general是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 一般的， 普通的； 总的， 大体的n. 将军，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!'
-- Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.
-- Mrs. Gradgrind was not a scientific character, and usually dismissed her children to their studies with this general injunction to choose their pursuit.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general impression upon my mind was sadness.
-- "My boy, with such clothing, with such boots, and such general equipment," said my unc le, in a state of rapturous delight, "we may hope to travel far."
-- The chambers were four in number--the kitchen, the workshop, where the weaving was carried on, the general sleeping chamber of the family, and the best room, to which strangers were especially invited.
-- As soon as everybody was sufficiently warm, a general dispersion took place, all retiring to their respective couches.
-- Its direction, however, was in general towards the southwest.
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：
-- So there you are!But don't take me as a general example, prob-ably I'm just a special case: one of the men who like women, but don't love women, and even hate them if they force me into a pretence of love, or an entangled appearance.
-- It was all part of the general catas-trophe.
-- Let man slide down to general idiocy in the emotional and 'human' mind, Clifford did not care.
-- He went down to the pit day after day, he studied, he put the general manager, and the overhead manager, and the underground manager, and the engineers through a mill they had never dreamed of.
-- Mr Linley was the general manager of the collieries, an elderly man from the north, with not quite enough punch to suit Clifford; not up to post-war conditions, nor post-war colliers either, with their 'ca' canny' creed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my endeavours.
-- It was done, and with a general shaking of hands the assembly broke up for ever.
-- In part relieved by the intensity of this threat, and in part (monstrous as the fact is) by a general impression that it was in some sort a religious proceeding, she handed back the book to the old man, and was silent.
-- In the debtor's confined chamber, Mrs Bangham, charwoman and messenger, who was not a prisoner (though she had been once), but was the popular medium of communication with the outer world, had volunteered her services as fly-catcher and general attendant.
-- But, to the last, the irresolute hand of old would remain in the pocket into which he had slipped the money during two or three turns about the yard, lest the transaction should be too conspicuous to the general body of collegians.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter.
-- She stayed till Hannah came to take her home to dinner, but she had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a general state of beatitude.
-- Jo's funny hat deserved a vote of thanks, for it was of general utility.
-- In ten minutes Jo came running downstairs with a very red face and the general appearance of a person who had just passed through a trying ordeal of some sort.
-- As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, passengers get sea-sick grow quarrelsome don't sleep of nights do not enjoy themselves much, as a general thing; no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
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