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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was food for great regret with him; it was also a contretemps which touched into life a latent heat he had experienced in that direction.
-- He regarded the red berries between them over and over again, to such an extent, that holly seemed in his after life to be a cypher signifying a proposal of marriage.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The unwholesome corpulence of the little woman is produced by the life she leads, just as typhus fever is bred in the tainted air of a hospital.
-- His bequest to her, a life annuity of a thousand francs, was periodically disputed by his heirs, who mingled slander with their persecutions.
-- If the delightful excitement of a ball had made the pale face glow with color; if the delights of a luxurious life had brought the color to the wan cheeks that were slightly hollowed already; if love had put light into the sad eyes, then Victorine might have ranked among the fairest; but she lacked the two things which create woman a second time--pretty dresses and love-letters.
-- His habit of life was very regular; he usually went out after breakfast, returning in time for dinner, and disappeared for the rest of the evening, letting himself in about midnight with a latch key, a privilege that Mme.
-- Possibly it was the careless generosity with which Father Goriot allowed himself to be overreached at this period of his life (they called him Monsieur Goriot very respectfully then) that gave Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.
-- I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.
-- But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.
-- As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.
-- From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton wasstill new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, a little crude.
-- I've never gotten so tired of any one wordin my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.'
-- It was a memorable day in the life of the twins.
-- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting,gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that thesepleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.
-- But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired itslook of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
-- I had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.
-- The same opportunity served me for noticing that Mr. Pumblechook appeared to conduct his business by looking across the street at the saddler, who appeared to transact his business by keeping his eye on the coachmaker, who appeared to get on in life by putting his hands in his pockets and contemplating the baker, who in his turn folded his arms and stared at the grocer, who stood at his door and yawned at the chemist.
-- There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on Saturdays than at other times.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was thankful to the fox, and did not attempt his life as his brothers had done; so the fox said, 'Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster.'
-- said the cat, 'how can one 23be in good spirits when one's life is in danger?
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