improvement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 改进， 进步， 增进； 改进措施，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Tvery great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridic-ulous exaggeration.
-- But, a re-markable improvement came upon him as to this.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He believed neither in God nor the devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to keep up the church in his village.
-- Chapter 17 The hotel of the provincial town where Nikolay Levin was lying ill was one of those provincial hotels which are constructed on the newest model of modern improvements, with the best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but owing to the public that patronizes them, are with astounding rapidity transformed into filthy taverns with a pretension of modern improvement that only makes them worse than the old-fashioned, honestly filthy hotels.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even his own, perhaps too complacent, conscious-ness of the agreeable improvement in his appearance might have been forgiven in such circumstances, seeing that Pyotr Petrovitch had taken up the r脙麓le of fianc脙漏.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'There is a great improvement here, ma'am?'
-- From this I rightlyconjectured that no improvement had taken place since my lastvisit in the state of Mrs. Gummidge's spirits.
-- The legend added that the onlyperson who did not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, 227when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a littlesecond-hand shop of no very good repute, where such things weretaken in exchange for gin, was more than once observed to handlethem approvingly, as if admiring some curious novelty in thepattern, and considering them an improvement on his own.
-- It being nowpretty late, we took our candles and went upstairs, where weparted with friendly heartiness at his door, and where I found mynew room a great improvement on my old one, it not being at allmusty, and having an immense four-post bedstead in it, which wasquite a little landed estate.
-- Mr. Spenlow repliedthat he would particularly advise me to dismiss that idea from mymind, as not being worthy of my gentlemanly character; but thathe would be glad to hear from me of what improvement I thought 443the Commons susceptible?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His per-ception of the striking improvement of Harriet's manner, since her introduction at Hartfield, was not one of the least agreeable proofs of his growing attachment.
-- There was no want of likeness, she had been fortunate in the attitude, and as she meant to throw in a little improvement to the figure, to give a little more height, and considerably more elegance, she had great confidence of its being in ev-ery way a pretty drawing at last, and of its filling its destined place with credit to them both a standing memorial of the beauty of one, the skill of the other, and the friendship of both; with as many other agreeable associations as Mr. El-ton's very promising attachment was likely to add.
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
-- I think it admirable; and, as far as I can answer for myself, shall be most happy It seems the only improvement that could be.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The military man turned and surveyed the interior of the room, to assist his ideas of improvement in this direction.
-- "That improvement will come wi' time," said Jan, twirling his eye.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A mind of moderate capacity which closely pur-sues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, im-proved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instru-ments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
-- I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts 53would at least lay the foundations of future success.
-- How pleased you would be to re- 67mark the improvement of our Ernest!He is now sixteen and full of activity and spirit.
-- He soon perceived that I disliked the subject, but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty and changed the subject from my improvement to the science itself, with a desire, as I evidently saw, of drawing me out.
-- It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so that among us, it would be little esteemed.
-- By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair: that as for himself, being not of an enterpris-ing spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth's men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.'
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