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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Countess Catherine Ivanovna, however strange it might be, and how so little it agreed with her character, was a follower of that teaching which held that essence of Christianity consisted in a belief in redemption.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person's nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable com-monplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventu-ally, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine .
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man stopped in his work, and cleansing his spade with a piece of slate he had by him for the purpose and scraping off, in the process, the essence of Heaven knows how many Becky Morgans set himself to consider the subject.
-- How often am I to tell you that I brought him to you that I might always have my eye on him and know where he was and that I had a plot, a scheme, a little quiet piece of enjoyment afoot, of which the very cream and essence was, that this old man and grandchild (who have sunk underground I think) should be, while he and his precious friend believed them rich, in reality as poor as frozen rats?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gave Kemp the essence of the happenings at the "Jolly Cricketers," and the name of Marvel.
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：
-- The essence of that female, subterranean recklessness and mockery penetrated his blood.
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