learning是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 知识， 学问； 学习，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would not delay an instant, but went straight on to the house of Mr. Bentic, her Majesty's Consul, who received them very courteously, and, on learning their errand, undertook to make inquiries all along the coast.
-- repeated Glenarvan; "but Paganel, my unfortunate fellow, Camoens was a Portuguese!It is Portuguese you have been learning for the last six weeks!"
-- After this prelude, he gave an amusing recital of his disastrous mistake in learning Spanish, and his profound study of Camoens.
-- The little savages are very quick in learning geography.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What is the good of reading, what is the good of learning anything, for just six months?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were golden handmaids also who worked for him, and were like real young women, with sense and reason, voice also and strength, and all the learning of the immortals; these bus-ied themselves as the king bade them, while he drew near to Thetis, seated her upon a goodly seat, and took her hand in his own, saying, 'Why have you come to our house, Thetis honoured and ever welcome for you do not visit us often?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep again.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small-ness of the company made it necessary for the two principal actors to take several parts apiece, and they certainly de-served some credit for the hard work they did in learning three or four different parts, whisking in and out of various costumes, and managing the stage besides.
-- Beth was worried by the confusion of her closet and the difficulty of learning three or four songs at once, and Amy deeply regretted the dam-age done her frock, for Katy Brown's party was to be the next day and now like Flora McFlimsey, she had 'nothing to wear'.
-- I think my little girl is learning this.'
-- 'I'll wait, and in the meantime, you could be learning to like me.
-- Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
-- "Some two years prior to my first learning the events which I am about rehearsing to you, gentlemen, the Town-Ho, Sperm Whaler of Nantucket, was cruising in your Pacific here, not very many days' sail eastward from the eaves of this good Golden Inn.
-- But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his foolish pride of reason a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea.
-- I mention this circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller whales now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the lake evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been some time with Mr. Gardiner, who, with two or three other gentlemen from the house, was en-gaged by the river, and had left him only on learning that the ladies of the family intended a visit to Georgiana that morning.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Elinor how are HER feelings to be described? From the moment of learning that Lucy was married to another, that Edward was free, to the moment of his justifying the hopes which had so instantly followed, she was every thing by turns but tranquil.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Carrie, already learning directness of address.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's something they give me for learning my lessons good.'
-- Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
-- This is the speech I learned it, easy enough, while he was learning it to the king: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 23 Pinocchio weeps upon learning that the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair is dead.
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