life是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生命， 生存； 一生， 寿命； 生活； 生物，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; amid the foliage of the weeping willows were herons, solemnly standing on one leg; and on every hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred, and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a suspicion in Elk Mills--now, in 1897, a dowdy red-brick village, smelling of apples-- that this brown-leather adjustable seat which Doc Vickerson used for minor operations, for the infrequent pulling of teeth and for highly frequent naps, had begun life as a barber's chair.
-- The purpose of life was chemistry and physics and the prospect of biology next year.
-- It was said that he could create life in the laboratory, that he could talk to the monkeys which he inoculated, that he had been driven out of Germany as a devil-worshiper or an anarchist, and that he secretly drank real champagne every evening at dinner.
-- "Of course I don't suppose it'll make any difference to a bunch of wise galoots like you that some day you'll marry a nice bright little woman and ruin her life with your vices.
-- In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful.
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：
-- Being the third in the row, I concluded I had only a few minutes of life before me.
-- The later years of his life were much softened by the tenderness and devo-tion of his second wife.
-- And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family芒聙娄.
-- I have noticed more than once in my life that husbands don't quite get on with their moth-ers-in- law, and I don't want to be the least bit in anyone's way, and for my own sake, too, would rather be quite inde-pendent, so long as I have a crust of bread of my own, and such children as you and Dounia.
-- No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and 芒聙娄 she is still the same, of course!Yes, there's no denying, the Svid-riga脙炉lovs are a bitter pill!It's a bitter thing to spend one's life a governess in the provinces for two hundred roubles, but I know she would rather be a nigger on a plantation or a Lett with a German master than degrade her soul, and her mor-al dignity, by binding herself for ever to a man whom she does not respect and with whom she has nothing in com-mon for her own advantage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 151I Begin life on My Own Account, and Don't Like ItCHAPTER XII .
-- 165Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a GreatResolutionCHAPTER XIII .
-- To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I recordthat I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday,at twelve o'clock at night.
-- There must be nomistakes in life with this Betsey Trotwood.
-- But there havebeen times since, in my manhood, many times there have been,when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities ofhidden things, that in the sudden rashness of the child and herwild look so far off, there was any merciful attraction of her intodanger, any tempting her towards him permitted on the part ofher dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending thatday.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matrimony, as the origin of change, was always dis-agreeable; and he was by no means yet reconciled to his own daughter's marrying, nor could ever speak of her but with compassion, though it had been entirely a match of affec-tion, when he was now obliged to part with Miss Taylor too; and from his habits of gentle selfishness, and of being never able to suppose that other people could feel differently from himself, he was very much disposed to think Miss Taylor had done as sad a thing for herself as for them, and would have been a great deal happier if she had spent all the rest of her life at Hartfield.
-- He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.
-- Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
-- A complete change of life became desirable.
-- He had still a small house in High-bury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had just reached the time of life at which "young" is ceasing to be the prefix of "man" in speaking of one.
-- The little speck of life he placed on a wisp of hay before the small stove, where a can of milk was simmering.
-- Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful.
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