grandmother是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 祖母， 外祖母，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then his grandmother patted his head and told him other stories.
-- An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.
-- A single lamp was burning there; and on the floor stood the tame Raven, turning her head on every side and looking at Gerda, who bowed as her grandmother had taught her to do.
-- And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of keeping her grandmother near her.
-- And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was bright-er than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mrs. John Knight-ley. 'It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them!I always regret excessively on dear Emma's account that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married, I suppose Colonel and Mrs. Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.
-- It was accepted; and from that period Jane had belonged to Colonel Campbell's family, and had lived with them entirely, only visiting her grandmother from time to time.
-- Jane had spent an evening at Hartfield with her grandmother and aunt, and every thing was relapsing much into its usual state.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recollect the steward telling my grandmother that she might live at Grandvilliers in complete security, because her corn was as good as a certificate of civism.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Set out before it gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get nothing; and when you go into her room, don't for-get to say, 'Good morning', and don't peep into every corner before you do it.'
-- The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
-- 'Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stron-ger.'
-- 'Where does your grandmother live, Little Red-Cap?'
-- Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought: 'Suppose I take grandmother a fresh nosegay; that would please her too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My mother left me to my grandmother,' said Bounderby; 'and, according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived.
-- Why, I have known that grandmother of mine lie in her bed and drink her four-teen glasses of liquor before breakfast!'
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：
-- The grandmother had been blackleading the stove, it was Saturday morning.
-- The grandmother looked around swiftly at the child: 'Why, wheer was yer Dad?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her old grandmother was not so kind to her as she should have been; was she, Maggy?'
-- ' Her grandmother did not know what to do with her, and for some years was very unkind to her indeed.
-- When I got home, I told my supposed grandmother that, unless I was sent away to finish my education somewhere else before that girl came back, or before any one of them came back, I would burn my sight away by throwing myself into the fire, rather than I would endure to look at their plotting faces.
-- Before I left them, I learned that I had no grandmother and no recognised relation.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her grandfather often called her 'Beth', and her grandmother watched over her with untiring devo-tion, as if trying to atone for some past mistake, which no eye but her own could see.
-- A careful explanation followed, to which he listened so attentively that his anxious grandmother said, 'My dear, do you think it wise to talk about such things to that baby?
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