variance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 分歧， 不一致，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thank you:- whether people, who are like each other in theirmoral constitution, are in greater danger than people not socircumstanced, supposing any serious cause of variance to arisebetween them, of being divided angrily and deeply?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet there was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply, and consciousness of his power to render it disagreeable or distressing, which was strongly at variance with this impulse and restrained it more effectually than she could possibly have done by any efforts of her own.
-- It may be necessary to observe, lest there should appear any incongruity in the close of this soliloquy, that Mr Swiveller did not wind up with a cheerful hilarious laugh, which would have been undoubtedly at variance with his solemn reflections, but that, being in a theatrical mood, he merely achieved that performance which is designated in melodramas 'laughing like a fiend,' for it seems that your fiends always laugh in syllables, and always in three syllables, never more nor less, which is a remarkable property in such gentry, and one worthy of remembrance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance.
-- In this preposterous attitude, unspeakably at variance with his anxious mind, Clennam descended to the basement of the house; finding that wherever it became darker than elsewhere, Flora became heavier, and that when the house was lightest she was too.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life,distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
-- His severe black suit, with fineruffled shirt and trousers smartly strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, forhe was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a body that was powerful and latently dangerous in its lazy grace.
-- The bright new sheen of the gray coat was sadly at variance withthe worn and patched butternut trousers and the scarred boots, but if he had been clothed in silver armor he could nothave looked more the shining knight to her.
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