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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the sparrow; 'thy cruelty shall cost thee they life yet!'
-- But the sparrow began to 41flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter!it shall cost thee thy life yet!'
-- When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too 44 Grimms' Fairy Talesmight have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.
-- And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by cham-bermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
-- Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but, rising up in fury, said, he won-dered how the secretary durst presume to give his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggra-vation of your crimes; that you, who were able to extinguish the fire by discharge of urine in her majesty's apartment (which he mentioned with horror), might, at another time, raise an inundation by the same means, to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, might serve, upon the first discon-tent, to carry it back; that he had good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt-acts, so he accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you should be put to death.
-- But having in my life perused many state-trials, which I ever observed to terminate as the judges thought fit to direct, I durst not rely on so dangerous a decision, in so critical a juncture, and against such powerful enemies.
-- I now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain my curiosity, I returned gently down towards the creek; and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men al-ready got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an air of jaded sullenness in them both, and particularly in the girl: yet, struggling through the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination keeping life in itself somehow, which brightened its expression.
-- His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
-- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned.
-- It made me think, after all, how short my life would be, and how little I could hope to do in it.'
-- It hailed facts all day long so very hard, and life in general was opened to her as such a closely ruled ciphering-book, that assuredly she would have run away, but for only one restraint.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I began to enjoy the exhilarating delight of traveling, a life of desire, gratification and liberty.
-- I was presently, however, brought back to the realities of life by the arrival of the Professor and Hans, who joined me upon the lofty summit of the peak.
-- It was quite evident to me that we were ascending the scale of animal life of which man forms the summit.
-- Its action was felt even to the very topmost crust of the earth; the plants then in existence, being deprived of the vivifying rays of the sun, had neither buds, nor flowers, nor odor, but their roots drew a strong and vigorous life from the burning earth of early days.
-- But Hans appeared not to take the slightest interest in what was really a question of life and death for us all, but waited quite ready to obey the signal which should say go aloft, or to resume his desperate journey into the interior of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hold on life was marvellous.
-- Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
-- They came to start housekeeping and married life in the rather forlorn home of the Chatterleys on a rather inadequate income.
-- For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an ab-solute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom.
-- What else did a girl's life mean?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging was to plunge into a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade.
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