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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed.
-- I acknowledged that they were good, but they had a peculiar flavour, which I easily became accustomed to.
-- There exist guns, according to Fulton, perfected in England by Philip Coles and Burley, in France by Furcy, and in Italy by Landi, which are furnished with a peculiar system of closing, which can fire under these conditions.
-- I recognised magnificent rocks, hung with a tapestry of zoophytes of the most beautiful kind, and I was at first struck by the peculiar effect of this medium.
-- Besides other things the nets brought up, were several flabellariae and graceful polypi, that are peculiar to that part of the ocean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her shoes and stockings were of brownish grey, like the feathers on her hat, her hair was heavy, she drifted along with a peculiar fixity of the hips, a strange unwilling motion.
-- She took a peculiar delight in this conversation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt my heels and coat laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re establishing peace.
-- He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred; unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
-- Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
-- "The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied.
-- A peculiar feature, which presently attracted my attention, was the presence of certain circular wells, several, as it seemed to me, of a very great depth.
-- I turned with my heart in my mouth, and saw a queer little ape-like figure, its head held down in a peculiar manner, running across the sunlit space behind me.
-- And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light all reinforced the theory of an extreme sensitiveness of the retina.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even as he did so, he reeled, put his hand to his throat, stood swaying for a moment, and then, with a peculiar sound, fell from his whole height face foremost to the floor.
-- A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.
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