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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him, 'that since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my way, I was resolved to venture myself on the ocean, rather than be an occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs.'
-- Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
-- 'That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own hap-piness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, what-soever, to procure myself riches.
-- Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a vice or a vir-tue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire; what is the best colour for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray; and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean; with many more.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
-- The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy never mind the name is, that we know it is all meaningless, and say so; while they know it equally and will never say so.'
-- Where was the great difference between the two schools, when each chained her down to material realities, and inspired her with no faith in anything else?
-- Louisa had observed her with her arm round Sissy's neck, and she felt the difference of this approach.
-- It will make no difference to you.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The difference evidently depends on the conductibility of certain rocks.
-- There is no marked difference between them.
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：
-- Oh, there's not much difference in men!'
-- The moneyboy and the moneygirl, the only difference was how much you'd got, and how much you wanted.
-- 'I shouldn't mind, if it made no difference between us,' he said.
-- 'No difference to what?'
-- 'Oh, it wouldn't make any difference to my feeling for you,' she said, with a certain sarcasm.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was yet another source of difference between us.
-- Both are conventionally compared with death; but the difference is the whole deep gulf between the struggle done, and the fight at its most desperate extremity.
-- The waking Flintwinch was the old original; the sleeping Flintwinch was the double, just as she might have distinguished between a tangible object and its reflection in a glass, Affery made out this difference with her head going round and round.
-- She hurriedly declined, saying that wet or dry made little difference to her; she was used to go about in all weathers.
-- The brown, grave gentleman, who smiled so pleasantly, who was so frank and considerate in his manner, and yet in whose earnestness there was something that reminded her of his mother, with the great difference that she was earnest in asperity and he in gentleness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were neither many nor heavy, but that made no difference to her.
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXIt takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
-- 'You know as well as I that it does make a difference with nearly everyone, so don't ruffle up like a dear, motherly hen, when your chickens get pecked by smarter birds.
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