circumstance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 情况, 形势; 环境; 事件，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：
-- It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
-- A singular circumstance then arose in the case.
-- A happy circumstance for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly favoured! always was for Eng-land (by way of example), in the regretted days of the merry Stuart who sold it.
-- A blush on the coun-tenance of Monsieur the Marquis was no impeachment of his high breeding; it was not from within; it was occasioned by an external circumstance beyond his control the set-ting sun.
-- Something had gone wrong with him; at least, so Young Jerry inferred, from the circumstance of his holding Mrs. Cruncher by the ears, and knocking the back of her head against the head-board of the bed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The question of her feelings, of what has passed and may be passing in her soul, that's not my affair; that's the affair of her conscience, and falls under the head of religion," he said to himself, feeling consolation in the sense that he had found to which division of regulating principles this new circumstance could be properly referred.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea was less boisterous, since the wind came off land a fortunate circumstance for the boat, which would suffer, owing to its small tonnage, by a heavy surge on the sea.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A peculiar circumstance attract-ed his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on, there were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands, and riff-raff of all sorts, all singing and all more or less drunk.
-- One trifling circumstance upset his calculations, before he had even left the staircase.
-- It was not that he understood, but he felt clearly with all the intensity of sensation that he could never more appeal to these people in the police-office with sentimental effusions like his recent outburst, or with anything what-ever; and that if they had been his own brothers and sisters and not police-officers, it would have been utterly out of the question to appeal to them in any circumstance of life.
-- 'I can't say that; but another circumstance interests me in the case the whole question, so to say.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That there werenow occasional sounds of feet and voices overhead which heinferred the cotton did not exclude, from the circumstance of hisevidently being clutched by the lady as a victim on whom toexpend her superabundant agitation when the sounds wereloudest.
-- It was a happy circumstance for me that Traddles came back first.
-- An accidental circumstance cemented the intimacy betweenSteerforth and me, in a manner that inspired me with great prideand satisfaction, though it sometimes led to inconvenience.
-- The only circumstance which gave me anynew hope, was my aunt's stopping on the stairs to inquire about asmell of fire that was prevalent there; and Janet's replying that shehad been making tinder down in the kitchen, of my old shirt.
-- 'When I happened to say to that naughty thing the other day,'pursued her mother, shaking her head and her fan at her playfully,'that there was a family circumstance she might mention to you-indeed, I think, was bound to mention- she said, that to mention itwas to ask a favour; and that, as you were too generous, and as forher to ask was always to have, she wouldn't.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not par-ticularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
-- 'How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended.
-- Yes, Harriet, just so long have I been wanting the very circumstance to happen what has happened.
-- You and Mr. Elton are by situation called together; you belong to one an-other by every circumstance of your respective homes.
-- Emma's sense of right however had decided it; and besides the consider-ation of what was due to each brother, she had particular pleasure, from the circumstance of the late disagreement between Mr. Knightley and herself, in procuring him the proper invitation.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But heartless circumstance could not leave entire Gabriel's happiness of this morning.
-- The circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own.
-- The force of the farmer's threats lay in their relation to a circumstance known at present only to herself: her lover was coming back to Weatherbury in the course of the very next day or two.
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