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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When your master and mistress return, my man, tell them that General Ivolgin and Prince Muishkin desired to present themselves, and that they were extremely sorry, excessively grieved ...' Just then another person belonging to the household was seen at the back of the hall.
-- Well, I had a servant Nikifor who used to do everything for me in my quarters, economized and managed for me, and even laid hands on anything he could find (belonging to other people), in order to augment our household goods; but a faithful, honest fellow all the same.
-- She had children, a husband and family, friends and relations; her household was busy and cheerful; she was surrounded by smiling faces; and then suddenly they are gone, and she is left alone like a solitary fly ... like a fly, cursed with the -burden of her age.
-- We may mention that Gania was no longer mentioned in the Epanchin household any more than the prince was; but that a certain circumstance in connection with the fatal evening at Nastasia's house became known to the general, and, in fact, to all the family the very next day.
-- And again it became evident how very strong was the impression the young man had made in the household by his one visit there.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could imagine her sedately busy among her pots and pans, making a ritual of her household duties, so that they acquired a moral significance; I did not suppose that she was clever or could ever be amusing, but there was something in her grave intentness which excited my interest.
-- It was a dinner for a King when he brought in a huge dish of it, succulent with tomatoes, and we ate it together with the good household bread and a bottle of red wine.
-- I do not know why I had expected her to be somehow changed; she wore the same gray dress that she wore so often, neat and becoming, and her brow was as candid, her eyes as untroubled, as when I had been used to see her occupied with her household duties in the studio.
-- I suspected that for the figures had sat his household above Taravao, and the woman and the baby were Ata and his first son.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was watching enough, now, but it was the watching of strangers who made a greedy trade of it, and who, in the intervals in their attendance upon the sick man huddled together with a ghastly good-fellowship, and ate and drank and made merry; for disease and death were their ordinary household gods.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like household dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales, and touching them; till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly domesticated them.
-- To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But having gotten over these things in some measure, and having settled my household staff and habitation, made me a table and a chair, and all as handsome about me as I could, I began to keep my journal; of which I shall here give you the copy (though in it will be told all these particulars over again) as long as it lasted; for having no more ink, I was forced to leave it off.
-- And now, in the managing my household affairs, I found myself wanting in many things, which I thought at first it was impossible for me to make; as, indeed, with some of them it was: for in-stance, I could never make a cask to be hooped.
-- I was so much amazed with the thing itself, having never felt the like, nor discoursed with any one that had, that I was like one dead or stupefied; and the motion of the earth made my stomach sick, like one that was tossed at sea; but the noise of the falling of the rock awakened me, as it were, and rousing me from the stupefied condition I was in, filled me with horror; and I thought of nothing then but the hill falling upon my tent and all my household goods, and burying all at once; and this sunk my very soul within me a second time.
-- Besides these I always kept two or three household kids about me, whom I taught to feed out of my hand; and I had two more parrots, which talked pretty well, and would all call 'Robin Crusoe,' but none like my first; nor, indeed, did I take the pains with any of them that I had done with him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It chiefly consisted of household linen, plate, china, and books, with a handsome pianoforte of Marianne's.
-- Every thing in her household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the feelings of her young companions.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That worthy gave up just four dollars less toward the household expenses with a smile of satisfaction.
-- Just a shade of a thought of the hour entered Carrie's head, but there was no household law to govern her now.
-- Chapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER--FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESH The misfortune of the Hurstwood household was due to the fact that jealousy, having been born of love, did not perish with it.
-- The household would move along much more pleasantly without him, and she could do as she wished without consulting any one.
-- It increased a little, but he found he would have to watch his household expenses, which was humiliating.
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