gentleman是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绅士， 先生，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So simple, or so insane, was he that he wrote to Dean Silva politely bidding him step down and hand over his school--his work, his life--to an unknown teacher in Harvard!A courteous old gentleman was Dad Silva, a fit disciple of Osler, but this incredible letter killed his patience.
-- Fortunately our ever alert policeman, Joe Colby, was on the job and helped Dr. Arrowsmith find Mr. Blassner's bungalow on Red River Avenue and this gentleman rose from bed and hastened to supply the doctor with the needed article but unfortunately the child was already too low to be saved but it is by such incidents of pluck and quick thinking as well as knowledge which make the medical profession one of our greatest blessings."
-- After Mrs. Tromp had recovered from her desire to call her husband aside and make unheard but vigorous observations, and after the oldest Tromp boy had learned that "it wasn't nice for a little gentleman to kick his wee guests that came from so far, far away," they were all very happy.
-- Look at these great strapping girls, Arrowsmith!Never been sick a day in their lives--practically--and though Mother does have her sick- headaches, that's to be attributed to the early neglect of her diet, because while her father, the old deacon--and a fine upstanding gentleman of the old school he was, too, if there ever was one, and a friend of Nathaniel Mugford, to whom more than any other we owe not only the foundation of Mugford College but also the tradition of integrity and industry which have produced our present prosperity--BUT he had no knowledge of diet or sanitation, and I've always thought--" The daughters were introduced as Orchid, Verbena, Daisy, Jonquil, Hibisca, Narcissa, and the twins, Arbuta and Gladiola.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet on the further side of the boulevard, about fifteen paces away, a gentleman was standing on the edge of the pavement.
-- The gentleman was a plump, thickly-set man, about thirty, fashionably dressed, with a high colour, red 72 Crime and Punishmentlips and moustaches.
-- the gentleman asked sternly, scowl-ing in haughty astonishment.
-- Raskolnikov rushed at him with his fists, without reflecting that the stout gentleman was a match for two men like himself.
-- The stout gentleman was easy to understand, he turned to consider the girl.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As my mother stooped down on the threshold to take me in herarms and kiss me, the gentleman said I was a more highlyprivileged little fellow than a monarch- or something like that; formy later understanding comes, I am sensible, to my aid here.
-- She gently chid me for being rude; and, keeping me close to her shawl, turned to thank the gentleman for taking so much trouble as to bring her home.
-- Gradually, I became used to seeing the gentleman with the blackwhiskers.
-- After some laughing, the gentleman whom he hadcalled Quinion said- 'And what is the opinion of Brooks ofSheffield, in reference to the projected business?'
-- 'Besides,' said Em'ly as she looked about for shells and pebbles,'your father was a gentleman and your mother is a lady; and myfather was a fisherman and my mother was a fisherman'sdaughter, and my uncle Dan is a fisherman.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.
-- But he is not the only gentleman you have been lately used to.
-- Mr. Elton's situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and with-out low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet.
-- Then here is my last,' unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length 'my last and my best my brother, Mr. John Knightley.
-- She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up. There can scarcely be a doubt that her father is a gentle-man and a gentleman of fortune. Her allowance is very liberal; nothing has ever been grudged for her improvement or comfort. That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubi-table to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. She is superior to Mr. Rob-ert Martin.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And a frame for cucumbers like a gentleman and lady."
-- "God's a perfect gentleman in that respect."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I met a gentleman in the street a few days ago; he said to me, 'There's a gentleman in your place, isn't there?
-- "Why, only just now," said the student, "I saw a gentleman go out at the gate, Father Goriot, my next door neighbor in the house where I am lodging."
-- "Neither your mistress nor I are at home to that gentleman when he calls," the Count said to Maurice.
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