importance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 重要， 重要性，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spir-it should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some hidden 84 Sons and Loverspurpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He, therefore, made haste to say: 'It is of the utmost importance to me (you know, Citizen, 359even better than I, of how much importance), that I should be able to communicate to Mr. Lorry of Tellson's Bank, an English gentleman who is now in Paris, the simple fact, without comment, that I have been thrown into the prison of La Force.
-- It was not merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach, but it was of the highest importance that the time occupied in examining it and its passengers, should be reduced to the utmost; since their escape might depend on the saving of only a few seconds here and there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Sergey Ivanovitch, who was greatly interested in these local boards and attached great importance to them.
-- A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life!And how aloof and remote from him she had become now!
-- Two or three people, your husband among them, understand all the importance of the thing, but the others simply drag it down.
-- To speak of it would be to attach importance to what has no importance."
-- But she had heard of late that her son had refused a position offered him of great importance to his career, simply in order to remain in the regiment, where he could be constantly seeing Madame Karenina.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was ready for him with strong coffee, waiting on him silently, looking at him proudly, while he waved his arms, babbling: "Gottlieb better not talk any more about the importance of new observations!The X Principle may not just apply to staph.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as Porfiry Petrovitch heard that his visitor had a little matter of business with him, he begged him to sit down on the sofa and sat down himself on the other end, waiting for him to explain his business, with that careful and over-serious attention which is at once oppressive and embarrassing, especially to a stranger, and especially if what you are discussing is in your opinion of far too little importance for such exceptional solemnity.
-- Although I said so emphatically that I would not speak openly in your brother's presence, nev-ertheless, I intend now to ask your honoured mother for a necessary explanation on a point of great importance close-ly affecting my dignity.
-- Amalia Ivanovna, too, suddenly acquired extraordinary importance in Katerina Ivanovna's eyes and was treated by her with extraordinary respect, probably only because Amalia Ivanovna had thrown herself heart and soul into the preparations.
-- He was preoccupied with some-thing of importance and was frowning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Iremember that this importance was a kind of satisfaction to me, 122when I walked in the playground that afternoon while the boyswere in school.
-- said Miss Murdstone, still keeping her eye on thepickles; 'it is of more importance than anything else- it is ofparamount importance- that my brother should not be disturbed ormade uncomfortable.
-- Misty ideas of being ayoung man at my own disposal, of the importance attaching to ayoung man at his own disposal, of the wonderful things to be seenand done by that magnificent animal and the wonderful effects hecould not fail to make upon society, lured me away.
-- 279'It was not a fit school generally for my son,' said she; 'far from it;but there were particular circumstances to be considered at thetime, of more importance even than that selection.
-- I knew my aunt sufficiently well toknow that she had something of importance on her mind, and thatthere was far more matter in this arrival than a stranger might havesupposed.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclu-sion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, be-sides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.
-- Harriet said, 'very true,' and she 'would not think about it;' but still she talked of it still she could talk of nothing else; and Emma, at last, in order to put the Martins out of her head, was obliged to hurry on the news, which she had meant to give with so much tender caution; hardly know-ing herself whether to rejoice or be angry, ashamed or only amused, at such a state of mind in poor Harriet such a conclusion of Mr. Elton's importance with her!
-- She knew the importance of it, and said every thing in her power to do it away.
-- The young ladies of High-bury might have walked again in safety before their panic began, and the whole history dwindled soon into a matter 408 Emmaof little importance but to Emma and her nephews: in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
-- The contrast between Mrs. Churchill's importance in the world, and Jane Fairfax's, struck her; one was every thing, the other nothing and she sat musing on the difference of woman's destiny, and quite unconscious on what her eyes were fixed, till roused by Miss Bates's saying, 'Aye, I see what you are thinking of, the pianoforte.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The maltster cleared his throat in an exaggerated form for emphasis, and elongating his gaze to the remotest point of the ashpit, said, in the slow speech justifiable when the importance of a subject is so generally felt that any mannerism must be tolerated in getting at it, "Well, I don't mind the year I were born in, but perhaps I can reckon up the places I've lived at, and so get it that way.
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