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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During his childhood and his boyhood he had wanted a sort of savagedom.
-- They were hideous and sordid, during his childhood they had been sores in his consciousness.
-- The great chasm of memory from her childhood in the intimate country surroundings of Cossethay and the Marsh Farm she remembered the servant Tilly, who used to give her bread and butter sprinkled with brown sugar, in the old living-room where the grandfather clock had two pink roses in a basket painted above the figures on the face and now when she was travelling into the unknown with Birkin, an utter stranger was so great, that it seemed she had no identity, that the child she had been, playing in Cossethay churchyard, was a little creature of history, not really herself.
-- She wanted to have come down from the slopes of heaven to this place, with Birkin, not to have toiled out of the murk of her childhood and her upbringing, slowly, all soiled.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also said that from childhood she had felt an aversion for the life of the gentry, but loved the common folks, and was often chidden for staying in the servants' quarters, the kitchen and the stable, instead of the parlor.
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