widow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 寡妇，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stryver was rich; had married a florid widow with property and three boys, who had nothing particularly shining about them but the straight hair of their dumpling heads.
-- Therefore when the President said (else had his own head quivered on his shoulders), that the good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of the Republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of Aristocrats, and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan, there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy.
-- It was nothing to her, that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punish-ment, because they were her natural enemies and her prey, and as such had no right to live.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The petitioner, the widow of a staff captain Kalinin, came with a request impossible and unreasonable; but Stepan Arkadyevitch, as he generally did, made her sit down, heard her to the end attentively without interrupting her, and gave her detailed advice as to how and to whom to apply, and even wrote her, in his large, sprawling, good and legible hand, a confident and fluent little note to a personage who might be of use to her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several years ago, when I was living at Bombay, a young widow asked permission of the governor to be burned along with her husband's body; but, as you may imagine, he refused.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He learned, before evening, that she was Joyce Lanyon, widow of Roger Lanyon of New York.
-- In his cups, though he severely retained his moral and elegant vocabulary, Clif chronicled the jest of selling oil-wells unprovided with oil and of escaping before the law closed in; the cleverness of joining churches for the purpose of selling stock to the members; and the edifying experience of assisting Dr. Benoni Carr to capture a rich and senile widow for his sanitarium by promising to provide medical consultation from the spirit-world.
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：
-- She was a widow when I married her, with three children, one smaller than the other.
-- Here, an I O U for a hundred and fifteen roubles, legally attested, and due for payment, has been brought us for recovery, given by you to the widow of the assessor Zarnitsyn, nine months ago, and paid over by the widow Zarnitsyn to one Mr. Tchebarov.
-- 'And did you hear, Nikolay, that on the same day Widow So-and-so and her sister were murdered and robbed?'
-- She's a widow now, in consumption, a poor creature 芒聙娄 three little children, starving 芒聙娄 nothing in the house 芒聙娄 there's a daughter, too 芒聙娄 perhaps you'd have given it yourself if you'd seen them.
-- You gave your last penny to the widow for the funeral.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in the privacyof my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly werean orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different timesadopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute; and thatMrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who haddied very poor.
-- 'You are the Mr. Murdstone whomarried the widow of my late nephew, David Copperfield, ofBlunderstone Rookery?
-- Here,established in perpetuity, is the poor Beauty, a widow with a littlegirl; here, at dinner on Sophy's birthday, are the three married girlswith their three husbands, and one of the husband's brothers, andanother husband's cousin, and another husband's sister, whoappears to me to be engaged to the cousin.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and qua-drille.
-- Fairfax of the regiment of in-fantry, and Miss Jane Bates, had had its day of fame and pleasure, hope and interest; but nothing now remained of it, save the melancholy remembrance of him dying in ac-tion abroad of his widow sinking under consumption and grief soon afterwards and this girl.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then, in a religious sense you will be as free to think o' marrying again as any real widow of one year's standing.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer and her lodgers; every year the widow trembles for her vintage.
-- A moment later the widow shows her face; she is tricked out in a net cap attached to a false front set on awry, and shuffles into the room in her slipshod fashion.
-- Still, "she is a good woman at bottom," said the lodgers who believed that the widow was wholly dependent upon the money that they paid her, and sympathized when they heard her cough and groan like one of themselves.
-- Couture, the widow of a commissary-general in the service of the Republic.
-- Unluckily, the widow of the commissary-general to the armies of the Republic had nothing in the world but her jointure and her widow's pension, and some day she might be obliged to leave the helpless, inexperienced girl to the mercy of the world.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third.
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