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《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says my brother cut off the gold tassels from my father's coffin, at night because they're worth a lot ofmoney!'
-- Aha, brother Senka, you'll have to open your gates and let me in, my boy!I know he told tales about me to my father I know that well enough but I cer-tainly did rile my father about Nastasia Philipovna that's very sure, and that was my own doing.'
-- Nina Alexandrovna is the wife of General Ardalion Alexandrovitch, my old brother in arms, with whom, I regret to say, on account of certain cir-cumstances, I am no longer acquainted.
-- She was subject to outbursts of temper, of which even her brother was a little afraid.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Ulysses, peer of gods in counsel; but Menelaus came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was.
-- And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battle-cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others.
-- Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were not without a leader, for Podarces, of the race of Mars, marshalled them; he was son of Iphic-lus, rich in sheep, who was the son of Phylacus, and he was own brother to Protesilaus, only younger, Protesilaus being at once the elder and the more valiant.
-- First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of his brother Lyc-aon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silver-studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield.
-- She found fierce Mars waiting on the left of the battle, with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud; whereon she fell on her knees before her brother and implored him to let her have his horses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then something happened to his rear-most foot, and he went headlong and rolled sideways just in time to graze the feet of his brother and partner, following headlong.
-- A brother mariner had seen this wonderful sight that very morning.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He is our brother in all but blood,' Akela went on, 'and ye would kill him here!In truth, I have lived too long.
-- More I cannot do; but if ye will, I can save ye the shame that comes of killing a brother against whom there is no fault a brother spoken for and bought into the Pack according to the Law of the Jungle.'
-- Because I was all but your brother in blood, I promise that when I am a man among men I will not betray ye to men as ye have betrayed me.'
-- 'And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.'
-- said Gray Brother (he was the eldest of Moth-er Wolf's cubs).
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：
-- But it has ended in turning the tomahawk of brother against brother, and brought the Mingo and the Delaware to travel in the same path.'
-- 'My brother is a great medicine,' said the cunning savage; 'he will try?'
-- He was implicitly, though reluctantly, obeyed; and when the low echo which rang along the hollow, natural gallery, from the distant closing door, had ceased, pointing toward his insen- sible daughter, he said: 'Now let my brother show his power.'
-- 'Has my brother driven away the evil spirit?'
-- 'Is my brother mad?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, imagine to yourself, just before the war my brother wrote to me from Paris, and said: 'Do you know anything about an English painter who lived in Tahiti?
-- 'No,' she said, 'it does not resemble the plantation and I have never seen cocoa-nuts with blue leaves; but they are mad in Paris, and it may be that your brother will be able to sell it for the two hundred francs you lent Strickland.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nell will be a woman soon,' returned the other, 'and, bred in your faith, she'll forget her brother unless he shows himself sometimes.'
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