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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Beyond these general characters their heads had little in common; each preserved the quality of its particular species: the human mark distorted but did not hide the leopard, the ox, or the sow, or other animal or animals, from which the creature had been moulded.
-- The quality of the sounds changed so greatly that it arrested my attention.
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:
-- 'If there was one of the imps yelling this morning, there were for-ty!and they know our number and quality too well to give up the chase so soon.
-- The remaining three were white, though clad in vestments adapted, both in quality and color, to their present hazardous pursuit that of hanging on the skirts of a retiring army in the wilderness.
-- No quality that was likely to command the sym-pathy of an Indian escaped his notice.
-- He painted the quality as forming the great point of difference between the beaver and other brutes; between the brutes and men; and, final-ly, between the Hurons, in particular, and the rest of the human race.
-- He merely cast an occasional look at the number and quality of the warriors, who, from time to time, signified their readiness to accompany Uncas to the field.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- "Oh, I think that's awfully subtle," said the Colonel, putting into the word all the contempt he felt for a quality so alien to the traditions of his calling.
-- That was perhaps the cause of the peculiar quality of Dirk's love for his wife.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The fire was lighted, and Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.
-- Native lodestones consist of this ore, and iron of the first quality is made in Europe from that with which Sweden and Norway are so abundantly supplied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
-- Mr Abel seemed rather astonished to hear of the quality of his guide, and took a chair by the bedside.
-- In another minute, the carriage was out of sight; and Mr Chuckster remained alone on the spot where it had lately been, with a vision of Kit standing up in the rumble waving his hand to Barbara, and of Barbara in the full light and lustre of his eyes his eyes Chuckster's Chuckster the successful on whom ladies of quality had looked with favour from phaetons in the parks on Sundays waving hers to Kit!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- However, in favor of marrying Missy in particular (Korchagin's name was Maria, but, as usual in families of the higher classes, she received a nickname) there was, first, the fact that she came of good stock, and was in everything, from her dress to her manner of speaking, walking and laughing, distinguished not by any exceptional qualities, but by "good breeding"--he knew no other expression for the quality which he prized very highly.
-- Vladimir Vasilievitch Wolf was really un homme tr脙篓s comme il faut, and this quality he placed above all else; from the height of it he looked upon all other people, and could not help valuing this quality, because, thanks to it, he had gained a brilliant career--the same career he strove for; that is to say, through marriage he obtained a fortune, which brought him a yearly income of eighteen thousand rubles, and by his own efforts he obtained a senatorship.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks a something inhuman and malign.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was a quality in his voice, amiable but dominant, that cowed the others, who were all younger than he.
-- Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge?
-- In the spirit, I am as separate as one star is from another, as different in quality and quantity.
-- There was his wonderful, desirable life-rapidity, the rare quality of an utterly desirable man: and there was at the same time this ridiculous, mean effacement into a Salvator Mundi and a Sunday-school teacher, a prig of the stiffest type.
-- "And it's not that it's the quality of the whole thing paterfamilias laughing and thinking it sport, and throwing the ha'pennies, and materfamilias spreading her fat little knees and eating, continually eating " replied Gudrun.
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