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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- At last they got to the theatre, which was Astley's: and in some two minutes after they had reached the yet unopened door, little Jacob was squeezed flat, and the baby had received divers concussions, and Barbara's mother's umbrella had been carried several yards off and passed back to her over the shoulders of the people, and Kit had hit a man on the head with the handkerchief of apples for 'scrowdging' his parent with unnecessary violence, and there was a great uproar.
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：
-- How could he be the parent of Ursula, when he was not created himself.
-- "But it's a damnably uncomfortable love: like a love for an aged parent who suffers horribly from a complication of diseases, for which there is no hope."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By no means,' returned Heyward, anxious to recall his error, if he had made one; 'the white man may, and does often, forget the burial place of his fathers; he sometimes ceases to remember those he should love, and has promised to cherish; but the affection of a parent for his child is never permitted to die.'
-- 'Heyward,' she said, looking him full in the face with a touching expression of innocence and dependency, 'give me the sacred presence and the holy sanction of that parent before you urge me further.'
-- Thither Tamenund also retired, with calm composure, after a short and touching interview with Un-cas; from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child.
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