fairy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 幻想中的； 虚构的； 优雅的n. 仙女； 精灵，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：
-- At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him 16 Grimms' Fairy Talessadly: and he dragged himself to the side of a river, that he might take a drink of water, and rest a while.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three mothers, and their eight or nine little children, who did the fairy business when required.
-- The lights in the great factories, which looked, when they were illuminated, like Fairy palaces or the travellers by express-train said so were all extinguished; and the bells had rung for knocking off for the night, and had ceased again; and the Hands, men and women, boy and girl, were clattering home.
-- NO WAY OUTThe Fairy palaces burst into illumination, before pale morning showed the monstrous serpents of smoke trailing themselves over Coketown.
-- She was gone by and by, and the day went after her, and the lights sprung up again, and the Express whirled in full sight of the Fairy Palace over the arches near: little felt amid the jarring of the machinery, and scarcely heard above its crash and rattle.
-- The atmosphere of those Fairy palaces was like the breath of the simoom: and their inhabitants, wasting with heat, toiled languidly in the desert.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We shall know what an immense deduction must be made from all the influences and experiences that have formed us no parents, no child-brother or sister, no individuality of home, no Glass Slipper, or Fairy Godmother.
-- On the other hand, he reasoned with himself that she was just as good and just as true in love with him, as not in love with him; and that to make a kind of domesticated fairy of her, on the penalty of isolation at heart from the only people she knew, would be but a weakness of his own fancy, and not a kind one.
-- But, when she told him that it was only a Fairy Tale she had one day made up for Maggy, and that there was nothing in it which she wouldn't be ashamed to tell again to anybody else, even if she could remember it, he left the subject where it was.
-- Among the day's unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on trees for many miles; woods of olives; white villages and towns on hill-sides, lovely without, but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of beautiful forms; vast piles of building mouldering to dust; hanging-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, with the lizards running into and out of every chink; beggars of all sorts everywhere: pitiful, picturesque, hungry, merry; children beggars and aged beggars.
-- This Mr Dorrit (his name is Dorrit) had incurred a responsibility to us, ages before the fairy came out of the Bank and gave him his fortune, under a bond he had signed for the performance of a contract which was not at all performed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Mother doesn't wish you to go this week, be-cause your eyes are not well enough yet to bear the light of this fairy piece.
-- The fairy queen's yellow curls reminded her of Amy, and between the acts she amused herself with wondering what her sister would do to make her 'sorry for it'.
-- It was only half a dozen little fairy tales, but Jo had worked over them patiently, putting her whole heart into her work, hoping to make something good enough to print.
-- asked a gallant trou-badour of the fairy queen who floated down the hall upon his arm.
-- She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, to choose a wholly unsubstantial instance, purely addressed to the fancy, why, in reading the old fairy tales of Central Europe, does "the tall pale man" of the Hartz forests, whose changeless pallor unrustlingly glides through the green of the groves why is this phantom more terrible than all the whooping imps of the Blocksburg?
-- "No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil's claws must have left their mouldings there since yesterday," murmured Starbuck to himself, leaning against the bulwarks.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such childish fancies as she had had of fairy palaces and kingly quarters now came back.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked the Falcon, bending his beak in deep reverence (for it must be known that, after all, the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair was none other than a very kind Fairy who had lived, for more than a thousand years, in the vicinity of the forest).
-- The Fairy clapped her hands twice.
-- "Come, Medoro," said the Fairy to him.
-- the Fairy asked the Talking Cricket.
-- As soon as the three doctors had left the room, the Fairy went to Pinocchio's bed and, touching him on the forehead, noticed that he was burning with fever.
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