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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XII ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET ALOFTNOTHING of importance had occurred hitherto in the passage through Chili; but all the obstacles and difficulties incident to a mountain journey were about to crowd on the travelers now.
-- No incident of any importance occurred that night or the following day.
-- No incident occurred of any importance during the 2d and 3d of November, and in the evening they reached the boundary of the Pampas, and camped for the night on the frontiers of the province of Buenos Ayres.
-- He went on to mention several other trifling incidents, without attaching the importance to them that John Mangles did, and when he stopped Mary Grant said, in her soft voice: "Oh, go on, Mr. Ayrton, tell us more about our father."
-- But Paddy understood the importance Glenarvan attached to the presence of the man, and submitted.
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：
-- It is well that this is so, for it is obvious-ly of the utmost importance that Sir Charles's heir should settle at the Hall and continue the good work which has been so sadly interrupted.
-- I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his ex-citement had no justification.
-- When taken in conjunc-tion with your uncle's death I am not sure that of all the five hundred cases of capital importance which I have han-dled there is one which cuts so deep.
-- If you have not had any report within the last few days it is because up to to-day there was nothing of importance to relate.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few only, of whom Lebedeff made one, stood their ground; he had contrived to walk side by side with Rogojin, for he quite un-derstood the importance of a man who had a fortune of a million odd roubles, and who at this moment carried a hun-dred thousand in his hand.
-- As for the letters N.P.B., he looked on that as a harmless joke, a mere childish piece of mischief so childish that he felt it would be shameful, almost dishon- ourable, to attach any importance to it.
-- This was the note: 'GAVRILA ARDOLIONOVITCH, persuaded of your kindness of heart, I have determined to ask your advice on a matter of great importance to myself.
-- 'Just so,' said Lebedeff, with dignity; 'and only this very morning I have sent up a letter to the noble lady, stating that I have a matter of great importance to communicate.
-- The story was so artful-ly adorned with scandalous details, and persons of so great eminence and importance were apparently mixed up in it, while, at the same time, the evidence was so circumstantial, that it was no wonder the matter gave food for plenty of cu-riosity and gossip.
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：
-- Then recollecting the importance of securing the fugitive, he dashed aside the surrounding bushes, and pressed eagerly forward to lend his aid in the chase.
-- This appalling declaration, which the scout uttered with the cool assurance of a man who fully comprehended, while he did not fear to face the danger, served to remind Hey-ward of the importance of the charge with which he himself had been intrusted.
-- The elder Mohican heard with deep gravity, and appeared to ponder on his words, as though he felt the importance of their import.
-- Duncan, who believed it of the last importance that they should speedily come to the contents of the letter borne by the scout, gladly encouraged this idea.
-- It would have been impossible for the most finished breeding to wear more of the appearance of con-sidering the visit as a thing of course, than did his hosts, notwithstanding every individual present was perfectly aware that it must be connected with some secret object and that probably of importance to themselves.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being con-sidered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
-- He came clattering up to the school-door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry - making or 'quilting-frolic,' to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having, delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook, and was seen scampering, away up the Hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
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：
-- For in men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes its place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life.
-- Chapter XLIVA certain importance attaches to the views on art of painters, and this is the natural place for me to set down what I know of Strickland's opinions of the great artists of the past.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this Hurstwood could see, and it left a trace of feeling, for he was used to being considered--in his official position, at least--and felt that his importance should not begin to wane here.
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