usage是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 使用， 用法； 习惯， 习俗； 惯用法，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to the im-memorial usage of waiters in all ages.
-- A revolutionary tribunal in the capi-tal, and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees all over the land; a law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could ob-tain no hearing; these things became the established order and nature of appointed things, and seemed to be ancient usage before they were many weeks old.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During that time they respected the usage es-tablished by the Law, and behaved with general decorum.
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：
-- Military usage pride that pride on which you so much value yourself, demands that your father and I should for a little while continue with the troops.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Iheard that Mr. Creakle had a son, who had not been Tungay'sfriend, and who, assisting in the school, had once held someremonstrance with his father on an occasion when its disciplinewas very cruelly exercised, and was supposed, besides, to haveprotested against his father's usage of his mother.
-- It is not really long, inweeks or months but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary,weary while.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have only two," her boarder answered meekly, like a ruined man who is broken in to all the cruel usage of misfortune.
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：
-- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave due praises to every thing I saw, whereof his excellency took not the least notice till after supper; when, there being no third companion, he told me with a very melancholy air 'that he doubted he must throw down his houses in town and country, to rebuild them after the present mode; de-stroy all his plantations, and cast others into such a form 220 Gulliver's Travelsas modern usage required, and give the same directions to all his tenants, unless he would submit to incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance, caprice, and perhaps increase his majesty's displeasure; that the admira-tion I appeared to be under would cease or diminish, when he had informed me of some particulars which, probably, I never heard of at court, the people there being too much taken up in their own speculations, to have regard to what passed here below.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
-- If Stubb even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that day; for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the deck.
-- But this was against all rule; for the oarsmen must put out their eyes, and ram a skewer through their necks; usage pronouncing that they must have no organs but ears, and no limbs but arms, in these critical moments.
-- According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar.
-- Therefore, the common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm a'lee; and then send every one below to his hammock till daylight, with the reservation that, until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and two for an hour, each couple, the crew in rotation shall mount the deck to see that all goes well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple fact was, that Oliver, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much; and was in a fair way of being reduced, for life, to a state of brutal stupidity and sullenness by the ill usage he had received.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first Iapprehended; nor was I carried up the country to the em-peror's court, as the rest of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his business.
-- In the next place, it occurred to me that although the usage they gave one another was thus brutish and inhuman, yet it was really nothing to me: these people had done me no injury: that if they attempted, or I saw it necessary, for my immediate preservation, to fall upon them, something might be said for it: but that I was yet out of their power, and they re-ally had no knowledge of me, and consequently no design upon me; and therefore it could not be just for me to fall upon them; that this would justify the conduct of the Span-iards in all their barbarities practised in America, where they destroyed millions of these people; who, however they were idolators and barbarians, and had several bloody and barbarous rites in their customs, such as sacrificing human bodies to their idols, were yet, as to the Spaniards, very in-nocent people; and that the rooting them out of the country is spoken of with the utmost abhorrence and detestation by even the Spaniards themselves at this time, and by all other Christian nations of Europe, as a mere butchery, a bloody and unnatural piece of cruelty, unjustifiable either to God or man; and for which the very name of a Spaniard is reck-oned to be frightful and terrible, to all people of humanity or of Christian compassion; as if the kingdom of Spain were particularly eminent for the produce of a race of men who were without principles of tenderness, or the common bow-els of pity to the miserable, which is reckoned to be a mark of generous temper in the mind.
-- CHAPTER XVII - VISIT OF MUTINEERSIN a little time, however, no more canoes appearing, the fear of their coming wore off; and I began to take my for-mer thoughts of a voyage to the main into consideration; being likewise assured by Friday's father that I might de-pend upon good usage from their nation, on his account, if I would go.
-- After I had observed the outrageous usage of the three men by the insolent seamen, I observed the fellows run scattering about the island, as if they wanted to see the country.
-- They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have pro-visions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the en-trance.
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