modified是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 改良的， 改进的，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：
-- In short, the most trifling acts of the Maories are directed and modified by this singular custom, the deity is brought into constant contact with their daily life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At a simple gesture, the pilot modified the course of the Nautilus every instant.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All her arrangements had to be modified because they could not be carried out, and they were modified by Korney, Alexey Alexandrovitch's valet, who, though no one was aware of the fact, now managed Karenin's household, and quietly and discreetly reported to his master while he was dressing all it was necessary for him to know.
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：
-- The natural taste and true ear of David governed and modified the sounds to suit the confined cavern, every crevice and cranny of which was filled with the thrilling notes of their flexible voices.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night had closed in, and the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest, again became extremely cold.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock-frock, by the breadth of a hair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To whom I imparted how my uncle had come in the night and was then asleep, and how the breakfast preparations were to be modified accordingly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Louisa,' and his hand rested on her hair again, 'I have been absent from here, my dear, a good deal of late; and though your sister's training has been pursued according to the system,' he appeared to come to that word with great reluctance always, 'it has necessarily been modified by daily associations begun, in her case, at an early age.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My surprise was slightly modified when I knew that this tranquil and solemn personage was only a hunter of the eider duck, the down of which is, after all, the greatest source of the Icelanders' wealth.
-- Until now, all the peculiar conditions of refractory rocks, of electricity, of magnetism, had modified the general laws of nature, and had created for us a moderate temperature; for the theory of the central fire, remained, in my eyes, the only explainable one.
-- An hour passed away, and except that there was a slight increase in the temperature no incident modified the situation.
-- But the presence of Hans and many stray scraps of information by degrees modified public opinion.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.
-- But, as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another; and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from another phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.
-- But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect.
-- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had intended to hurry out to Ogden Place and surprise Carrie, but now he fell into an interesting conversation and soon modified his original intention.
-- "Well, you get it then," he said grimly, though in a modified tone of voice.
-- "Explain," said Mr. Bamberger, giving a modified imitation.
-- She was flushing scarlet to the roots of her hair, but Drouet did not catch the full hue of her face, owing to the modified light of the room.
-- Hurstwood naturally abandoned his show of fine manners with her and modified his attitude to one of easy familiarity.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark TwainEXPLANATORY N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Mis-Isouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary 'Pike County' dialect; and four modified varieties of this last.
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