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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not in the least alter the actual state of the case; so not a word was said, and after answering all Miss Grant's questions, Lady Helena began to interrogate in her turn, asking her about her past life and her present circumstances.
-- "I mean this, that we ought to think ourselves fortunate if we can begin our married life with a good action.
-- I have played all my life on my father's ships.
-- Certainly, if any thing could have surprised him, this RENCONTRE would, for he had never seen the stranger in his life before.
-- "To Jacques Eliacin Francois Marie Paganel, Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Societies of Berlin, Bombay, Darmstadt, Leipsic, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the Royal Geographical and Ethnographical Institute of the East Indies; who, after having spent twenty years of his life in geographical work in the study, wishes to see active service, and is on his way to India to gain for the science what information he can by following up the footsteps of great travelers."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It ran: 'As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.'
-- 'You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.'
-- 'I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting.'
-- 'I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.
-- But I hope that to lose one of your boots is not part of the ordinary rou-tine of life over here.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to age, General Epanchin was in the very prime of life; that is, about fifty-five years of age, the flowering time ofexistence, when real enjoyment of life begins.
-- 'The pleasure is, of course, mutual; but life is not all plea-sure, as you are aware.
-- Evidently the quiet, pleasant current of the family life of the Epanchins was about to undergo a change.
-- She did not care for a brilliant marriage; she was emi-nently a woman calculated to soothe and sweeten the life of any man; decidedly pretty, if not absolutely handsome.
-- In the house there were two experienced maids, musical instruments of all sorts, a charming 'young lady's library,' pictures, paint-boxes, a lapdog, and everything to make life agreeable.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying: 'Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early.
-- All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.'
-- Alexandrus quailed as he saw Menelaus come forward, and shrank in fear of his life under cover of his men.
-- The horses started aside for fear, and he was reft of life and strength.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand!The huge multitude!Cheated!All my life it may take me!..
-- And in the ponds too!All those little pond- life things specks of colourless translucent jelly!But in air?
-- And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my life to this.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Pinocchio, nodding his wooden head, as if to say, "It's the kind of life which would agree with me perfectly."
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