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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To get her brother out of the prison; out of the succession to Mrs Bangham in executing commissions, and out of the slang interchange with very doubtful companions consequent upon both; was her hardest task.
-- My brother is William Dorrit; I am Frederick.
-- This is my brother William, sir.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls,' said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
-- At the Kings' today I found ev-erybody in a flurry, and one of the children said that her oldest brother had done something dreadful, and Papa had sent him away.
-- You are so kind to us, we feel as if you were our brother and say just what we think.
-- We can't be little playmates any longer, but we will be brother and sister, to love and help one another all our lives, won't we, Laurie?'
-- Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gal-lantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove?
-- And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
-- But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron.
-- Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of? what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?
-- What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such commenda-tion to think of her as he chose.
-- She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.
-- My brother and the gentlemen are to dine with the officers. Yours ever, 'CAROLINE BINGLEY.'
-- When she was only fifteen, there was a man at my brother Gardin-er's in town so much in love with her that my sister-in-law was sure he would make her an offer before we came away.
-- Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
-- He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the few-est disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, lux-ury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the nat-ural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the hand-maids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embar-rassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with per-plexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sen-sibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly, After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most af-fectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the sta-tion of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus dis-charged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persua-sions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
-- He said, 'No, they make brother with them;' that is, as I understood him, a truce; and then he added, 'They no eat mans but when make the war fight;' that is to say, they never eat any men but such as come to fight with them and are taken in battle.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh!beyond anything great!What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if REALLY his sisters!And as it is only half blood! But you have such a generous spirit!"
-- This circumstance was a growing attachment between her eldest girl and the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood, a gentleman-like and pleasing young man, who was introduced to their acquaintance soon after his sister's establishment at Norland, and who had since spent the greatest part of his time there.
-- Fortunately he had a younger brother who was more promising.
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