greatness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 伟大， 大，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilius in Hector's service, and if ever I get home again to set eyes on my native place, my wife, and the greatness of my house, may some one cut my head off then and there if I do not break the bow and set it on a hot fire such pranks as it plays me.'
-- Till now I made sure that I alone was to fall here at Troy away from Argos, while you were to return to Phthia, bring back my son with you in your own ship, and show him all my property, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house for Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her eyes.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside him stood Max Gottlieb, and in Gottlieb's power he reverently sought to explain that mankind has ever given up eventual greatness because some crisis, some war or election or loyalty to a Messiah which at the moment seemed weighty, has choked the patient search for truth.
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：
-- I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.
-- The greatness of Charles Strickland was authentic.
-- If they who believe in Strickland's greatness are right, the personal narratives of such as knew him in the flesh can hardly be superfluous.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin!He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when some confessed they owed their greatness and wealth to sodomy, or incest; others, to the prostituting of their 252 Gulliver's Travelsown wives and daughters; others, to the betraying of their country or their prince; some, to poisoning; more to the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration, which I am nat-urally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby, having got it into his explosive composition that Mrs. Sparsit was a highly superior woman to perceive that he had that general cross upon him in his deserts (for he had not yet settled what it was), and further that Louisa would have objected to her as a frequent visitor if it had comported with his greatness that she should object to anything he chose to do, resolved not to lose sight of Mrs. Sparsit easily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bleeding Heart YardIn London itself, though in the old rustic road towards a suburb of note where in the days of William Shakespeare, author and stage-player, there were Royal hunting-seats howbeit no sport is left there now but for hunters of men Bleeding Heart Yard was to be found; a place much changed in feature and in fortune, yet with some relish of ancient greatness about it.
-- A composed and unobtrusive self-sustainment was noticeable in Daniel Doyce a calm knowledge that what was true must remain true, in spite of all the Barnacles in the family ocean, and would be just the truth, and neither more nor less when even that sea had run dry which had a kind of greatness in it, though not of the official quality.
-- The fiction that it was not Mr Meagles who had stood in the way, but that it was the Family greatness, and that the Family greatness had made a concession, and there was now a soothing unanimity, pervaded the affair, though it was never openly expressed.
-- It made her anxious and ill at ease to be operated upon by that smoothing hand, it is true; but she submitted herself to the family want in its greatness as she had submitted herself to the family want in its littleness, and yielded to her own inclinations in this thing no more than she had yielded to her hunger itself, in the days when she had saved her dinner that her father might have his supper.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will', then her friend friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
-- Oh, lonely death on lonely life!Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies; and Sir William, to Elizabeth's high diversion, was stationed in the doorway, in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him, and constantly bowing whenever Miss de Bourgh looked that way.
-- Then after a short silence he continued: 'Lizzy, I bear you no ill-will for being justified in your advice to me last May, which, considering the event, shows some greatness of mind.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Greatness will not make me so."
-- "What magnificent orders would travel from this family to London," said Edward, "in such an event!What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops!You, Miss Dashwood, would give a general commission for every new print of merit to be sent you and as for Marianne, I know her greatness of soul, there would not be music enough in London to content her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had wondered at the greatness of the names upon the bill-boards, the marvel of the long notices in the papers, the beauty of the dresses upon the stage, the atmosphere of carriages, flowers, refinement.
-- It was greatness in a way, small as it was.
-- At the Lyceum she entered one of those secluded, under-stairway closets, berugged and bepaneled, which causes one to feel the greatness of all positions of authority.
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