parent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 父母， 母亲； (pl. ) 双亲； 父母，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water had risen to the top of the trunk, just to where the parent branches fork out.
-- At the very height of this struggle of the electric forces of the atmosphere, a large ball of fire appeared suddenly at the extremity of the horizontal parent branch, as thick as a man's wrist, and surrounded with black smoke.
-- Was this idolized parent still in existence?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogi-tated.
-- Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling, Young Jerry, keeping as close to house fronts, walls, and doorways, as his eyes were close to one another, held his honoured parent in view.
-- The honoured parent steering Northward, had not gone far, when he was joined by another disciple of Izaak Walton, and the two trudged on together.
-- Presently the honoured parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great corkscrew.
-- Young Jer-ry very well knew what it would be; but, when he saw it, and saw his honoured parent about to wrench it open, he was so frightened, being new to the sight, that he made off again, and never stopped until he had run a mile or more.
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：
-- 'Not in the slightest, and indeed it's an absurdity!I merely hinted at her obtaining temporary assistance as the widow of an official who had died in the service if only she has patronage 芒聙娄 but apparently your late parent had not served his full term and had not indeed been in the service at all of late.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent toevery child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that familyas dearly as I love them.
-- 'He is the parent of my children!He is the father of my twins!He is the husband of my affections,' cried Mrs. Micawber, struggling; 'and I ne- ver- will- desert Mr.
-- 'And therefore it is,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'that I the more wish,that, at a future period, we may live again on the parent soil.
-- '-Or to Mrs. Crewler- it would be the utmost gratification of mywishes, to be a parent to the girls.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seems every thing the fondest parent could芒聙娄.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It hardly was credible that such a heavenly light could be the parent of such a diabolical sound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I really thought he was still speaking of the fowl, until he added, "Because I have got an aged parent at my place."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confu-sion, and horror.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And there, Mr Pancks, (destined to be chief clerk to Doyce and Clennam, and afterwards partner in the house), sinking the Incendiary in the peaceful friend, looked in at the door to see it done, with Flora gallantly supported on one arm and Maggy on the other, and a back-ground of John Chivery and father and other turnkeys who had run round for the moment, deserting the parent Marshalsea for its happy child.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He's a born Weller,' laughed Jo, as her parent gathered himself up, and her nephew tried to stand on his head, as the only mode of expressing his satisfaction that school was over.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
-- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.
-- Lucy, who was hardly less anxious to please one parent than the other, thought the boys were both remarkably tall for their age, and could not conceive that there could be the smallest difference in the world between them; and Miss Steele, with yet greater address gave it, as fast as she could, in favour of each.
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