practice是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 练习， 实践， 实际， 业务， 惯例， 习惯，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the first smarts I had.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my con-science would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
-- From this time my constant practice was, as soon as I rose, to perform that business in open air, at the full extent of my chain; and due care was taken every morning before company came, that the offensive matter should be carried off in wheel-barrows, by two servants ap-pointed for that purpose.
-- He took them out of their cases, and told us, that in his own country his practice was to shave his beard with 33one of these, and cut his meat with the other.
-- The learned among them con-fess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.
-- {2} Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory they were quite as good as ever; which may be observed to be the case at the present day with other cells that are not at all strong, and with other blind alleys that are stone-blind.
-- It's freedom, sir, it's freedom!I have had to-day's practice at home and abroad, on a march, and aboard ship, and I'll tell you this: I don't know that I have ever pursued it under such quiet circumstances as here this day.
-- This was the result of his day's anxiety, and this was the decision he put in practice when the day closed in.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It makes me cross, and my hands get so stiff, I can't practice well at all.'
-- He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.
-- 'What a piece of nonsense we have made!With practice we might do something quite clever.
-- She used to practice mounting, holding the reins, and sitting straight on an old saddle in a tree.
-- It is good practice for me, and with my sketchbook will give you a better idea of my tour than these scribbles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.'
-- 'I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,' said Lady Catherine; 'and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.'
-- Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences, she frequently sent them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I slept none that night; the farther I was from the oc-casion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the nature of such things, and especially to the usual practice of all creatures in fear; but I was so embarrassed with my own frightful ideas of the thing, that I formed nothing but dismal imaginations to myself, even though I was now a great way off.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My judgment," he returned, "is all on your side of the question; but I am afraid my practice is much more on your sister's.
-- She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by Willoughby, containing some of their favourite duets, and bearing on its outward leaf her own name in his hand-writing. That would not do. She shook her head, put the music aside, and after running over the keys for a minute, complained of feebleness in her fingers, and closed the instrument again; declaring however with firmness as she did so, that she should in future practice much.
-- YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage? Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was like every man who has had the advantage of practice and knows he has sympathy.
-- When Hurstwood returned he was not so elated as when he went away, and now she was obliged to drop practice and get dinner.
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