modification是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 缓和； 修改； 修饰，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another school of opinion followed Mr. Fearenside, and either accepted the piebald view or some modification of it; as, for instance, Silas Durgan, who was heard to assert that "if he choses to show enself at fairs he'd make his fortune in no time," and being a bit of a theologian, compared the stranger to the man with the one talent.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very much indeed of what we call moral education, he said, is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bailiff was pointed out to Gabriel, who, checking the palpitation within his breast at discovering that this Ashtoreth of strange report was only a modification of Venus the well-known and admired, retired with him to talk over the necessary preliminaries of hiring.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What had happened to the Undergrounders I did not yet suspect; but, from what I had seen of the Morlocks that, by the bye, was the name by which these creatures were called I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the 'Eloi,' the beautiful race that I already knew.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another modification of Prunes and Prism insinuated itself on Little Dorrit's notice very shortly after their arrival.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course we are," he said, with the slightest modification of sharpness.
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