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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed.
-- A flash of anger and disdain kindled in the eyes of the Unknown, and I had a glimpse of a terrible past in the life of this man.
-- "So, sir," I rejoined, "you give us simply the choice between life and death?"
-- It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
-- I owe all to the ocean; it produces electricity, and electricity gives heat, light, motion, and, in a word, life to the Nautilus."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands.
-- Why seek to draw a brand and a curse across the life that had caused the accident?
-- Is every man's life subject to pure accident, is it only the race, the genus, the species, that has a universal reference?
-- Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge?
-- You want a life of pure sensation and 'passion.'"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is strange,' I began, in the interval of swallowing one cup of tea and receiving another 'it is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff; yet, I'll venture to say, that, surrounded by your family, and with your amiable lady as the presiding genius over your home and heart My amiable lady!'
-- A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses: somebody must go,' murmured Mrs. Heathcliff, more kindly than I expected.
-- He must have had some ups and downs in life to make him such a churl.
-- I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.
-- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never saw in my life a more dreadful-looking figure.
-- But I am responsible for the ship's safety and the life of every man Jack aboard of her.
-- Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce persuade myself that murder had been actually done and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since before my eyes.
-- I'm risking my life and the lives of these good gentlemen every second."
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