new是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 新(近) 的； 新来的； 不熟悉的； 没经验的，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that popula-tion, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless coun-try, sweeps by them unobserved.
-- He was, moreover, esteemed by the wom-en as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft,' in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed.
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
-- He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him.
-- As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless at-tempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
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：
-- Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude.
-- The new evangel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky.
-- Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs.
-- Miss Waterford, torn between the aestheticism of her early youth, when she used to go to parties in sage green, holding a daffodil, and the flippancy of her maturer years, which tended to high heels and Paris frocks, wore a new hat.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was low, and covered with thick vegetation, chief-ly a kind of palm, that was new to me.
-- 'I'm itching to get to work again with this new stuff,' said the white-haired man, noddding towards the enclo- sure.
-- 'We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet.'
-- Then suddenly I heard a staghound bay, and at that re-alised a new danger.
-- We ran through a long list of prohibi-tions, and then the chant swung round to a new formula.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'O Akela, and ye the Free People,' he purred, 'I have no right in your assembly, but the Law of the Jungle says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new cub, the life of that cub may be bought at a price.
-- He was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets feebler and feebler, till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up to be killed in his turn.
-- It was one very warm day that a new notion came to Ba-gheera born of something that he had heard.
-- 'What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?'
-- Always pecking at new things are the Bandar-log.
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：
-- When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave ap-pellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to them-selves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.
-- Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized beings of the Oneidas, on the reservations of their people in New York.
-- The lengthened sheet of the Champlain stretched from the fron-tiers of Canada, deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage across half the distance that the French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies.
-- Receiving no reply to this extraordinary appeal, which in truth, as it was delivered with the vigor of full and so-norous tones, merited some sort of notice, he who had thus sung forth the language of the holy book turned to the si-lent figure to whom he had unwittingly addressed himself, and found a new and more powerful subject of admiration in the object that encountered his gaze.
-- Happily, I may say that I utter nothing but the thoughts and the wishes of the King of Israel himself; for though the times may call for some slight changes, yet does this ver-sion which we use in the colonies of New England so much exceed all other versions, that, by its richness, its exactness, and its spiritual simplicity, it approacheth, as near as may be, to the great work of the inspired writer.
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