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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- every morning I walked out with my gun for two or three hours, if it did not rain; then employed my-self to work till about eleven o'clock; then eat what I had to live on; and from twelve to two I lay down to sleep, the weather being excessively hot; and then, in the evening, to work again.
-- When the firewood was burned pretty much into embers or live coals, I drew them forward upon this hearth, so as to cover it all over, and there I let them lie till the hearth was very hot.
-- All this labour I was at the expense of, purely from my apprehensions on account of the print of a man's foot; for as yet I had never seen any human creature come near the island; and I had now lived two years under this uneasiness, which, indeed, made my life much less comfortable than it was before, as may be well imagined by any who know what it is to live in the constant snare of the fear of man.
-- Time, however, and the satisfaction I had that I was in no danger of being discovered by these people, began to wear off my uneasiness about them; and I began to live just in the same composed manner as before, only with this difference, that I used more caution, and kept my eyes more about me than I did before, lest I should happen to be seen by any of them; and particularly, I was more cautious of firing my gun, lest any of them, being on the island, should happen to hear it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
-- If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds."
-- But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be completely taken in."
-- "Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.
-- Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds, besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is, I live at Columbia City.
-- She would live in Chicago, her mind kept saying to itself.
-- "He won't live much longer.
-- Why, you can't live on it, can you?"
-- "You don't want to live with those people?"
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
-- She said it was wicked to say what I said; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world; she was going to live so as to go to the good place.
-- I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.
-- By and by I says to myself, I can't live this way; I'm a-going to find out who it is that's here on the island with me; I'll find it out or bust.
-- 'Is that what you live on?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the cheerful tinkle of the gold, the Fox unconsciously held out his paw that was supposed to be lame, and the Cat opened wide his two eyes till they looked like live coals, but he closed them again so quickly that Pinocchio did not notice.
-- "What an awful world to live in!Where shall we find a safe place for gentlemen like ourselves?"
-- Where is the old dog who used to live in this house?"
-- They are born Marionettes, they live Marionettes, and they die Marionettes."
-- On and on he walked till finally he found--I give you a thousand guesses, my dear children!He found a little table set for dinner and lighted by a candle stuck in a glass bottle; and near the table sat a little old man, white as the snow, eating live fish.
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