peculiar是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的, 古怪的; 特有的, 独具的, 独特的，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I shall not anticipate the reader with further de-scriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
-- The latter part was altogeth-er framed in the style peculiar to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while she was carrying me to court.
-- To these were joined several holy persons, as part of that assembly, under the title of bishops, whose peculiar business is to take care of religion, and of those who instruct the people therein.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest peculiar to her; an interest gone astray like a banished creature, and hiding in solitary places.
-- She looked at him again, and smiled in her peculiar manner.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another peculiarity of his was, that he always stepped a yard at a time, clenched his fists as if he were going to hit you, and was, when in one of his peculiar humors, very far from a pleasant companion.
-- He made some of those peculiar jokes which belong exclusively to the learned.
-- If this singular torrent had not been checked in its descent by the peculiar shape of the flanks of the mountain, it would have swept into the sea, and would have formed new islands.
-- As we went along I could not help ruminating on the whole question, and asked myself if I did not lay too great a stress on these sudden and peculiar modifications of the earth's crust.
-- It was a slight but peculiar noise.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore the peculiar soft assurance of a girl like Con-stance Reid fascinated him.
-- So when he stared at Connie in his peculiar way, giving her his peculiar, precise information, she felt all the background of his mind filling up with mist, with nothingness.
-- She saw in him the peculiar tight rebuff against anyone of the lower classes who might be really climbing up, which she knew was characteristic of his breed.
-- Only she began to be afraid of the ghastly white tombstones, that peculiar loathsome whiteness of Carrara marble, detestable as false teeth, which stuck up on the hill-side, under Tevershall church, and which she saw with such grim painfulness from the park.
-- The upper classes fascinated her, appealing to her peculiar English passion for superiority.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Baptist answered with that peculiar back-handed shake of the right forefinger which is the most expressive negative in the Italian language.
-- repeated Mr Meagles, who appeared (though without any ill-nature) to be in that peculiar state of mind in which the last word spoken by anybody else is a new injury.
-- That it could deepen into anger or any extreme of defiance, and that it must change in that direction when it changed at all, would have been its peculiar impression upon most observers.
-- The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams.
-- With no earthly friend to help her, or so much as to see her, but the one so strangely assorted; with no knowledge even of the common daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred in a social condition, false even with a reference to the falsest condition outside the walls; drinking from infancy of a well whose waters had their own peculiar stain, their own unwholesome and unnatural taste; the Child of the Marshalsea began her womanly life.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girls will help you about them, and I will pay for the making up,' replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
-- It was astonishing what a peculiar and uncomfortable state of things was produced by the 'rest-ing and reveling' process.
-- thought Laurie, opening his sleepy eyes to take a good look, for there was something rather peculiar in the appearance of his neighbors.
-- Jo hardly heard her, for she and her mother were reading the note, which was written in a peculiar hand.
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