childhood是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 幼年， 童年，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I know that, as in her childhood she had no parent, so she is now devoted to you with all the constancy and fervour of her present years and character, united to the trustfulness and attachment of the early days in which you were lost to her.
-- Sydney turned his eyes again upon the fire, and, after a silence of a few moments, said: 'I should like to ask you: Does your childhood seem far off?
-- But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The memories of childhood and of Levin's friendship with her dead brother gave a special poetic charm to her relations with him.
-- That mist which covers everything in that blissful time when childhood is just ending, and out of that vast circle, happy and gay, there is a path growing narrower and narrower, and it is delightful and alarming to enter the ballroom, bright and splendid as it is.... Who has not been through it?"
-- he repeated to himself incessantly, feeling, in spite of his long and, as it seemed, complete alienation from religion, that he turned to God just as trustfully and simply as he had in his childhood and first youth.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was at the end of her hesitating effort to make him see her childhood that he cried, "Darling, you don't have to tell me about you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dreamt he was back in his childhood in the little town of his birth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 251CHAPTER XVIIIA RetrospectMY school-days!The silent gliding on of my existence- the unseen,unfelt progress of my life- from childhood up to youth!Let methink, as I look back upon that flowing water, now a dry channelovergrown with leaves, whether there are any marks along itscourse, by which I can remember how it ran.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.
-- The whole effect resembled a sunset as childhood resembles age.
-- An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The illusions of childhood had vanished, so also had the ideas he brought with him from the provinces; he had returned thither with an intelligence developed, with loftier ambitions, and saw things as they were at home in the old manor house.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself.
-- Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the com-panions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenthbirthday.
-- She knew thatfrom childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married.
-- If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-temperedsoldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he hadbeen reared.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suffered unspeakable trouble while I considered and reconsidered whether I should at last dissolve that spell of my childhood and tell Joe all the story.
-- In some of her looks and gestures there was that tinge of resemblance to Miss Havisham which may often be noticed to have been acquired by children, from grown person with whom they have been much associated and secluded, and which, when childhood is passed, will produce a remarkable occasional likeness of expression between faces that are otherwise quite different.
-- I consumed the whole time in thinking how strange it was that I should be encompassed by all this taint of prison and crime; that, in my childhood out on our lonely marshes on a winter evening, I should have first encountered it; that, it should have reappeared on two occasions, starting out like a stain that was faded but not gone; that, it should in this new way pervade my fortune and advancement.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
-- Not that they knew, by name or nature, anything about an Ogre Fact forbid!I only use the word to express a monster in a lecturing castle, with Heaven knows how many heads manipulated into one, taking childhood captive, and dragging it into gloomy statistical dens by the hair.
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