stranger是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 陌生人， 生客； 外地人， 外国人，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Today I'll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I'll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition.
-- I had a strong hope, which never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty: and as to the ignominy of being carried about for a monster, I con-sidered myself to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I should return to England, since the king of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have under-gone the same distress.
-- There is indeed a perpetual commerce between this king-dom and the great empire of Japan; and it is very probable, that the Japanese authors may have given some account of the struldbrugs; but my stay in Japan was so short, and I was so entirely a stranger to the language, that I was not qualified to make any inquiries.
-- Upon the whole, the behaviour of these animals was so orderly and rational, so acute and judicious, that I at last 284 Gulliver's Travelsconcluded they must needs be magicians, who had thus metamorphosed themselves upon some design, and see-ing a stranger in the way, resolved to divert themselves with him; or, perhaps, were really amazed at the sight of a man so very different in habit, feature, and complexion, from those who might probably live in so remote a climate.
-- And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, mus-kets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses' feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, 313and destroying.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- You have been listening to some mischievous stranger or other they're always about and the best thing you can do is, to come out of that.
-- 'What a stranger can want at the Bank at this time of the evening, unless he comes upon some business for which he is too late, I don't know,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'but I hold a charge in this establishment from Mr. Bounderby, and I will never shrink from it.
-- The stranger seemed a little more fatigued than before.
-- The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends.
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：
-- But the stranger knew.
-- Seems 'e's almost a stranger to 'er, fair a stranger, and I don't think they're two as'd hit it off very easy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two tables put together in a corner, were, at length, converted into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons and repose.
-- As they eyed the stranger in passing, they eyed him with borrowing eyes hungry, sharp, speculative as to his softness if they were accredited to him, and the likelihood of his standing something handsome.
-- Mr Cripples's pupils, who were by this time coming to school, desisted from their morning recreation of cuffing one another with bags and books, to stare with all the eyes they had at a stranger who had been to see Dirty Dick.
-- 'Allow me to observe that I have been for some years in China, am quite a stranger at home, and have no personal motive or interest in the inquiry I am about to make.'
-- Excuse me; I am a stranger in England.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hope the next will end better,' muttered Jo, who found it very hard to see Meg absorbed in a stranger before her face, for Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
-- Stranger things have happened,' thought Jo, as she fussed about the room.
-- Don't let John be a stranger to the babies, for they will do more to keep him safe and happy in this world of trial and temptation than anything else, and through them you will learn to know and love one anoth-er as you should.
-- If the stranger had any doubts about his reception, they were set at rest in a minute by the cordial welcome he re-ceived.
-- Everyone was a friend, and she offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor re-lented, and baby-lovers became faithful worshipers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
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