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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But going along the High Street, my old life came back to me for a space, for I met the girl I had known ten years since.
-- CHAPTER XXII IN THE EMPORIUM "So last January, with the beginning of a snowstorm in the air about me and if it settled on me it would betray me! weary, cold, painful, inexpressibly wretched, and still but half convinced of my invisible quality, I began this new life to which I am committed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke like a man who had loved his life there, and had been suddenly and irrevocably cut off from it.
-- He tried to draw me into a discus-sion about alcohol, professing to have saved my life with it.
-- He seemed anxious to lay stress on the fact that I owed my life to him.
-- I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.
-- To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'O Akela, and ye the Free People,' he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly, but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price.
-- Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mow-gli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
-- It is certain that I must die, and my life is of no worth, or I would offer that in the man-cub's place.
-- Then something began to hurt Mowgli inside him, as he had never been hurt in his life before, and he caught his breath and sobbed, and the tears ran down his face.
-- So Mowgli sat and cried as though his heart would break; and he had never cried in all his life before.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chances of a soldier's life are but little fitted for the -encouragement of more sober inclinations.'
-- A rifle bullet acts on a run-ning animal, when it barks him, much the same as one of your spurs on a horse; that is, it quickens motion, and puts life into the flesh, instead of taking it away.
-- 'Is life grievous to you?'
-- 'When men struggle for the single life God has given them,' said the scout, sternly, 'even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
-- The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly ex-pressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that -ingenious way which is commonly denominated 'by hook and by crook,' the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the la-bor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
-- No signs of life oc-curred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bull-frog from a neighboring marsh, as if sleeping uncomfortably and turn-ing suddenly in his bed.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- Maurice Huret in his famous article gave an outline of Charles Strickland's life which was well calculated to whet the appetites of the inquiring.
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
-- It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family.
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