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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the top of the table, seated in an arm -chair rather higher than the rest, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.
-- said the gentleman in the high chair.
-- These two causes made him answer in a very low and hesitating voice; whereupon a gentleman in a white waistcoat said he was a fool.
-- 'Boy,' said the gentleman in the high chair, 'listen to me.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza, that it is cru-el to deny me the happiness of seeing you; and though this gentleman dislikes the amusement in general, he can have no objection, I am sure, to oblige us for one half-hour.'
-- But I am afraid you are giving it a turn which that gentleman did by no means intend; for he would certainly think better of me, if under such a cir-cumstance I were to give a flat denial, and ride off as fast as I could.'
-- 'A gentleman and a strang- er!It is Mr. Bingley, I am sure!Well, I am sure I shall be extremely glad to see Mr. Bingley.
-- The church OUGHT to have been my profession I was brought up for the church, and I should at this time have been in posses- sion of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we were speaking of just now.'
-- But in an instant arose the dreadful suspicion of his being purposely omitted for Mr. Darcy's pleasure in the Bingleys' invitation to the officers; and though this was not exactly the case, the absolute fact of his absence was pronounced by his friend Denny, to whom Lydia eagerly ap-plied, and who told them that Wickham had been obliged to go to town on business the day before, and was not yet returned; adding, with a significant smile, 'I do not imagine his business would have called him away just now, if he had not wanted to avoid a certain gentleman here.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
-- It was the offer of a small house, on very easy terms, belonging to a relation of her own, a gentleman of consequence and property in Devonshire.
-- The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation.
-- They would see, he said, only one gentleman there besides himself; a particular friend who was staying at the park, but who was neither very young nor very gay.
-- A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without this enclosure, but just within the street entrance, sat a grey-haired gentleman at a small table, with a large open ledger before him.
-- He went on leisurely writing, until after a time a short, stout gentleman came in from the street.
-- The short gentleman turned about towards Carrie, and she arose and came forward.
-- In passing through Fifth Avenue, south towards Van Buren Street, where she intended to take a car, she passed the door of a large wholesale shoe house, through the plate-glass windows of which she could see a middle-aged gentleman sitting at a small desk.
-- said Hurstwood, glancing at a gentleman just entering, arrayed in a high hat and Prince Albert coat, his fat cheeks puffed and red as with good eating.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old gentleman says: 'There; I reckon it's all right.
-- As soon as I was in the old gentleman he locked the door and barred it and bolted it, and told the young men to come in with their guns, and they all went in a big parlor that had a new rag carpet on the floor, and got together in a cor-ner that was out of the range of the front windows there warn't none on the side.
-- He Cwas a gentleman all over; and so was his family.
-- The old gentleman owned a lot of farms and over a hun-dred niggers.
-- It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their draw-ers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable there must a been twenty of them and every lady with a lovely complexion, and per- fectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with dia-monds.
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