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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One has only to remember one's own childhood to admit the truth of this.
-- What was this grand, eternal pageant to which he had yearned from his childhood up, and in which he could never take part?
-- Ptitsin will cer-tainly have his reward, not three houses, but four, precisely because from childhood up he had realized that he would never be a Rothschild.
-- To serve her brother's interests, Varvara Ardalionovna was constantly at the Epanchins' house, helped by the fact that in childhood she and Gania had played with General Ivan Fedorovitch's daughters.
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：
-- He told me of his childhood in the tidy brick house, and of his mother's passionate orderliness.
-- They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the cheap delights of childhood must be bought and paid for.'
-- For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
-- In the pale moonlight, which lent a wanness of its own to the delicate face where thoughtful care already mingled with the winning grace and loveliness of youth, the too bright eye, the spiritual head, the lips that pressed each other with such high resolve and courage of the heart, the slight figure firm in its bearing and yet so very weak, told their silent tale; but told it only to the wind that rustled by, which, taking up its burden, carried, perhaps to some mother's pillow, faint dreams of childhood fading in its bloom, and resting in the sleep that knows no waking.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of her childhood and youth, and especially of her love for Nekhludoff, she never thought.
-- He had lived on the estate in his childhood and youth, and had also twice visited it in his manhood, once when, upon the request of his mother, he brought a German manager with whom he went over the affairs of the estate.
-- Nekhludoff loved her, and since childhood had been accustomed to get infected with her energy and cheerfulness.
-- In childhood he had fallen in with a gang of thieves, but he possessed a humorous vein which attracted people to him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out.
-- Herself again a wife a mother lovingly watchful of her children, ever careful that they should have a childhood of the mind no less than a childhood of the body, as knowing it to be even a more beautiful thing, and a possession, any hoarded scrap of which, is a blessing and happiness to the wisest?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It struck its breast as it came on smelling and sniffing, reminding me of the stories we read in our early childhood of giants who ate the Flesh of men and little boys!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through this little gate, she passed out of childhood into the care-laden world.
-- As the fierce dark teaching of his childhood had never sunk into his heart, so that first article in his code of morals was, that he must begin, in practical humility, with looking well to his feet on Earth, and that he could never mount on wings of words to Heaven.
-- O Mrs General, Mrs General, ask me, her father, what I owe her; and hear my testimony touching the life of this slighted little creature from her childhood up!
-- My childhood was passed with a grandmother; that is to say, with a lady who represented that relative to me, and who took that title on herself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up in the garret, where Jo's un-quiet wanderings ended stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owners name, and each filled with relics of the childhood and girlhood ended now for all.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names a singularly common fashion on the island and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.
-- "I have heard," murmured Starbuck, gazing down the scuttle, "that in violent fevers, men, all ignorance, have talked in ancient tongues; and that when the mystery is probed, it turns out always that in their wholly forgotten childhood those ancient tongues had been really spoken in their hearing by some lofty scholars.
-- Oh, immortal infancy, and innocency of the azure!Invisible winged creatures that frolic all round us!Sweet childhood of air and sky!how oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe!But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.
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