unusual是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 不平常的， 与众不同的，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：
-- There was no mistaking the characteristic features of his race; the crisped hair, the nearly black skin, the flattened nose, the thick lips, the unusual length of the arms, immediately classed him among the aborigines of the interior.
-- It is unusual to meet with such a tumultuous river at this time of the year, and it is a fatality against which I am powerless."
-- About half-past eleven, John Mangles and Wilson, who stayed on deck throughout the gale, were suddenly struck by an unusual noise.
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：
-- No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was in-deed his friend and patient who lay before him it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rogojin, too, seemed to have taken up the conversation with unusual alacrity it appeared that he was still in a considerable state of excitement, if not abso-lutely feverish, and was in real need of someone to talk to for the mere sake of talking, as safety-valve to his agitation.
-- Totski, who was living abroad at this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.
-- She suddenly displayed unusual decision of character; and without wast-ing time in thought, she left her country home and came up to St. Petersburg, straight to Totski's house, all alone.
-- Some most unusual visitor must have arrived.
-- The two maid-servants were both peeping in, frightened and amazed at this unusual and disorderly scene.
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 deepest sounds of the retiring and invisible column had ceased to be borne on the breeze to the listeners, and the latest straggler had already disappeared in pursuit; but there still remained the signs of another departure, before a log cabin of unusual size and accommodations, in front of which those sentinels paced their rounds, who were known to guard the person of the English general.
-- At a respectful distance from this unusual show, were gathered divers groups of curious idlers; some admiring the blood and bone of the high-mettled military charger, and others gazing at the preparations, with the dull wonder of vulgar curiosity.
-- Although his alarming com-munication was not received without much secret terror by the listeners, his earnest and impressive manner, aided per-haps by the nature of the danger, succeeded in bracing their nerves to undergo some unlooked-for and unusual trial.
-- It was followed by a stillness apparently as deep as if the waters had been checked in their furious progress, at such a horrid and unusual interruption.
-- David had contend-ed, and the novelty of the circumstance held him silent, in deliberation on the propriety of the unusual occurrence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Quilp looked tremblingly in her spouse's face to know what this unusual courtesy might portend, and obedient to the summons she saw in his gesture, followed him into the next room.
-- 'I couldn't do it really,' said Quilp with unusual politeness, 'though I tell you what and this is a circumstance worth bearing in mind as showing how the sharpest among us may be taken in sometimes I was so deceived by the penurious way in which you lived, alone with Nelly ''All done to save money for tempting fortune, and to make her triumph greater,' cried the old man.
-- Nor was this the only remarkable circumstance about these dogs, for each of them wore a kind of little coat of some gaudy colour trimmed with tarnished spangles, and one of them had a cap upon his head, tied very carefully under his chin, which had fallen down upon his nose and completely obscured one eye; add to this, that the gaudy coats were all wet through and discoloured with rain, and that the wearers were splashed and dirty, and some idea may be formed of the unusual appearance of these new visitors to the Jolly Sandboys.
-- And being careful not to awaken any of the little household, who were yet resting from their unusual fatigues, Kit left his money on the chimney-piece, with an inscription in chalk calling his mother's attention to the circumstance, and informing her that it came from her dutiful son; and went his way, with a heart something heavier than his pockets, but free from any very great oppression notwithstanding.
-- These unusual answers might naturally have provoked some more inquiries.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something so unusual in the expression of her face--something so terrible and piteous in the meaning of her words, in that smile, that quick glance which she cast over the court-room--that the justiciary hung his head, and for a moment there was perfect silence.
-- "But your request is so unusual and beside all customary forms----" "Well, can I get the permission?"
-- The sounds of a tuneless piano again assailed his ears, but this time it was not a rhapsody that was played, but a study by Clementi, and, as before, with unusual force, precision and rapidity.
-- It was really a huge structure, built in a complex, unusual style.
-- And to his imagination appeared with unusual vividness the beautiful face of the second dead convict, with a smile on his lips, the forbidding expression of his forehead, and the small, strong ear under the shaved, bluish scalp.
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