brother是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 兄弟； 同胞； 教友，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's not as you think!There's not a trace of - anything of the sort, brother 芒聙娄!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is your brother an agreeableman, Peggotty?'
-- 'My brother Joe was his father,'said Mr. Peggotty.
-- I did not quite understand what old one Mrs. Gummidge wassupposed to have fixed her mind upon, until Peggotty, on seeingme to bed, explained that it was the late Mr. Gummidge; and thather brother always took that for a received truth on such occasions,and that it always had a moving effect upon him.
-- I was solemnlyinterdicted by her, on her recovery, from touching my brother anymore on any pretence whatever, and my poor mother, who, I couldsee, wished otherwise, meekly confirmed the interdict, by saying,'No doubt you are right, my dear Jane.'
-- And I believe my brother was speakingon the subject when we- not very decently- interrupted him.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
-- Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
-- He was the brother of her friends, and he took pains to please her; and altogether, having seen nobody better (that must have been his great assistant) she might not, while she was at Abbey-Mill, find him disagreeable.
-- 'Harriet must give us as much of her company as she can while my brother and sister are here.
-- Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of per-sonal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew the spotless nobleness of the lives buried away in the lonely manor house; he knew what trouble and what joy his request would cause his sisters, and how happy they would be as they talked at the bottom of the orchard of that dear brother of theirs in Paris.
-- "Ah!my good neighbor, I am as much a son and brother as you are a father.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I 18 Frankensteinshould find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
-- He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother return to us.
-- Could the demon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?
-- The first part of this deposition did not in the least inter-est me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself ex-tremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.
-- But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss what's-her-name the sweet little thing who was here last year, youknow, Ashley's cousin oh, yes, Miss Melanie Hamilton, that's the name she and her brother Charles have alreadycome from Atlanta and " "Oh, so she did come?"
-- He swaggered among the tall O'Haras like a struttingbantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionately to hear him roar andhammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary to keep a baby brother in his proper place.
-- You can breed a mare to a brother or a sire to a daughter and get good results if you know your bloodstrains, but in people it just doesn't work.
-- He never knew why but girls always treated himlike a younger brother and were very kind, but never bothered to tease him.
-- And so they fought a duel andMr. Butler shot the girl's brother and he died, and Mr. Butler had to leave Charleston and now nobody receives him,"finished Cathleen triumphantly, and just in time, for Dilcey came back into the room to oversee the toilet of her charge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hown brother to Habraham Latharuth?"
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