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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
-- He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.
-- that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimo-ny to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- I expected every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such mis-eries as these any more.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Fifteen years!my dear Fanny; her life cannot be worth half that purchase."
-- I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
-- It is yet too early in life to despair of such a happiness.
-- With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
-- She was perfectly disposed to make every allowance for the colonel's advanced state of life which humanity required.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Particularly if it be evening--that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the world when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another.
-- The fact that she was alone, away from home, rushing into a great sea of life and endeavour, began to tell.
-- She was now a thin, though rugged, woman of twenty- seven, with ideas of life coloured by her husband's, and fast hardening into narrower conceptions of pleasure and duty than had ever been hers in a thoroughly circumscribed youth.
-- Her mere experience and the free out-of-door life of the country caused her nature to revolt at such confinement.
-- She now felt that life was better, that it was livelier, sprightlier.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Watchman your grandmother,' I says; 'there ain't noth-ing to watch but the texas and the pilot- house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pi-lot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?'
-- I ain't as rich as old Jim Hornback, and I can't be so blame' gener- ous and good to Tom, Dick, and Harry as what he is, and slam around money the way he does; but I've told him a many a time 't I wouldn't trade places with him; for, says I, a sailor's life's the life for me, and I'm derned if I'D live two mile out o' town, where there ain't nothing ever goin' on, not for all his spon- dulicks and as much more on top of it.
-- He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before.
-- His hands was long and thin, and every day of his life he put on a clean shirt and a full suit from head to foot made out of linen so white it hurt your eyes to look at it; and on Sundays he wore a blue tail-coat with brass buttons on it.
-- This ain't no bad thing that we've struck here plenty grub and an easy life come, give us your hand, duke, and le's all be friends.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bad, very bad!In this world, even as children, we must accustom ourselves to eat of everything, for we never know what life may hold in store for us!"
-- My dear, we never know what life may have in store for us!"
-- After all, the life of a Marionette has grown very tiresome to me and I want to become a boy, no matter how hard it is.
-- The day promised to be a very gay and happy one, but-- Unluckily, in a Marionette's life there's always a BUT which is apt to spoil everything.
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