pet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 爱畜， 宠儿a. 宠爱的， 表示亲昵的，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Articles no less passionate than logical appeared on the question, for geography is one of the pet subjects of the English; and the columns devoted to Phileas Fogg's venture were eagerly devoured by all classes of readers.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They found one friend, the fireman on duty, a splendid person with stories about pet cats in the fire-house and no tendency to ask questions in bacteriology.
-- An old women died after treatment at the clinic, and the coroner hinted that it had been the fault of "our almighty health-officer's pet cub assistant."
-- It's Capitola's pet creation--Capitola is Mrs. Ross McGurk, wife of the founder; she's really an awfully nice woman but she does love Movements and Associations.
-- To have beheld him infecting lean snaky rats with the horror, all the while clucking to them and calling them pet names, one would have known him mad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, although I had not received any express encouragement asyet, I fancied that I saw in the two little sisters, and particularly inMiss Lavinia, an intensified enjoyment of this new and fruitfulsubject of domestic interest, a settling down to make the most of it, 553a disposition to pet it, in which there was a good bright ray ofhope.
-- My aunt, with whom she gradually becamefamiliar, always called her Little Blossom; and the pleasure of MissLavinia's life was to wait upon her, curl her hair, make ornamentsfor her, and treat her like a pet child.
-- I wantour pet to like me, and be as gay as a but- terfly.
-- 'Why what asensitive pet it is!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direfulwhippings, but there never had been a slave sold from Tara and only one whipping, and that administered for notgrooming down Gerald's pet horse after, a long day's hunting.
-- Yes, Gerald hadlooked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pet was about twenty.
-- She was round and fresh and dimpled and spoilt, and there was in Pet an air of timidity and dependence which was the best weakness in the world, and gave her the only crowning charm a girl so pretty and pleasant could have been without.
-- 'Now, I ask you,' said Mr Meagles in the blandest confidence, falling back a step himself, and handing his daughter a step forward to illustrate his question: 'I ask you simply, as between man and man, you know, DID you ever hear of such damned nonsense as putting Pet in quarantine?'
-- So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London?
-- 'Well!One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show her everything that we think can please her Mother (my usual name for Mrs Meagles) began to cry so, that it was necessary to take her out.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You're a dear, and nothing else,' answered Meg warmly, and no one contradicted her, for the 'Mouse' was the pet of the family.
-- This was Jo's fa-vorite refuge, and here she loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't mind her a particle.
-- 'That looks too pretty to eat,' he said, smiling with plea-sure, as Jo uncovered the dish, and showed the blancmange, surrounded by a garland of green leaves, and the scarlet flowers of Amy's pet geranium.
-- This lovely and beloved cat was the pet of a large circle of warm and admiring friends; for her beauty attract-ed all eyes, her graces and virtues endeared her to all hearts, and her loss is deeply felt by the whole community.
-- Her stealthy paws tread the very hall Where Snowball used to play, But she only spits at the dogs our pet So gallantly drove away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This led to a more friendly and confidential dialogue; from which Oliver discovered that his friend's name was Jack Dawkins, and that he was a peculiar pet and protege of the elderly gentleman before mentioned.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, using a pet name he had given her.
-- Chapter XXXI A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE--BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS The effect of the city and his own situation on Hurstwood was paralleled in the case of Carrie, who accepted the things which fortune provided with the most genial good-nature.
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