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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "No doubt; but I am not referring to that, but to one quality it has which is incomparable."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also; but if I have one quality upon earth it is common-sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
-- It is the first quality of a criminal investigator that he should see through a dis-guise.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard.
-- Of course I live now without any very practical ob-jects in life; but, being full of self-respect, in which quality the ordinary Russian is so deficient as a rule, and of activity, I am desirous, in a word, prince, of placing myself and my wife and children in a position of in fact, I want advice.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He spoke slowly, with a queer, hoarse quality in his voice.
-- Then, again, in his personal attendant there was a bizarre quality which had impressed me profoundly.
-- There was no mistake this time in the quality of the dim, broken sounds; no doubt at all of their source.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For my pretty Virland girl, abdicating her position as ward, took her place in the house in the Konigstrasse in the double quality of niece and wife.
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:
-- Underneath came a sort of ESCRITOIRE outfit: blotters, pens, ink-bottles, paper, envelopes, memorandum books: and then a perfect sewing-outfit, with three different sized scissors, thimbles, needles, silks and cottons, darning egg, all of the very best quality and perfectly finished.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He himself went about among the company, and took notice of individuals, and saw that the viands were of the quality he had ordered, and that all were served.
-- Pursuing the light so fortunately hit upon, and finding the concurrent testimony of the whole of Mrs General's acquaintance to be of the pathetic nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the county-widower to see Mrs General, in whom he found a lady of a quality superior to his highest expectations.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
-- This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
-- As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.
-- It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- One could see that the furniture was of that poor, hurriedly patched together quality sold by the instalment houses.
-- "No," answered Carrie, her voice assuming for the first time a penetrating quality which it had never known.
-- He was, by a combination of feelings and entanglements, almost deluded by that quality of voice and manner which, like a pathetic strain of music, seems ever a personal and intimate thing.
-- "But she is your wife," she said, fixing her whole attention upon the stilled actor, and softening the quality of her voice until it was again low and musical.
-- Her wonder was at once replaced by the more subtle quality of suspicion.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It was 'baker's bread' what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone.
-- He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and no-body ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warn't no more quality than a mudcat himself.
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