promotion是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 促进； 提升； 创立，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Woe to the man who played tricks with THAT Army, or got undeserved promotion in it!Bet-ter for him that his beard had never grown, for the National Razor shaved him close.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may, at first sight, be matter of surprise to the thoughtless few that Mr Brass, being a professional gentleman, should not have legally indicted some party or parties, active in the promotion of the nuisance, but they will be good enough to remember, that as Doctors seldom take their own prescriptions, and Divines do not always practise what they preach, so lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving, than for its always shaving the right person.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the turmoil of her anxiety for her lover she had agreed to marry him; but the perception that had accompanied her happiest hours on this account was rather that of self-sacrifice than of promotion and honour.
-- Whether it was suggested by Bathsheba's recent act of promotion or not, the farmer proposed at the interview that Gabriel should undertake the superintendence of the Lower Farm as well as of Bathsheba's, because of the necessity Boldwood felt for such aid, and the impossibility of discovering a more trustworthy man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this same widening gulf which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran "Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove."
-- Drummle and I then sat snorting at one another for an hour, while the Grove engaged in indiscriminate contradiction, and finally the promotion of good feeling was declared to have gone ahead at an amazing rate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something Right SomewhereTo be in the halting state of Mr Henry Gowan; to have left one of two powers in disgust; to want the necessary qualifications for finding promotion with another, and to be loitering moodily about on neutral ground, cursing both; is to be in a situation unwholesome for the mind, which time is not likely to improve.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the fruits of promotion now; there's the vanity of glory: there's the insanity of life!Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise of Charley's laughter, and the voice of Miss Betsy, who opportunely arri ved to throw water over her friend, and perform other feminine offices for the promotion of her recovery, might have kept many people awake under more happy circumstances than those in which Oliver was placed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; and missed no opportunity of projecting weddings among all the young people of her acquaintance.
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