quarterly是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. 季度的, 季刊，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：
-- Isn't it just barely possible that Uncle Pumblechook may be a tenant of hers, and that he may sometimes--we won't say quarterly or half-yearly, for that would be requiring too much of you--but sometimes--go there to pay his rent?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I cannot object,' said Mrs General 'though even that is disagreeable to me to Mr Dorrit's inquiring, in confidence of my friends here, what amount they have been accustomed, at quarterly intervals, to pay to my credit at my bankers'.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg gave all her quarterly salary toward the rent, and I only got some clothes with mine, so I felt wicked, and was bound to have some money, if I sold the nose off my face to get it.'
-- John was busy that month and left the bills to her, the next month he was absent, but the third he had a grand quarterly settling up, and Meg never forgot it.
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