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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is the common practice on all ships when a shark is captured, but Lady Glenarvan declined to be present at such a disgusting exploration, and withdrew to the cabin again.
-- Here is the book I use daily, to practice myself in the difficulties of the Spanish language.
-- The practice of tattooing, independently of the consideration it procures, has also a useful aspect.
-- "No doubt," replied Glenarvan, "and it is a very unwise practice to give firearms to savages!They turn them against the invaders, naturally enough.
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：
-- Obviously at the moment when Dr. Mortimer with-drew from the service of the hospital in order to start in practice for himself.
-- 'Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country.
-- 'But Dr. Mortimer has his practice to attend to, and his house is miles away from yours.
-- 'If matters came to a crisis I should endeavour to be present in person; but you can understand that, with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters, it is impossible for me to be absent from London for an indefinite time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess, however, that I should not have stayed here even if you had invited me, not for any particular reason, but because it is well, contrary to my practice and nature, somehow.'
-- Her usual practice in such cases as the present was to say nothing, but stare at him, without taking her eyes off his face for an instant.
-- It never appears in practice or deed.
-- He was informed that Nastasia used to play with Rogojin every evening, either at 'preference' or 'little fool,' or 'whist"; that this had been their practice since her last return from Pavlofsk; that she had taken to this amusement because she did not like to see Rogojin sitting silent and dull for whole evenings at a time; that the day after Nastasia had made a remark to this effect, Rogojin had whipped a pack of cards out of his pocket.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the death of this poor dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some ex-tent the practice of slumbering in the daytime in order to be on my guard at night.
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：
-- While the regular and trained hire-lings of the king marched with haughtiness to the right of the line, the less pretending colonists took their humbler position on its left, with a docility that long practice had rendered easy.
-- It would seem long practice had rendered this manual accompani-ment necessary; for it did not cease until the preposition which the poet had selected for the close of his verse had been duly delivered like a word of two syllables.
-- 'I agree with you, Alice, in thinking that such a front and eye were formed rather to intimidate than to deceive; but let us not practice a deception upon our-selves, by expecting any other exhibition of what we esteem virtue than according to the fashion of the savage.
-- 'I practice no such employment.'
-- The medal* of Magua will no longer be of tin, but of beaten gold; his horn will run over with powder; dollars will be as plenty in his pouch as pebbles on the shore of Horican; and the deer will lick his hand, for they will know it to be vain to fly from the rifle he will carry!As for myself, I know not how to exceed the gratitude of the Scotchman, but I yes, I will ' * It has long been a practice with the whites to concili-ate the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which are worn in the place of their own rude ornaments.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no experience, since my own practice has always been to deny everything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
-- Breakfast being at length over, Mr Codlin called the bill, and charging the ale to the company generally (a practice also savouring of misanthropy) divided the sum-total into two fair and equal parts, assigning one moiety to himself and friend, and the other to Nelly and her grandfather.
-- While Mr Brass by turns overwhelmed his clerk with compliments and inspected the ten-pound note, Miss Sally showed little emotion and that of no pleasurable kind, for as the tendency of her legal practice had been to fix her thoughts on small gains and gripings, and to whet and sharpen her natural wisdom, she was not a little disappointed that the single gentleman had obtained the lodgings at such an easy rate, arguing that when he was seen to have set his mind upon them, he should have been at the least charged double or treble the usual terms, and that, in exact proportion as he pressed forward, Mr Swiveller should have hung back.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had got it pretty good him and the duke begun to practice it together.
-- Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke made out of oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight the duke called himself Richard III.
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