talent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 才能， 天资； 人才，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：
-- 'Why, this is simply beautiful; look at that, Gania, there's real talent there!'
-- There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fair-ly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be 'not stupid,' kind-hearted, and yet to have no talent at all, no originality, not a single idea of one's own to be, in fact, 'just like everyone else.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the second prize he offered a large ox, well fat-tened, while for the last there was to be half a talent of gold.
-- He said this to pay a compliment to the son of Peleus, and Achilles answered, 'Antilochus, you shall not have praised me to no purpose; I shall give you an additional half talent of gold.'
-- He then gave the half talent to Antilochus, who re-ceived it gladly.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
-- Now and then she invited members of it to her house if they showed an appreciation of her talent and entertained with proper lavishness.
-- Mrs. Strickland continued:"After all, if he had any talent I should be the first to encourage it.
-- "I'm interested in the young men, but voyons, you yourself, Monsieur Stroeve, you don't think there's any talent there."
-- "I give you my word of honour, there's no one painting to-day in whose talent I am more convinced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had been remarkable, when a tender prattler for an uncommon talent in counterfeiting the walk and manner of a bailiff: in which character she had learned to tap her little playfellows on the shoulder, and to carry them off to imaginary sponging-houses, with a correctness of imitation which was the surprise and delight of all who witnessed her performances, and which was only to be exceeded by her exquisite manner of putting an execution into her doll's house, and taking an exact inventory of the chairs and tables.
-- It is but bare justice to Mr Swiveller to say, that, although the expenses of her education kept him in straitened circumstances for half a dozen years, he never slackened in his zeal, and always held himself sufficiently repaid by the accounts he heard (with great gravity) of her advancement, on his monthly visits to the governess, who looked upon him as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious talent in quotation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course, her talent must be perfected; it cannot be neglected.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boys are trying enough to human patience, goodness knows, but girls are infinitely more so, especially to nervous gentlemen with tyrannical tempers and no more talent for teaching than Dr. Blimber.
-- There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the con-sciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.'
-- I should think you had taste and talent for it,' replied Miss Kate graciously.
-- So did mine, but I proved to her that I had talent by tak-ing a few lessons privately, and then she was quite willing I should go on.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You judge very properly,' said Mr. Bennet, 'and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.
-- 'I certainly have not the talent which some people pos-sess,' said Darcy, 'of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was necessary to the happiness of both; for however dissimilar in temper and outward behaviour, they strongly resembled each other in that total want of talent and taste which confined their employments, unconnected with such as society produced, within a very narrow compass.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is this bump which gives him his great talent of dancing and using his feet as nimbly as a human being.
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