darling是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 心爱的人， 亲爱的，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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first I attempted to prevent her; but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands exclaimed, 'O God!I have murdered my darling child!'
-- You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet your presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations. Poor William!he was our darling and our pride!'
-- Our misfortune is doubly hard to us; we have not only lost that lovely darling boy, but this poor girl, whom I sincerely love, is to be torn away by even a worse fate.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wrapped in layers of tissue was a bonnet, a creationthat made her cry: "Oh, the darling thing!"
-- Their young brother Dallas was their darling and the only relative themaiden ladies had in the world.
-- What need had he for so many whenher darling Ashley rode in the rain with moisture dripping down his collar from the back of his cap?
-- Oh, Scarlett, I know my darling is dead!"
-- Scarlett struck a few chords and her voice floated out to them from the parlor, sweetly, sadly, in the words of apopular song: "Into a ward of whitewashed walls Where the dead and dying lay Wounded with bayonets, shells and balls Somebody's darling was borne one day.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remember!The blessed darling comes of no family, my dear Handel, and never looked into the red book, and hasn't a notion about her grandpapa.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He mourn'd for the fate of his darling mate, Well-a-day!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But as I was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix of the creation, so I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be groundless; for I already found my spirits re-vive, by the influence of her most august presence.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My darling boy!I am not to blame.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think it's a darling place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear father, loved father, darling of my heart!'
-- 'Ah!Don't be hard upon the Barnacles,' said Gowan, laughing afresh, 'they are darling fellows!Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead!And by Jupiter, with a kind of cleverness in him too that would astonish you!'
-- Of these, the first may have been that her son had never signified the smallest intention to ask her consent, or any mistrust of his ability to dispense with it; the second, that the pension bestowed upon her by a grateful country (and a Barnacle) would be freed from any little filial inroads, when her Henry should be married to the darling only child of a man in very easy circumstances; the third, that Henry's debts must clearly be paid down upon the altar-railing by his father-in-law.
-- 'I declare,' she sobbed, 'I never was so cut up since your mama and my papa not Doyce and Clennam for this once but give the precious little thing a cup of tea and make her put it to her lips at least pray Arthur do, not even Mr F.'s last illness for that was of another kind and gout is not a child's affection though very painful for all parties and Mr F. a martyr with his leg upon a rest and the wine trade in itself inflammatory for they will do it more or less among themselves and who can wonder, it seems like a dream I am sure to think of nothing at all this morning and now Mines of money is it really, but you must know my darling love because you never will be strong enough to tell him all about it upon teaspoons, mightn't it be even best to try the directions of my own medical man for though the flavour is anything but agreeable still I force myself to do it as a prescription and find the benefit, you'd rather not why no my dear I'd rather not but still I do it as a duty, everybody will congratulate you some in earnest and some not and many will congratulate you with all their hearts but none more so I do assure you from the bottom of my own I do myself though sensible of blundering and being stupid, and will be judged by Arthur not Doyce and Clennam for this once so good-bye darling and God bless you and may you be very happy and excuse the liberty, vowing that the dress shall never be finished by anybody else but shall be laid by for a keepsake just as it is and called Little Dorrit though why that strangest of denominations at any time I never did myself and now I never shall!'
-- 'My dearest, darling child, what necessity has he had, yet awhile, to say anything?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Another cat comes after her mice, A cat with a dirty face, But she does not hunt as our darling did, Nor play with her airy grace.
-- But it has blos-somed in the night, and now I mean to put it in my vase here, so that when the darling wakes, the first thing she sees will be the little rose, and Mother's face.'
-- With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One more,' pursued the beadle; 'compose your darling feelings for only one more.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne's ideas were still, at intervals, fixed incoherently on her mother, and whenever she mentioned her name, it gave a pang to the heart of poor Elinor, who, reproaching herself for having trifled with so many days of illness, and wretched for some immediate relief, fancied that all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long, and pictured to herself her suffering mother arriving too late to see this darling child, or to see her rational.
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