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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gerald wanted her to be attached to the household at Shortlands, he was using Winifred as his stalking-horse.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt my heels and coat laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re establishing peace.
-- The household went to bed; and I, too, anxious to lie down, opened my lattice and put my head out to hearken, though it rained: determined to admit them in spite of the prohibition, should they return.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was happy to show her gratitude to the kind schoolmaster by busying herself in the performance of such household duties as his little cottage stood in need of.
-- The meal finished, Nell assisted to wash the cups and saucers, and put them in their proper places, and these household duties performed, Mrs Jarley arrayed herself in an exceedingly bright shawl for the purpose of making a progress through the streets of the town.
-- And let me linger in this place, for an instant, to remark that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor.
-- His household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stone; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart; and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of rags and toil and scanty fare, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place.
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