virtue是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 德行， 美德； 贞操； 优点； 功效， 效力，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, Virtue, as had been observed by the poets (in many pas-sages which he well knew the jury would have, word for word, at the tips of their tongues; whereat the jury's coun-tenances displayed a guilty consciousness that they knew nothing about the passages), was in a manner contagious; more especially the bright virtue known as patriotism, or love of country.
-- They have had their shameful rights, these Nobles, in the modesty and virtue of our sis-ters, many years, but we have had good girls among us.
-- I am accidentally possessed of a power over one of the keepers here, and in virtue of it I stand before you.
-- If she had ever had the virtue in her, it had quite gone out of her.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Andersen's Fairy Tales And now the Emperor, with all the grandees of his court, came to the weavers; and the rogues raised their arms, as if in the act of holding something up, saying, 'Here are your Majesty's trousers!Here is the scarf!Here is the mantle!The whole suit is as light as a cobweb; one might fancy one has nothing at all on, when dressed in it; that, however, is the great virtue of this delicate cloth.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The principal qualities in Stepan Arkadyevitch which had gained him this universal respect in the service consisted, in the first place, of his extreme indulgence for others, founded on a consciousness of his own shortcomings; secondly, of his perfect liberalism--not the liberalism he read of in the papers, but the liberalism that was in his blood, in virtue of which he treated all men perfectly equally and exactly the same, whatever their fortune or calling might be; and thirdly--the most important point--his complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, in consequence of which he was never carried away, and never made mistakes.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch, like Lidia Ivanovna indeed, and others who shared their views, was completely devoid of vividness of imagination, that spiritual faculty in virtue of which the conceptions evoked by the imagination become so vivid that they must needs be in harmony with other conceptions, and with actual fact.
-- But this temptation did not last long, and soon there was reestablished once more in Alexey Alexandrovitch's soul the peace and the elevation by virtue of which he could forget what he did not want to remember.
-- Now it was clear to him that he could only live by virtue of the beliefs in which he had been brought up.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He worked himself up to a state of virtue in which it was agreeably clear to him that he must throw Madeline over, entirely as a rebuke.
-- For don't forget, gentlemen, and this is my last message to you, the man worth while is not merely the man who takes things with a smile but also the man who's trained in philosophy, PRACTICAL philosophy, so that instead of day-dreaming and spending all his time talking about 'ethics,' splendid though they are, and 'charity,' glorious virtue though that be, yet he never forgets that unfortunately the world judges a man by the amount of good hard cash he can lay away.
-- It did not occur to him that their abstention from love began tonight; it did not come to him till, holding out his hands to Leora, smiling with virtue at having determined to be prudent, he heard Mr. Tozer cackling, "Ory, you go on up to bed now--in your own room!"
-- There were fine wrinkles beside his eyes, he rolled Bull Durham cigarettes constantly, and his opinion of man's honor and woman's virtue was but low.
-- They modernized their rustic dancing; they learned to play bridge, rather badly, and tennis rather well; and Martin, not by virtue and heroism but merely by habit, got out of the way of resenting the chirp of small talk.
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：
-- 'Here you have modesty, brother, silence, bashfulness, a savage virtue 芒聙娄 and yet she's sighing and melting like wax, simply melting!Save me from her, by all that's unholy!She's most prepossessing 芒聙娄 I'll repay you, I'll do anything芒聙娄.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I used to breakfast withthem now, in virtue of some arrangement, of which I haveforgotten the details.
-- Peggotty then retired to her lodging, and Mr.Spenlow and I went into Court, where we had a divorce suitcoming on, under an ingenious little statute (repealed now, Ibelieve, but in virtue of which I have seen several marriagesannulled), of which the merits were these.
-- Thatperhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all,whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to thisplace, all needful accommodation, should be an enormoussinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, aclergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a stall in a cathedral, and whatnot), while the public was put to the inconvenience of which wehad a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, andwhich we knew to be quite monstrous.
-- Traddles and I laying our heads togetherapart, while Mr. Dick anxiously watched us from his chair, weconcocted a scheme in virtue of which we got him to work nextday, with triumphant success.
-- In fact, my dear Copperfield, Ihave entered into arrangements, by virtue of which I standpledged and contracted to our friend, Heep, to assist and serve himin the capacity of- and to be- his confidential clerk.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She understood their ways, could allow for their ignorance and their temptations, had no romantic expectations of extraordinary virtue from those for whom education had done so little; entered into their troubles with ready sympathy, and always gave her assistance with as much intelligence as good-will.
-- Mr. Weston, on his side, added a virtue to the account which must have some weight.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The maltster, being now pacified, was even generous enough to voluntarily disparage in a slight degree the virtue of having lived a great many years, by mentioning that the cup they were drinking out of was three years older than he.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous ge-nius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans of their subsequent degenerating of the decline of that mighty empire, of chiv-alry, Christianity, and kings.
扩展阅读：