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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit of all the world to live locked up in narrow yards surrounded by high walls with spikes at the top, would be a difficult question to settle.
-- 'Fanny is not going to live with us just now, father.
-- She will be here a good deal in the day, but she is going to live outside with uncle.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excel-lently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
-- 'You mean the people who live in the big house next door, don't you?'
-- You live near us, don't you?'
-- 'To live in Italy, and to enjoy myself in my own way.'
-- 'A fellow can't live on books,' said Laurie, shaking his head as he perched on a table opposite.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives.
-- The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England.
-- Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
-- "But look, Queequeg, ain't that a live eel in your bowl?
-- Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.
-- It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies.
-- 'Do you live in London?'
-- All I have to live upon, in my old age.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her.'
-- Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father, who had in-tended to purchase an estate, but did not live to do it.
-- Does she live near you, sir?'
-- But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years lon-ger), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years.
-- 'Indeed, Mr. Bennet,' said she, 'it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for HER, and live to see her take her place in it!'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and that now I had all these to suf-ficient quantity, and was in a fair way to provide myself in such a manner as to live without my gun, when my ammu-nition was spent: so that I had a tolerable view of subsisting, without any want, as long as I lived; for I considered from the beginning how I would provide for the accidents that might happen, and for the time that was to come, even not only after my ammunition should be spent, but even after my health and strength should decay.
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