mother是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 母亲，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：
-- 'Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything.
-- Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect upon the girls, for Mother was coming, and everyone brightened to welcome her.
-- 'I'm the oldest,' began Meg, but Jo cut in with a decided, 'I'm the man of the family now Papa is away, and I shall provide the slippers, for he told me to take special care of Mother while he was gone.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been cutting up some caper or other I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.
-- The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
-- Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
-- "I thought to relieve my old bed-ridden mother by part of my share of this whale."
-- "No, I don't," said the captain, "but his mother did; he was born with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither his father nor his mother will ever interfere with him.
-- No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
-- But yer must know, Work'us, yer mother was a regular right-down bad 'un.'
-- But his spirit was roused at last; the cruel insult to his dead mother had set his blood on fire.
-- Excitable natures, Mrs. Sowerberry!Both the nurse and doctor said, that that mother of his made her way here, against difficulties and pain that would have killed any well-disposed woman, weeks before.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We are not in a way to know WHAT Mr. Bingley likes,' said her mother resentfully, 'since we are not to visit.'
-- Jane was as much gratified by this as her mother could be, though in a quieter way.
-- Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speak- ing to, a wish of being better acquainted with THEM was expressed towards the two eldest.
-- Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.
-- Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
-- However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again, and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
-- This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject; that he knew too well what was my inter-est to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father, and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for me; but I might depend I should never have their con-sent to it; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not.
-- Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet I heard afterwards that she reported all the discourse to him, and that my father, after showing a great concern at it, said to her, with a sigh, 'That boy might be happy if he would stay at home; but if he goes abroad, he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born: I can give no consent to it.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
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