household是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 家庭， 家人a. 家庭(务) 的， 家常的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Firstly, because, on fine Sundays, he often walked out, be-fore dinner, with the Doctor and Lucie; secondly, because, on unfavourable Sundays, he was accustomed to be with them as the family friend, talking, reading, looking out of window, and generally getting through the day; thirdly, be-cause he happened to have his own little shrewd doubts to solve, and knew how the ways of the Doctor's household pointed to that time as a likely time for solving them.
-- From such household occupations as their bare poverty yielded, from their chil-dren, from their aged and their sick crouching on the bare ground famished and naked, they ran out with streaming hair, urging one another, and themselves, to madness with the wildest cries and actions.
-- 392 A tale of two cities As soon as they were established in their new residence, and her father had entered on the routine of his avocations, she arranged the little household as exactly as if her hus-band had been there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys.
-- She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
-- It was her solitary refuge from the household cares which crowded upon her directly she went out from it.
-- It was true that as far as she could recall her impressions at Petersburg at the Karenins', she did not like their household itself; there was something artificial in the whole framework of their family life.
-- There was nothing for it but to submit, since, although all the doctors had studied in the same school, had read the same books, and learned the same science, and though some people said this celebrated doctor was a bad doctor, in the princess's household and circle it was for some reason accepted that this celebrated doctor alone had some special knowledge, and that he alone could save Kitty.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He saw Leora, always an "odd child," doing obediently enough the flat household tasks but keeping snug the belief that some day she would find a youngster with whom, in whatever danger or poverty, she would behold all the colored world.
-- Before he had sufficiently recovered from his fury to be able to reply, his household was overwhelmed by his wife's sudden agony.
-- "Well, by golly!After I come in here trying to make peace!It's a good thing YOU never make any mistakes!But one perfect person in a household is enough!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A family who had come to the town and been reduced to poverty were selling their household goods and clothes, all women's things.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night when Miss Murdstone had beendeveloping certain household plans to her brother, of which hesignified his approbation, my mother suddenly began to cry, andsaid she thought she might have been consulted.
-- I don't know how the household furniture came to be sold for thefamily benefit, or who sold it, except that I did not.
-- And of this, I noticed the women-servants inthe household were so intuitively conscious, that they always didsuch work themselves, and generally while he read the paper bythe pantry fire.
-- We lived much as before, in referenceto our scrambling household arrangements; but I had got used tothose, and Dora I was pleased to see was seldom vexed now.
-- Mrs. Traddles, with perfect pleasure and composurebeaming from her household eyes, having made the tea, thenquietly made the toast as she sat in a corner by the fire.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The waggon was laden with household goods and window plants, and on the apex of the whole sat a woman, young and attractive.
-- In the room from which the conversation proceeded Bathsheba and her servant-companion, Liddy Smallbury, were to be discovered sitting upon the floor, and sorting a complication of papers, books, bottles, and rubbish spread out thereon remnants from the household stores of the late occupier.
-- The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter so largely into all earthly living and doing were disguised by the accident of lover and loved-one not being on visiting terms; and there was hardly awakened a thought in Boldwood that sorry household realities appertained to her, or that she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered.
-- I will protect and cherish you with all my strength I will indeed!You shall have no cares be worried by no household affairs, and live quite at ease, Miss Everdene.
-- A woman was out of the question in such an occupation at this hour, and the comer could be no less than a thief, who might probably have known the weakness of the household on this particular night, and have chosen it on that account for his daring attempt.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of consequence in the quarter, and ask for subscriptions for charitable purposes; she would make little Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author's tickets that one of her boarders sometimes gave her, in July; the whole Eldorado of a little Parisian household rose up before Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to theservice of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had neverasked any questions.
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