essence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 本质， 实质，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is what that poor woman said to me, almost word for word; and such a deep, refined, truly religious thought it was a thought in which the whole essence of Christianity was ex-pressed in one flash that is, the recognition of God as our Father, and of God's joy in men as His own children, which is the chief idea of Christ.
-- The essence of religious feeling has nothing to do with reason, or atheism, or crime, or acts of any kind it has nothing to do with these things and never had.
-- At all events, no other has ever said or written a word about it; and in this fact is ex-pressed the whole essence of Russian liberalism of the sort which I am now considering.
-- Then my 'fact' consists in this, that RUS-SIAN liberalism is not an attack upon the existing order of things, but an attack upon the very essence of things them-selves indeed, on the things themselves; not an attack on the Russian order of things, but on Russia itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had once been noted at the Bar, that while Mr. Stryver was a glib man, and an unscrupulous, and a ready, and a bold, he had not that faculty of extracting the essence from a heap of statements, which is among the most striking and necessary of the advocate's accomplishments.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the small tables which were arranged about the room some thirty customers were drinking English beer, porter, gin, and brandy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose.
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：
-- and not only that!There's an attraction here here you have the end of the world, an anchorage, a quiet haven, the na-vel of the earth, the three fishes that are the foundation of the world, the essence of pancakes, of savoury fish- pies, of the evening samovar, of soft sighs and warm shawls, and hot stoves to sleep on as snug as though you were dead, and yet you're alive the advantages of both at once!Well, hang it, brother, what stuff I'm talking, it's bedtime!Listen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cameup to me one evening, when I was very low, to ask (she being thenafflicted with the disorder I have mentioned) if I could oblige herwith a little tincture of cardamums mixed with rhubarb, andflavored with seven drops of the essence of cloves, which was thebest remedy for her complaint;- or, if I had not such a thing by me,with a little brandy, which was the next best.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Freshness was exhaled in an essence from the varied contours of bank and hollow, as if the earth breathed maiden breath; and the pleased birds were hymning to the scene.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The essence of the jest consists in some catchword suggested by a political event, an incident in the police courts, a street song, or a bit of burlesque at some theatre, and forgotten in a month.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a pecu-liar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have whol-ly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hamper was not very large but tolerably satisfactory, for I knew that in concentrated essence of meat and biscuit there was enough to last six months.
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：
-- Because in his strong, thick male legs there was none of the alert sensitiveness and power of tenderness which is the very essence of youth, that which never dies, once it is there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's the essence of everything.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand however grand and wonderful, now quit it; and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages.
-- Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink?
-- Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale!Yet so it is.
-- What that was, whether essence of quicksilver, or a few drops of hartshorn, there is no telling.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is not general incivility the very essence of love?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the essence of sunshine and good-humour.
-- In the essence of these facts lie the first principles of morals.
-- That is, his feelings and his voice were coloured with that seeming repression and pathos which is the essence of eloquence.
-- She saw it through a mist of fancy--a pale, sombre half-light, which was the essence of poetic feeling.
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