species是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生物的种; 种类，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：
-- If your business necessitated your seeing 'the House,' you were put into a species of Condemned Hold at the back, where you meditated on a misspent life, until the House came with its hands in its pockets, and you could hardly blink at it in the dismal twilight.
-- Similar-ly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some per-sons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind.
-- * * * * 'The other patient lay in a back room across a second staircase, which was a species of loft over a stable.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the inte-rior of the burdock forest?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter V. IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS, UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN, APPEARS ON 'CHANGEPhileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation at the West End.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They ventured countryward, and lent their fleas to a species of ground squirrels which were plentiful about the village of Carib.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood's had begun to be a troublesome image a species of Daniel in her kingdom who persisted in kneeling eastward when reason and common sense said that he might just as well follow suit with the rest, and afford her the official glance of admiration which cost nothing at all.
-- Upon the whole, the door seemed to advertise itself as a species of Traitor's Gate translated to another sphere.
-- Travellers for the variety tourist had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.
-- From her feet, and between the beautiful yellowing ferns with their feathery arms, the ground sloped downwards to a hollow, in which was a species of swamp, dotted with fungi.
-- Up the sides of this depression grew sheaves of the common rush, and here and there a peculiar species of flag, the blades of which glistened in the emerging sun, like scythes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This young man of fashion, species incerta, did not know that there were two Hotels Beauseant; he was not aware how rich he was in relations who did not care about him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.
-- A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
-- My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.
-- Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympa-thies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a con-dition precarious and full of terror.
-- My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I always treated him as a larger species of child, and as no more than my equal.
-- Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast.
-- So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
-- I think he was a species of purser."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consid-er, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corrup-tions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my in- tentions.
-- He said 'it was very reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages; which, as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it has been confirmed by huge bones and skulls, casually dug up in several parts of the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of men in our days.'
-- This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by.
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