live是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 活, 生活 a. 有生命的, 实况的，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, 'Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.
-- said the wife, 'we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor con-cluded me to be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching in a hostile manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing, and hold-ing up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I cried in a loud voice, 'Long live the most puissant king of Lilliput!'
-- She asked, 'whether I could be content to live at court?'
-- He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores; but allowing for the proportion of all things be-tween that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guin-eas would be in England.
-- But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.
-- I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty, 'that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excel-lent qualities of mind that he was master of; that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the con-trary, we observed in our country, that the tallest persons were usually the least provided with it; that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity, than many of the larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I wish I could collect all the Facts we hear so much about,' said Tom, spitefully setting his teeth, 'and all the Figures, and all the people who found them out: and I wish I could put a thousand barrels of gunpowder under them, and blow them all up together!However, when I go to live with old Bounderby, I'll have my revenge.'
-- 'We travelled about the country, and had no fixed place to live in.
-- As to Mrs. Gradgrind, if she said anything on the subject, she would come a little way out of her wrappers, like a feminine dormouse, and say:'Good gracious bless me, how my poor head is vexed and worried by that girl Jupe's so perseveringly asking, over and over again, about her tiresome letters!Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.
-- When they dunnot agree, for that their tempers is ill-sorted, they has rooms o' one kind an' another in their houses, above a bit, and they can live asunders.
-- 'If I was to live wi' her an' not marry her saying such a thing could be, which it never could or would, an' her so good there's a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this street the merchants and traders live in wooden huts made with beams of wood, painted red--mere log huts, such as you find in the wilds of America.
-- The men appeared robust but heavy; fair-haired like Germans, but of pensive mien--exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.
-- We are very studious, my dear sir, though we do live in Iceland.
-- "You do not mean to say," I cried, "that we have captured a live specimen of a fish belonging to the primitive stock that existed before the deluge?"
-- I carried myself back to far ages, long before man existed--when, in fact, the earth was in too imperfect a state for him to live upon it.
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：
-- And she had realized that one must live and learn.
-- The three had said they would all live together always.
-- Then she hardened herself to it, and it be-came a sort of tonic, something to live up to.
-- Do I live alone?
-- 'It's quite true, you can't live without cash,' said May.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I continued to live at the Cross of Gold.
-- 'If I live a week you shall.'
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