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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A kiss for a blow is al-ways best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes,' said her mother, with the air of one who had learned the difference between preaching and practicing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
-- And there's a mighty difference between a living thump and a dead thump.
-- Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans.
-- Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance aye, chance, free will, and necessity nowise incompatible all interweavingly working together.
-- Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver did as the old lady bade him; and, although she lamented grievously, meanwhile, that there was not even time to crimp the little frill that bordered his shirt-collar; he looked so delicate and handsome, despite that important personal advantage, that she went so far as to say: looking at him with great complacency from head to foot, that she really didn't think it would have been possible, on the longest notice, to have made much difference in him for the better.
-- I never see any difference in boys.
-- Oliver had long since grown stout and healthy; but health or sickness made no difference in his warm feelings of a great many people.
-- Notwithstanding the difference between youth and age, he bore so strong a likeness to the old lady, that Oliver would have had no great difficulty in imagining their relationship, if he had not already spoken of her as his mother.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that is one great difference between us.
-- She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on which there could be no difference of senti-ment.
-- Mr. Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclina-tion, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: 'My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters with-in the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the es-tablished forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.
-- You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.
-- 'Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimo-nial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of lon-gitude difference west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that of the river Orinoco, commonly called the Great River; and began to consult with me what course he should take, for the ship was leaky, and very much disabled, and he was going di-rectly back to the coast of Brazil.
-- and though it had cost us something more, yet the difference of that price was by no means worth saving at so great a hazard.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was contrary to every doctrine of hers that difference of fortune should keep any couple asunder who were attracted by resemblance of disposition; and that Elinor's merit should not be acknowledged by every one who knew her, was to her comprehension impossible.
-- She was first called to observe and approve him farther, by a reflection which Elinor chanced one day to make on the difference between him and his sister.
-- "Nay, Mama, if he is not to be animated by Cowper! but we must allow for difference of taste.
-- The same books, the same passages were idolized by each or if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed.
-- YOU must have seen the difference as well as I.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could not have framed thoughts which would have expressed his defect or made clear the difference between them, but she felt it.
-- Carrie noticed the difference between the size of the rooms here and in Chicago and mentioned it.
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