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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, girl,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'take this gentleman and me to your father's; we are going there.
-- 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.
-- 'We'd have had a young gentleman to meet you, if we had known you were coming,' retorted Master Kidderminster, nothing abashed.
-- 'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair which all shook at once.
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：
-- Winter was an elderly gentleman now, wealthy, one of the wealthy coal-owners who had had their hey-day in King Edward's time.
-- After all, Mr Winter, who was really a gentleman and a man of the world, treated her as a person and a dis-criminating individual; he did not lump her together with all the rest of his female womanhood in his 'thee' and 'tha'.
-- The sort of youngish gentleman a bit like a lady, and no balls.'
-- 'Yes!The Villa Esmeralda!Yes!I know it!I have been the gondolier for a gentleman there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Haha!You are right!A gentleman I am!And a gentleman I'll live, and a gentleman I'll die!It's my intent to be a gentleman.
-- 'Good!The President will have a gentleman before him soon.
-- I have lived here, and lived there, and lived like a gentleman everywhere.
-- I have been treated and respected as a gentleman universally.
-- Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the last three on one side of the table: on the opposite side sat Mr Clennam; a tall French gentleman with raven hair and beard, of a swart and terrible, not to say genteelly diabolical aspect, but who had shown himself the mildest of men; and a handsome young Englishwoman, travelling quite alone, who had a proud observant face, and had either withdrawn herself from the rest or been avoided by the rest nobody, herself excepted perhaps, could have quite decided which.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.
-- Though decidedly shaken by the fall from the tower upon him, Roderigo defied the old gentleman and refused to stir.
-- Yet it seemed a lonely, lifeless sort of house, for no chil-dren frolicked on the lawn, no motherly face ever smiled at the windows, and few people went in and out, except the old gentleman and his grandson.
-- I've a great mind to go over and tell the old gentleman so!'
-- Laurie enjoyed that immensely, and when she told about the prim old gentleman who came once to woo Aunt March, and in the middle of a fine speech, how Poll had tweaked his wig off to his great dismay, the boy lay back and laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks, and a maid popped her head in to see what was the matter.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (Octavo), CHAPTER V. (Thrasher). This gentleman is famous for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes.
-- One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous "whiskers" inside of the whale's mouth;* another, "hogs' bristles"; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: "There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his upper chop, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth."
-- In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and endearments of the harem.
-- Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman's property, along with whatever harpoon might have been found sticking in her.
-- But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The medical gentleman walked away to dinner; and the nurse, having once more applied herself to the green bottle, sat down on a low chair before the fire, and proceeded to dress the infant.
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