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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of becoming one among my fellows.
-- I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise with-in me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I ap-plied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
-- But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
-- Taking the table to represent the path of virtue, I am justified in stating that during the whole time of the Aged's reading, Wemmick's arm was straying from the path of virtue and being recalled to it by Miss Skiffins.
-- "Now," said Pumblechook, and all this with a most exasperating air of saying in the cause of virtue what was perfectly convincing and conclusive, "I will tell you what to say to Joseph.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their na-tures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.
-- He allowed your crimes to be great, but that still there was room for mercy, the most com-mendable virtue in a prince, and for which his majesty was so justly celebrated.
-- because this appeared such an exalted strain of virtue and public spirit, that his majesty seemed to doubt it might possibly not be always sincere.'
-- And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all man-kind.
-- For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) as-sign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the min-eral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
-- 'My friends,' said he, 'by virtue o' my office as your president, I askes o' our friend Slackbridge, who may be a little over hetter in this business, to take his seat, whiles this man Stephen Blackpool is heern.
-- The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy never mind the name is, that we know it is all meaningless, and say so; while they know it equally and will never say so.'
-- In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a certain period, the earth consisted only of an elastic crust, liable to alternative upward and downward movements in virtue of the law of attraction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.
-- Nobody could have said where the wisdom was, or where the virtue was, or where the benignity was; but they all seemed to be somewhere about him.
-- And this saved him still from the whimpering weakness and cruel selfishness of holding that because such a happiness or such a virtue had not come into his little path, or worked well for him, therefore it was not in the great scheme, but was reducible, when found in appearance, to the basest elements.
-- He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to Like.
-- Mr Pancks rose into new distinction in virtue of being specially remembered in the letter.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Amy went on with her work, in the proud consciousness of virtue and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath.
-- Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume her-self on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.
-- asked Fred, by way of test-ing in her the virtue he lacked himself.
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