universal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 普遍的, 全体的, 全球的，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, though filled with the universal Southern desire tobelieve only the pleasantest and most reassuring things about the progress of the fighting, felt cold as she watched themotley ranks go by.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They made me a sign that I should throw down the two hogsheads, but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying aloud, Borach mevolah; and when they saw the vessels in the air, there was a universal shout of Hekinah degul.
-- But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise insurrections, he proceeds to the last remedy, by letting the island drop directly upon their heads, which makes a universal destruction both of houses and men.
-- Another great advantage proposed by this invention was, that it would serve as a universal language, to be understood in all civilised nations, whose goods and utensils are gener-ally of the same kind, or nearly resembling, so that their uses might easily be comprehended.
-- For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved, and the diseases cured, by the same prescriptions?
-- I cried out, as in a rapture, 'Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal!Happy peo-ple, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages!but happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an universal murmur to the same effect, though no man articulated a word.
-- There was an universal cry of 'Alive or dead?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unhappy wretches never came forward to beg; on the contrary, they ran away; not so quick, however, but that Hans was able to salute them with the universal saellvertu.
-- Are not all bodies influenced by the law of universal attraction?
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：
-- And universal starvation is no high aim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything in Marseilles, and about Marseilles, had stared at the fervid sky, and been stared at in return, until a staring habit had become universal there.
-- The universal stare made the eyes ache.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wild-ly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, 'I told you so!I told you so!'
-- A universal favorite, thanks to money, manners, much talent, and the kindest heart that ever got its owner into scrapes by trying to get other peo-ple out of them, he stood in great danger of being spoiled, and probably would have been, like many another prom-ising boy, if he had not possessed a talisman against evil in the memory of the kind old man who was bound up in his success, the motherly friend who watched over him as if he were her son, and last, but not least by any means, the knowledge that four innocent girls loved, admired, and be-lieved in him with all their hearts.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen.
-- Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
-- How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, these are matters totally beneath a female who is acknowledged by universal admission to be far above the numerous little foibles and weaknesses of her sex.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not be afraid of my running into any excess, of my encroaching on your privilege of universal good-will.
-- Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and mean-est degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and empti-ness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal contempt which her rage for admiration will excite.
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