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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other circumstance was the arrival of his clothes, when it became necessary for her to examine and identify them though this had virtually been done long before by those who inspected the letters in his pockets.
-- It was very odd to these two persons, who knew each other passing well, that the mere circumstance of their meeting in a new place and in a new way should make them so awkward and constrained.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
-- But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me, and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious.'
-- 'I know,' continued the unhappy victim, 'how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concern-ing the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
-- But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the begin- ning of the month of August of the same year.
-- 'Another circumstance strengthened and confirmed these feelings.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister was not in a very bad temper when we presented ourselves in the kitchen, and Joe was encouraged by that unusual circumstance to tell her about the bright shilling.
-- I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.
-- We were at a loss to find a suitable attendant for her, until a circumstance happened conveniently to relieve us.
-- Chapter XVIII now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship life, which was varied beyond the limits of the village and the marshes, by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham.
-- As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may ap-pear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.
-- I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader's pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master's presence until I were sufficiently aired.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.
-- The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
-- 'And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of to-day, though in itself a trifling one, as if something had crept into Thomas's and Louisa's minds which is or rather, which is not I don't know that I can express myself better than by saying which has never been intended to be developed, and in which their reason has no part.'
-- It really is a most extraordinary circumstance that it appears as if I never was to hear the last of anything!'
-- Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remarked that my uncle, the Professor, had a strong tendency to resume his old impatie nt character, and I could not but make a note of this disagreeable circumstance in my journal.
-- CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY In order fully to understand the exclamation made by my uncle, and his allusions to these illustrious and learned men, it will be necessary to enter into certain explanations in regard to a circumstance of the highest importance to paleontology, or the science of fossil life, which had taken place a short time before our departure from the upper regions of the earth.
-- Another circumstance soon presented itself.
-- This inexplicable circumstance tormented me terribly.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After all, he was her husband: Wragby was her home: circumstance had done it.
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