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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared that the general had known Pavlicheff; but why the latter had taken an interest in the prince, that young gentleman could not explain; probably by virtue of the old friendship with his father, he thought.
-- On the contrary, I am listening most attentively, and am anxious to guess-" 'Prince, I wish to place myself in a respectable position I wish to esteem myself and to ' 'My dear sir, a man of such noble aspirations is worthy of all esteem by virtue of those aspirations alone.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My fellow-crea-tures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I agree with you, Alice, in thinking that such a front and eye were formed rather to intimidate than to deceive; but let us not practice a deception upon our-selves, by expecting any other exhibition of what we esteem virtue than according to the fashion of the savage.
-- Long and habitual deference to the mandates of his supe-riors had taught the scout the virtue of obedience.
-- Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had re-course to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas.
-- When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high enco-mium on the virtue of wisdom.
-- re-turned the chief, regarding Heyward with that sort of curious interest which seems inseparable from man, when first beholding one of his fellows to whom merit or accident, virtue or crime, has given notoriety.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tell you,' returned the other with an increased earnestness, which, whether it were real or assumed, had the same effect on his companion, 'that he lives for her, that his whole energies and thoughts are bound up in her, that he would no more disinherit her for an act of disobedience than he would take me into his favour again for any act of obedience or virtue that I could possibly be guilty of.
-- The old man's illness had not lasted many days when he took formal possession of the premises and all upon them, in virtue of certain legal powers to that effect, which few understood and none presumed to call in question.
-- Mrs Jarley was not slow to express her admiration at this happy result, and carried her young friend and pupil to inspect the remaining arrangements within doors, by virtue of which the passage had been already converted into a grove of green-baize hung with the inscription she had already seen (Mr Slum's productions), and a highly ornamented table placed at the upper end for Mrs Jarley herself, at which she was to preside and take the money, in company with his Majesty King George the Third, Mr Grimaldi as clown, Mary Queen of Scots, an anonymous gentleman of the Quaker persuasion, and Mr Pitt holding in his hand a correct model of the bill for the imposition of the window duty.
-- On the contrary, the other three knaves and gamesters by their trade while intent upon their game, were yet as cool and quiet as if every virtue had been centered in their breasts.
-- Having, as it were, taken formal possession of his clerkship in virtue of these proceedings, he opened the window and leaned negligently out of it until a beer-boy happened to pass, whom he commanded to set down his tray and to serve him with a pint of mild porter, which he drank upon the spot and promptly paid for, with the view of breaking ground for a system of future credit and opening a correspondence tending thereto, without loss of time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought I would make a virtue of necessity, and see the sunrise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition.
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