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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another day two at the most and I have my case complete, but until then guard your charge as closely as ever a fond mother watched her ailing child.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They've treated me like a dog!I've been ill of fever at Pskoff the whole time, and not a line, nor farthing of money, have I received from my mother or my confounded brother!'
-- Of course my mother couldn't do anything she's too old and whatever brother Senka says is law for her!But why couldn't he let me know?
-- My mother is always crying, of course, and my sister sulks.
-- At least, I gave my sister to understand as much, and my mother was present.'
-- Now, as to your plans in the house, or rather in the family of Gania here my young friend, whom I hope you will know better his mother and sister have prepared two or three rooms for lodgers, and let them to highly recommended young fellows, with board and attendance.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.
-- But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.
-- Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine.
-- And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands.
-- She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twas in that very chair my poor dear mother used to sit when I was a little girl.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- It pleased him to see Mother and Father Wolf look uncomfortable.
-- 'His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,' said Mother Wolf quietly.
-- It is neither bullock nor buck he hunts to-night,' said Mother Wolf.
-- 'He has missed,' said Mother Wolf.
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：
-- While the husbandman shrank back from the dangerous passes, within the safer boundaries of the more ancient set-tlements, armies larger than those that had often disposed of the scepters of the mother countries, were seen to bury themselves in these forests, whence they rarely returned but in skeleton bands, that were haggard with care or dejected by defeat.
-- In this manner does the mother country absorb even the fame, under that system of rule.
-- Who shall say to the wife of Menowgua that the fishes have his scalp, and that his nation have not taken revenge!Who will dare meet the mother of Wassawattimie, that scornful woman, with his hands clean!What shall be said to the old men when they ask us for scalps, and we have not a hair from a white head to give them!The women will point their fingers at us.
-- Your mother was the only child of my bosom friend, Duncan; and I'll just give you a hearing, though all the knights of St. Louis were in a body at the sally-port, with the French saint at their head, crying to speak a word under favor.
-- There it was my lot to form a connection with one who in time became my wife, and the mother of Cora.
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：
-- They would grow old insensibly; they would see their son and daughter come to years of reason, marry in due course the one a pretty girl, future mother of healthy children; the other a handsome, manly fellow, obviously a soldier; and at last, prosperous in their dignified retirement, beloved by their descendants, after a happy, not unuseful life, in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave.
-- My poor mother was very proud of my gift, and she gave me a box of water-colours as a present.
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