infant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 婴儿，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- The clergyman had spo-ken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown-up-persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the beer-garden the tremendous Sondelius discoursed of the Cosmos Club, Halle's investigation of infant mortality, the suitability of combining benedictine and apple-jack, Biarritz, Lord Haldane, the Doane-Buckley method of milk examination, George Gissing, and homard thermidor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In fact, there was a story current among us (I have no idea, andnever had, on what authority, but I have believed it for so manyyears that I feel quite certain it is true), that on a frosty day, onewinter-time, he actually did bestow his gaiters on a beggar-woman, who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood byexhibiting a fine infant from door to door, wrapped in thosegarments, which were universally recognised, being as well knownin the vicinity as the cathedral.
-- As forme, I was a mere infant at the head of my own table; and hardlyventured to glance at the respectable phenomenon, who had comefrom Heaven knows where, to put my establishment to rights.
-- I find itvery curious to see my own infant face, looking up at me from thecrocodile stories; and to be reminded by it of my old acquaintanceBrooks of Sheffield.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was married to a poor medical man, and soon after an infant was born; and while money was forthcoming all went on well.
-- Oak took from his illimitable pockets a marking iron, dipped it into the pot, and imprinted on the buttocks of the infant sheep the initials of her he delighted to muse on "B. E.," which signified to all the region round that henceforth the lambs belonged to Farmer Bathsheba Everdene, and to no one else.
-- What Troy did was to sink upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robin, gently kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accom-panied them in their rambles.
-- With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the be-ing to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
-- The infant had been 28 Frankensteinplaced with these good people to nurse: they were better off then.
-- No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.
-- Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- Mrs. Pocket acted on the advice, and inexpertly danced the infant a little in her lap, while the other children played about it.
-- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
-- Which that same identical," said Joe, going down a new track, "do comb my 'air the wrong way sometimes, awful, by giving out up and down town as it were him which ever had your infant companionation and were looked upon as a playfellow by yourself."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lawn and garden and an infant avenue, all ruled straight like a botanical account-book.
-- This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring.
-- A thief!A plunderer!A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative!Therefore, my band of brothers in a sacred bond, to which your children and your children's children yet unborn have set their infant hands and seals, I propose to you on the part of the United Aggregate Tribunal, ever watchful for your welfare, ever zealous for your benefit, that this meeting does Resolve: That Stephen Blackpool, weaver, referred to in this placard, having been already solemnly disowned by the community of Coketown Hands, the same are free from the shame of his misdeeds, and cannot as a class be reproached with his dishonest actions!'
-- 'That'h Jack the Giant Killer piethe of comic infant bithnith,' said Sleary.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the same time, the infant crying in the night was crying out of his breast to her, in a way that affected her very womb.
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