own是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (用在所有格后面， 加强语气) 自己的，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- Euroclydon!says old Dives, in his red silken wrapper (he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, pooh!What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights!Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting conservatories; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals.
-- I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
-- In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: 'Please, sir, I want some more.'
-- Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
-- He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.'
-- Bennet, how CAN you abuse your own children in such a way?
-- 'Kitty has no discretion in her coughs,' said her father; 'she times them ill.' 'I do not cough for my own amusement,' replied Kitty fretfully.
-- Darcy danced only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, de-clined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in walking about the room, speaking occa-sionally to one of his own party.
-- and turning round he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said: 'She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt ME; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, finding the listening John Baptist in his way before the echoes had ceased (even the echoes were the weaker for imprisonment, and seemed to lag), reminded him with a push of his foot that he had better resume his own darker place.
-- John Baptist said in his own language, and with the quick conciliatory manner of his own countrymen.
-- I own no particular country.
-- He lighted the second at the ashes of the first, and smoked on, looking sideways at his companion, who, preoccupied with his own case, hardly looked at him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least.
-- Everyone thought soberly for a minute, then Meg an-nounced, as if the idea was suggested by the sight of her own pretty hands, 'I shall give her a nice pair of gloves.'
-- The girls flew about, try-ing to make things comfortable, each in her own way.
-- Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
-- Hannah, who had carried wood, made a fire, and stopped up the broken panes with old hats and her own cloak.
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