quality是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 质量， 品质， 特性，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The name of that prisoner was Damiens, and it was all done in open day, in the open streets of this city of Paris; and nothing was more noticed in the vast concourse that saw it done, than the crowd of la-dies of quality and fashion, who were full of eager attention to the last to the last, Jacques, prolonged until nightfall, when he had lost two legs and an arm, and still breathed!
-- These three young gentlemen, Mr. Stryver, exuding pa-tronage of the most offensive quality from every pore, had walked before him like three sheep to the quiet corner in Soho, and had offered as pupils to Lucie's husband: delicate-ly saying 'Halloa!here are three lumps of bread-andcheese towards your matrimonial picnic, Darnay!'
-- She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words.
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：
-- The great white snails which persons of quality in former times made fricassees of, ate, and said, 'Hem, hem!how delicious!'
-- 'And now the rain pours right down the stalk!You will see that it will be wet here!I am very happy to think that we have our good house, and the little one has his also!There is more done for us than for all other creatures, sure enough; but can you not see that we are folks of quality in the world?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know, of course," Levin added laughing, "you always want to do with as little and as poor quality as possible; but this year I'm not going to let you have things your own way.
-- But she had in the highest degree the quality that makes all defects forgotten: that quality was blood, the blood that tells, as the English expression has it.
-- But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one.
-- The complication was of this nature: Alexey Alexandrovitch's characteristic quality as a politician, that special individual qualification that every rising functionary possesses, the qualification that with his unflagging ambition, his reserve, his honesty, and with his self-confidence had made his career, was his contempt for red tape, his cutting down of correspondence, his direct contact, wherever possible, with the living fact, and his economy.
-- Up to this point she wrote rapidly and naturally, but the appeal to his generosity, a quality she did not recognize in him, and the necessity of winding up the letter with something touching, pulled her up.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recalled Gottlieb's sardonic face; he felt and feared his quality of dynamic hatred.
-- During the strain of study for examinations Martin was peculiarly vexing in regard to "laying in the best quality medical terms like the best quality sterilizers--not for use but to impress your patients."
-- (But one cannot convey the quality of it: the thin drawl, the sardonic amiability, the hiss of the S's, the D's turned into blunt and challenging T's.)
-- IV There was for Martin in these days a quality of satisfying delight; the zest of a fast hockey game, the serenity of the prairie, the bewilderment of great music, and a feeling of creation.
-- The difficulty in defining its quality is that no one has determined whether it is a very large village or a very small city.
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：
-- Av-dotya Romanovna was remarkably good looking; she was tall, strikingly well-proportioned, strong and self-reliant the latter quality was apparent in every gesture, though it did not in the least detract from the grace and softness of her movements.
-- There was vodka, rum and Lisbon wine, all of the poorest quality but in sufficient quantity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality onwhich both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand.
-- And yet I did not despise him the more for it, butthought it a redeeming quality in him, if he could be allowed anygrace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.
-- When I awoke,the recollection that Uriah was lying in the next room, sat heavy onme like a waking nightmare; and oppressed me with a leadendread, as if I had had some meaner quality of devil for a lodger.
-- He described it as an apartment of the mostsumptuous nature, and said that he had drank brown East Indiasherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.
-- We'll be content to let her be; we'll be content to think of her, faroff, as if she was underneath another sun and sky; we'll be contentto trust her to her husband,- to her little children, p'raps,- and bidethe time when all of us shall be alike in quality afore our God!'
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