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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, bring in the bride," said Gerald, and Pork, turning, beckoned into the hall to his wife, newly arrived fromthe Wilkes plantation to become part of the household of Tara.
-- Scarlett was not the only member of the household who reactedstrangely and unwillingly to his presence, for her kept Aunt Pitty in a flutter and a ferment.
-- Hecarried her up the stairs to her bedroom and while the alarmed household fled hither and you for hot bricks, blanketsand whisky, he propped her on the pillows of her bed.
-- Planters and Crackers, rich andpoor, black and white, women and children, the old, the dying, the crippled, the wounded, the women far gone inpregnancy, crowded the road to Atlanta on trains, afoot, on horseback, in carriages and wagons piled high with trunksand household goods.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market-days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant.
-- I inquired was it a large household she was going to be a member of?
-- He did everything for me except the household work, for which he had engaged a very decent woman, after paying off the laundress on his first arrival.
-- There were printed bills on the gate and on bits of carpet hanging out of the windows, announcing a sale by auction of the Household Furniture and Effects, next week.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so it came to pass, that the bird, while out one day, met a fellow bird, to whom he boastfully expatiated on the excellence of his household arrangements.
-- Now the king felt great joy at this, and commanded that his entire household should eat with him next day, and made a great feast.
-- But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of 'Nursery and Household Tales' in 1812 and 1814.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious peo-ple to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have en-sued, if his imperial majesty had not provided, by several proclamations and orders of state, against this inconve-niency.
-- My mistress was gone about her household affairs, and had locked me in.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Mr. Bounderby stood in the midst of his household gods, so those unrelenting divinities occupied their places around Mr. Bounderby, and they were worthy of one another, and well matched.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Girls, Mr Clennam will excuse any household business you may have together.
-- The neatly-served and well-cooked dinner (for everything about the Patriarchal household promoted quiet digestion) began with some soup, some fried soles, a butter-boat of shrimp sauce, and a dish of potatoes.
-- As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying 'Mr Baptist tea-pot!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had always done this from the time they could lisp... Crinkle, crinkle, 'ittle 'tar, and it had become a household custom, for the mother was a born singer.
-- cried the family, all in one breath as they clustered about Jo, for these foolish, affectionate people mad a jubilee of every little household joy.
-- Everyone scattered like leaves before a gust of wind, and the quiet, happy household was broken up as suddenly as if the paper had been an evil spell.
-- It was gone, but Beth had remembered the little household ceremony, and there she was, nodding away at them like a rosyfaced mandarin.
-- To outsiders the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things, but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter, for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, hus-band and father.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then.
-- "Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship's deck at sea is a piece of household work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually foundering at the time.
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