nun是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 修女， 尼姑，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：
-- The preparations without doors had not been neglected either; a nun of great personal attractions was telling her beads on the little portico over the door; and a brigand with the blackest possible head of hair, and the clearest possible complexion, was at that moment going round the town in a cart, consulting the miniature of a lady.
-- Certain machinery in the body of the nun on the leads over the door was cleaned up and put in motion, so that the figure shook its head paralytically all day long, to the great admiration of a drunken, but very Protestant, barber over the way, who looked upon the said paralytic motion as typical of the degrading effect wrought upon the human mind by the ceremonies of the Romish Church and discoursed upon that theme with great eloquence and morality.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Don't use such dreadful expressions,' replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old maid lowered her eyes like a nun who sees a statue.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hewas staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family were Catholic, and the thought of his daughter becoming a nun waseven worse than that of her marrying Gerald O'Hara.
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