difference是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 差别， 差异， 分歧，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feared that some difference betweenhim and his mother might have led to his being in the frame ofmind in which I had found him at the solitary fireside.
-- Hisrepudiation of this offer was almost shrill enough, in the excess ofits surprise and humility, to have penetrated to the ears of Mrs.Crupp, then sleeping, I suppose, in a distant chamber, situated atabout the level of low water-mark, soothed in her slumbers by theticking of an incorrigible clock, to which she always referred mewhen we had any little difference on the score of punctuality, andwhich was never less than three-quarters of an hour too slow, andhad always been put right in the morning by the best authorities.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How was she to bear the change? It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Tay-lor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from in-tellectual solitude.
-- 'A material difference then,' she replied 'and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives; but does not the lapse of one-and-twenty years bring our understandings a good deal nearer?'
-- 'But, my dear sir, the difference of the journey; only consider how great it would have been. An hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty.'
-- 'Oh, the difference of situation and habit!I wish you would try to understand what an amiable young man may be likely to feel in directly opposing those, whom as child and boy he has been looking up to all his life.'
-- But she had believed them to be well-meaning, worthy peo-ple before; and what difference did this make in the evils of the connexion?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a difference concerning twopence between the persons with the waggon and the man at the toll-bar.
-- A difference of colour in the stars oftener read of than seen in England was really perceptible here.
-- The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilised mankind, who are dreamwrapt and disregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars.
-- Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
-- Long experience had so precisely taught the animal the difference between such exclamations as "Come in!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
-- There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
-- I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
-- The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind andflattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further herown aims.
-- You've known so few dyed-in-the-wool varmints in your shelteredlife that my very difference holds a quaint charm for you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This lady, whose name was Camilla, very much reminded me of my sister, with the difference that she was older, and (as I found when I caught sight of her) of a blunter cast of features.
-- "But it makes no difference to you, you know," said Biddy, calmly.
-- "No, Biddy, it makes no difference to me; only I don't like it; I don't approve of it."
-- "Though that makes no difference to you."
-- Chapter XIXMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the ex-ercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
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