adaptation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 适应，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：
-- Mr. Micawber, Imust observe, in his adaptation of himself to a new state of society,had acquired a bold buccaneering air, not absolutely lawless, butdefensive and prompt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With this extemporary adaptation of a popular ballad to the distressing circumstances of his own case, Mr Swiveller folded up the parcel again, beat it very flat between the palms of his hands, thrust it into his breast, buttoned his coat over it, and folded his arms upon the whole.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And you and I can do that together...don't you think?...if we adapt our-selves to the necessities, and at the same time weave the adaptation together into a piece with our steadily-lived life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never said, I discovered this adaptation or invented that combination; but showed the whole thing as if the Divine artificer had made it, and he had happened to find it; so modest he was about it, such a pleasant touch of respect was mingled with his quiet admiration of it, and so calmly convinced he was that it was established on irrefragable laws.
-- A certain barbaric Power with valuable possessions on the map of the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, who could make the men and means their ingenuity perceived to be wanted out of the best materials they could find at hand; and who were as bold and fertile in the adaptation of such materials to their purpose, as in the conception of their purpose itself.
-- With this adaptation of the Refrain to himself, he stalked out of the room closely followed by Cavalletto, whom perhaps he had pressed into his service because he tolerably well knew it would not be easy to get rid of him.
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