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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He practised on her affection in that systematic way, that he got great sums of money from her, and he induced her to buy her brother out of a share in the brewery (which had been weakly left him by his father) at an immense price, on the plea that when he was her husband he must hold and manage it all.
-- Miss Skiffins's brother conducted the negotiation.
-- If I had been her secretary, steward, half-brother, poor relation,--if I had been a younger brother of her appointed husband,--I could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
-- And at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed into a man, and turned out to be the brother of the princess, who had been lost a great many many years.
-- The eldest brother set out, and sought for the pearls the whole day: but the evening came, and he had not found the first hundred: so he was turned into stone as the tablet had foretold.
-- The next day the second brother undertook the task; but he succeeded no better than the first; for he could only find the second hundred of the pearls; and therefore he too was turned into stone.
-- 'Mother,' said the little daughter again, 'may not brother 227have one too?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
-- The envoy further added, 'that in or-der to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor.'
-- He said, 'that as for sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible; that, although I had deprived him of his fleet, yet he owed great obligations to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.
-- I made the captain a very low bow, and then, turning to the Dutchman, said, 'I was sorry to find more mercy in a heathen, than in a brother christian.'
-- So, for ex-ample, if I should say, in a letter to a friend, 'Our brother Tom has just got the piles,' a skilful decipherer would dis-240 Gulliver's Travelscover, that the same letters which compose that sentence, may be analysed into the following words, 'Resist -, a plot is brought home The tour.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- her brother sulkily remonstrated.
-- When she was half a dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying 'Tom, I wonder' upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into the light and said, 'Louisa, never wonder!'
-- Their shadows were defined upon the wall, but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling, as if the brother and sister were overhung by a dark cavern.
-- Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him.
-- Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The elder brother was dead in the war.
-- Herbert, the elder brother and heir, laughed outright, though it was his trees that were falling for trench props.
-- But the day after she was at her brother Pan's at Beggarlee, swearing and carrying on, saying she was his legal wife, and that he'd beers having women at the cottage, because she'd found a scent-bottle in his drawer, and gold-tipped cigarette-ends on the ash-heap, and I don't know what all.
-- But instead of going back to Stacks Gate she went and lodged with that Mrs Swain at Beggarlee, because her brother Dan's wife wouldn't have her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She has no brother or sister.'
-- She had been, by snatches of a few weeks at a time, to an evening school outside, and got her sister and brother sent to day-schools by desultory starts, during three or four years.
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