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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert Strickland has "interpreted" all the facts in his father's life which a dutiful son might find it inconvenient to remember must surely lead him in the fullness of time to the highest dignities of the Church.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
-- In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death.
-- When Neb heard that his master had been made prisoner, he left Massachusetts without hesitating an instant, arrived before Richmond, and by dint of stratagem and shrewdness, after having risked his life twenty times over, managed to penetrate into the besieged town.
-- Certainly the boy had never in all his life been so nervous.
-- Sleep at last took possession of Pencroft, whom a seafaring life had habituated to anything.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it!Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.
-- Ah!It's a weary life for an old man a weary, weary life but there is a great end to gain and that I keep before me.'
-- 'Bah!You would swear away my life if you could,' returned the other, after bestowing a stare and a frown on me; 'we all know that!'
-- How often am I to tell you that my life is one of care and self-denial, and that I am poor?'
-- 'And yet,' said the old man dropping his voice and speaking like one who thinks aloud, 'how poor we are, and what a life it is!The cause is a young child's guiltless of all harm or wrong, but nothing goes well with it!Hope and patience, hope and patience!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was wooed, but would marry no one, feeling that life with any one of her wooers would be hard, spoiled, as she was, more or less, by the comparative ease she enjoyed in the manor.
-- Thenceforward life ceased to have any charms for her, and her only thought was to escape the shame which awaited her, and not only did she become lax in her duties, but--and she did not know herself how it happened--all of a sudden she gave vent to her ill temper.
-- She offered Maslova work as a washerwoman, but seeing what a hard life the washerwomen at her aunt's establishment were leading, she searched through the intelligence offices for a position as servant.
-- A week after she had entered upon her duties, the oldest son neglected his studies and made life miserable for Maslova.
-- She looked with compassion on the life of drudgery led by these pale, emaciated washerwomen, some of whom showed symptoms of consumption, washing and ironing in a stifling, steam-laden atmosphere with the windows open summer and winter, and she was horrified at the thought that she, too, might be driven to such drudgery.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The work of ameliorating the conditions of life the true civilising process that makes life more and more secure had gone steadily on to a climax.
-- In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
-- For the life of me I could not imagine.
-- Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.
-- The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
-- She thought that in all her life she had never seen soldiers so uncertain on their feet: they were always tripping over something or other, and whenever one went down, several more always fell over him, so that the ground was soon covered with little heaps of men.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
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