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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma, on reaching home, called the housekeeper di-rectly, to an examination of her stores; and some arrowroot 478 Emmaof very superior quality was speedily despatched to Miss Bates with a most friendly note.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- uttered behind him, in a piping note of more treble quality than that in which the exclamation usually embodies itself when shouted across a field.
-- In substance it had originally been hair, but long contact with sheep seemed to be turning it by degrees into wool of a poor quality and staple.
-- Before any further remark had been added a shade darkened the door, and Boldwood entered the malthouse, bestowing upon each a nod of a quality between friendliness and condescension.
-- "'Tis a very noble quality in ye."
-- It was eventually known that Gabriel, though paid a fixed wage by Bathsheba independent of the fluctuations of agricultural profits, had made an engagement with Boldwood by which Oak was to receive a share of the receipts a small share certainly, yet it was money of a higher quality than mere wages, and capable of expansion in a way that wages were not.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Nothing whatever, madame," he answered; "on the contrary, it is made of the best quality of corn; flour from Etampes."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
-- Frankenstein is modest, an excellent quality in a young man.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a neighborhood where everyone said exactly what he thought as soon as he thought it, Ashley's quality ofreserve was exasperating.
-- There was a steely quality under herstately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather thanadmit it.
-- She knew itwas beneath the dignity of quality white folks to pay the slightest attention to what a darky said when she was justgrumbling to herself.
-- Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtookCharles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.
-- Scarlett was not sure what an aeon was, but there was no mistaking the baiting quality of his voice, so she saidnothing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had at last done and had appointed to send the articles to Mr. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it.
-- They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.
-- But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation the Boar could have given me, and the quality of my dreams was about the same as in the best bedroom.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired I would give him an hours audience; which I readily con-sented to, on account of his quality and personal merits, as well as of the many good offices he had done me during my solicitations at court.
-- It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make 62 Gulliver's Travelswater within the precincts of the palace.
-- Whoever can there bring suf-ficient proof, that he has strictly observed the laws of his 66 Gulliver's Travelscountry for seventy-three moons, has a claim to certain privileges, according to his quality or condition of life, with a proportionable sum of money out of a fund appropriated for that use: he likewise acquires the title of snilpall, or le-gal, which is added to his name, but does not descend to his posterity.
-- The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, and handicrafts, are managed propor-tionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas those of persons of quality continue in their exercises till fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us: but the con-70 Gulliver's Travelsfinement is gradually lessened for the last three years.
-- In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by or-derly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am far from feeling convinced now, however differently I might have felt only this time yesterday, that I am fit for the trust you repose in me; that I know how to respond to the appeal you have come home to make to me; that I have the right instinct supposing it for the moment to be some quality of that nature how to help you, and to set you right, my child.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor possessed this quality to perfection.
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