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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wish ... to visit Madame Terentieff, the widow of Captain Terentieff, my old subordinate and friend.
-- I was quartered at an old widow's house, a lieutenant's widow of eighty years of age.
-- As for the theft, he may have heard of it from the widow in Petersburg, for if the old man com-mitted himself to such an act, he can have done it for no other object but to give the money to her.
-- Hippolyte said to me, without any prelude, that the general had promised the widow four hundred roubles.
-- XII HEN the widow hurried away to Pavlofsk, she went Wstraight to Daria Alexeyevna's house, and telling all she knew, threw her into a state of great alarm.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are now going into the house of Hades under the secret places of the earth, and you leave me a sorrow-ing widow in your house.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You shall not be a widow long.'
-- 'The widow will never come out again.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. MacAndrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strickland; and by the look of the house and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest comfort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and yet for some hidden reason they were all angry with the widow, and each lady whispered in her neighbour's ear that it was very plain that said widow thought herself the person referred to, and what a puss she was!
-- Kit made answer, not without some indignation, that she was a widow with three children, and that as to her marrying again, if the gentleman knew her he wouldn't think of such a thing.
-- You were a widow in anticipation.
-- A poor widow struggling to maintain her orphans in decency and comfort, is a delicious picture of human goodness. Put down your hat, Kit.'
-- Patient, and upheld by strong affection to the last, she died a widow of some three weeks' date, leaving to her father's care two orphans; one a son of ten or twelve years old; the other a girl such another infant child the same in helplessness, in age, in form, in feature as she had been herself when her young mother died.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 8Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure.
-- Your sister need not have any scruple even of visiting HER, which, to say the truth, has been a little the case, and very naturally; for we only knew that Mrs. Jennings was the widow of a man who had got all his money in a low way; and Fanny and Mrs. Ferrars were both strongly prepossessed, that neither she nor her daughters were such kind of women as Fanny would like to associate with.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt Pol- ly Tom's Aunt Polly, she is and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
-- The Widow Doug- las she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, con- sidering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
-- But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respect-able.
-- The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
-- The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
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