, with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for the express benefit of young wom-en with artistic tendencies.
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