reputation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 名誉, 名声，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.
-- "Mr. Jaggers," said I, by way of putting it neatly on somebody else, "has the reputation of being more in the secrets of that dismal place than any man in London."
-- I established with myself, on these occasions, the reputation of a first-rate man of business,--prompt, decisive, energetic, clear, cool-headed.
-- Curious to know how the old gentleman stood informed concerning the reputation of Mr. Jaggers, I roared that name at him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excel-lent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account.
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
-- I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, 'that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excel-lent qualities of mind that he was master of; that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the con-trary, we observed in our country, that the tallest persons were usually the least provided with it; that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.'
-- I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor in-deed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was as much amused and interested, at present, as it became so fine a gentleman to be; perhaps even more than it would have been consistent with his reputation to confess.
-- To tell you the truth, I don't think it would be worthy of my reputation to quarrel on such a subject.
-- Detected as the Bully of humility, who had built his windy reputation upon lies, and in his boastfulness had put the honest truth as far away from him as if he had advanced the mean claim (there is no meaner) to tack himself on to a pedigree, he cut a most ridiculous figure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was modest in his glory, but his reputation only increased.
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：
-- But, determined to build himself a monument of a reputation quickly, he used any handy rubble in the making.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
-- Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this nature, that several solemn lords had attained the reputation of being quite unearthly prodigies of business, solely from having practised, How not to do it, as the head of the Circumlocution Office.
-- Now, that Mr Merdle was already at no loss to discover means of occupying even his capital, and of fully employing even his active and vigorous intellect, Bar well knew: but he would venture to suggest that the question arose in his mind, whether one who had deservedly gained so high a position and so European a reputation did not owe it we would not say to himself, but we would say to Society, to possess himself of such influences as these; and to exercise them we would not say for his own, or for his party's, but we would say for Society's benefit.
-- I don't mean that there is anything ungenteel in that itself far from it but I do mean that he doesn't do it well, and that he doesn't, if I may so express myself, get the money's-worth in the sort of dissipated reputation that attaches to him.'
-- I devoted myself to reclaim the otherwise predestined and lost boy; to give him the reputation of an honest origin; to bring him up in fear and trembling, and in a life of practical contrition for the sins that were heavy on his head before his entrance into this condemned world.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I could not suspect him of courting notoriety by any mere tricks of the stage.
-- Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XVII OLIVER'S DESTINY CONTINUING UNPROPITIOUS, BRINGS A GREAT MAN TO LONDON TO INJURE HIS REPUTATION It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.
-- Such commendations had been bestowed upon his bravery, that he could not, for the life of him, help postponing the explanation for a few delicious minutes; during which he had flourished, in the very zenith of a brief reputation for undaunted courage.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has the reputation of being remarkably sensible and clever; but I rather believe she de-rives part of her abilities from her rank and fortune, part from her authoritative manner, and the rest from the pride for her nephew, who chooses that everyone connected with him should have an understanding of the first class.'
-- Then, perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of reply-ing, she added, 'Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.'
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