grandfather是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 祖父； 外祖父，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：
-- Little Lucie sat by her grandfather with her hands clasped through his arm: and he, in a tone not rising much above a whisper, began to tell her a story of a great and powerful Fairy who had opened a prison-wall and let out a captive who had once done the Fairy a service.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew that he and his father and his grandfather had done the very same thing hundreds of times before.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just as incontestably as it was necessary to repay a debt was it necessary to keep the property in such a condition that his son, when he received it as a heritage, would say "thank you" to his father as Levin had said "thank you" to his grandfather for all he built and planted.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My tribe is the grandfather of nations, but I am an un-mixed man.
-- 'Ay, that does he, and all for the sake of what you call your 'bonhommie' I would venture, if the truth was known, the fellow's grandfather taught the noble science of dancing.'
-- he said, 'my race upholds the earth!Your feeble tribe stands on my shell!What fire that a Delaware can light would burn the child of my fathers,' he added, pointing proudly to the simple blazonry on his skin; 'the blood that came from such a stock would smother your flames!My race is the grandfather of na-tions!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Gwilliam came from one of the best families in her section of New Jersey; her father was a lawyer and a church-warden, her grandfather had been a solid farmer.
-- To work, staggering sleepy, all night, to drowse on a bare table at dawn and to breakfast at a greasy lunch-counter, these were natural and amusing, but to explain to Joyce why he had missed her dinner to a lady sculptor and a lawyer whose grandfather had been a Confederate General, this was impossible.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For don't you see,' said Mr. Omer,touching me with his pipe, 'it ain't likely that a man so short ofbreath as myself, and a grandfather too, would go and strain pointswith a little bit of a blue-eyed blossom, like her?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should a grandson and grandfather peg away at each other with mutual wiolence when all might be bliss and concord.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My father and my grandfather were old men of the name of Gabriel," said the shepherd, placidly.
-- "Knowed yer grandfather for years and years!"
-- "Cainy's grandfather was a very clever man," said Matthew Moon.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Beauseant's grandfather on the mother's side.
-- cried the Count, her husband, "this gentleman's family estate is not far from Verteuil, on the Charente; his great-uncle and my grandfather were acquainted."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother saysit's because their grandfather came from Virginia.
-- Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above somemysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His son and his son's wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as to that infa-mous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to ob-serve, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Grandfather is out, so you needn't be afraid,' said Laurie, getting up.
-- She wished Beth could hear him, but she did not say so, only praised him till he was quite abashed, and his grandfather came to his rescue.
-- They both died when Laurie was a little child, and then his grandfather took him home.
-- Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician.
-- 'Grandfather and Napoleon.'
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