retirement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 退休， 引退； 退隐，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Varvara Ardalionovna married Ptitsin this winter, and it was said that the fact of Gania's retirement from busi-ness was the ultimate cause of the marriage, since Gania was now not only unable to support his family, but even re-quired help himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no way through it, and the front windows of the Doctor's lodg-ings commanded a pleasant little vista of street that had a congenial air of retirement on it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.
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：
-- Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the country, but it was his habit every August to take his family to Eastbourne for change of air; and it was here, when she was twenty, that she met Charles Strickland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hetold me that since his retirement from scholastic life, he had beenadvancing with it wonderfully; and that nothing could suit himbetter than the proposed arrangements for morning and eveningwork, as it was his custom to walk about in the day-time with hisconsidering cap on.
-- But, in general, Mr. Micawber has hadno secrets from the bosom of affection- I allude to his wife- and hasinvariably, on our retirement to rest, recalled the events of the day.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw that Enscombe could not satisfy, and that High-bury, taken at its best, might reasonably please a young man who had more retirement at home than he liked.
-- I honestly said as much to Mr. E. when he was speaking of my future home, and expressing his fears lest the retirement of it should be disagreeable; and the inferiority of the house too knowing what I had been accustomed to of course he was not whol-ly without apprehension.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidi-ous; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said he, mistaking me; "the retirement reminds you of the country.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one prin-cipal motive of my retirement hither.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One, to Mr. Bounderby, announcing his retirement from that part of the country, and showing where he would be found for the next fortnight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flora had 'gone to lie down' in the next room, concurrently with which retirement a smell of something to drink had broken out in the house.
-- This young man's disinterestedness appeared so very ludicrous in the eyes of Miss Rugg, that she was obliged to effect a precipitate retirement from the company, and to sit upon the stairs until she had had her laugh out.
-- Her retirement for the night was always her frostiest ceremony, as if she felt it necessary that the human imagination should be chilled into stone to prevent its following her.
-- There was then a long silence; during which, Mrs Sparkler, lying back on her sofa again, shut her eyes and raised her eyebrows in her former retirement from mundane affairs.
-- Frankly,' said the engaging young Barnacle, 'I have been excessively sorry to hear that you were under the necessity of a temporary retirement here, and I hope (of course as between two private gentlemen) that our place has had nothing to do with it?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'About his losses, maybe; or the little retirement in the country that he's just left, eh?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One ought not to repine; but, to be sure, it would have been such a thing for me!The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness!But it was not to be.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Design could never bring them in each other's way: negligence could never leave them exposed to a surprise; and chance had less in its favour in the crowd of London than even in the retirement of Barton, where it might force him before her while paying that visit at Allenham on his marriage, which Mrs. Dashwood, from foreseeing at first as a probable event, had brought herself to expect as a certain one.
-- Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting, instead of remaining even for ever with her mother, and finding her only pleasures in retirement and study, as afterwards in her more calm and sober judgment she had determined on, she found herself at nineteen, submitting to new attachments, entering on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife, the mistress of a family, and the patroness of a village.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
-- Had there been one sufficiently curious to have watched the movements of the newly elected chief, he would have seen him seated in a corner of his lodge, mus-ing on the subject of his future plans, from the hour of his retirement to the time he had appointed for the warriors to assemble again.
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