birthday是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生日； (成方) 纪念日，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The day before her birthday he was in a fever of agitation.
-- Anfisa Alexeyevna's birthday came off just then, too, and there were two balls arranged.
-- Part II I wo days after the strange conclusion to Nastasia Phil-Tipovna's birthday party, with the record of which we concluded the first part of this story, Prince Muishkin hur- riedly left St. Petersburg for Moscow, in order to see after some business connected with the receipt of his unexpected fortune.
-- All the guests were known to the prince; but the curious part of the matter was that they had all arrived on the same evening, as though with one accord, although he had only himself recollected the fact that it was his birthday a few moments since.
-- 'Well, meanwhile that sick boy was brought here, and those guests came in, and we had tea, and well, we made merry to my ruin!Hearing of your birthday afterwards, and excited with the circumstances of the evening, I ran upstairs and changed my plain clothes once more for my uniform [Civil Service clerks in Russia wear uniform.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of his mother Seryozha did not think all the evening, but when he had gone to bed, he suddenly remembered her, and prayed in his own words that his mother tomorrow for his birthday might leave off hiding herself and come to him.
-- "I know," he said, opening his eyes; "it's my birthday today.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- IV January thirtieth, the birthday of the late Dr. Warburton Stonedge, founder of the medical department of Winnemac, was annually celebrated by a banquet rich in fraternalism and speeches and large lack of wine.
-- Mr. Babbitt has just adorned his thirty-fourth birthday by buying his first benzine buggy from yours truly and beg to remain as always."
-- On Gottlieb's birthday he gave him a shocking smoking-jacket of cherry and mauve velvet, and when he called at Gottlieb's flat, which was often, Gottlieb had to put on the ghastly thing and sit humming while Sondelius assaulted him with roaring condemnations of mediocre soup and mediocre musicians.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now you're going to a birthday party?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 120CHAPTER IXI Have a Memorable BirthdayI PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary ofmy birthday came round in March.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birthday is the 23rd just a fortnight and a day's difference which is very odd.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
-- Chapter XVIII now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship life, which was varied beyond the limits of the village and the marshes, by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham.
-- I was beginning to be rather vain of my knowledge, for I spent my birthday guineas on it, and set aside the greater part of my pocket-money for similar investment; though I have no doubt, now, that the little I knew was extremely dear at the price.
-- I had taken care to have it well understood in Little Britain when my birthday was.
-- Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Dorrit's LoverLittle Dorrit had not attained her twenty-second birthday without finding a lover.
-- They walked at a slow pace, and Little Dorrit took him by the Iron Bridge and sat him down there for a rest, and they looked over at the water and talked about the shipping, and the old man mentioned what he would do if he had a ship full of gold coming home to him (his plan was to take a noble lodging for the Plornishes and himself at a Tea Gardens, and live there all the rest of their lives, attended on by the waiter), and it was a special birthday of the old man.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one did for several months, but the word 'fete' always produced a general smile, and Laurie's birthday gift to Amy was a tiny coral lobster in the shape of a charm for her watch guard.
-- If she had known what birthday gift was coming every minute nearer and nearer, she would not have said to herself, 'I'll weep a little weep when I go to bed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a picture of a young woman in a long white gown, standing on the rail of a bridge all ready to jump off, with her hair all down her back, and looking up to the moon, with the tears run-ning down her face, and she had two arms folded across her breast, and two arms stretched out in front, and two more reaching up towards the moon and the idea was to see which pair would look best, and then scratch out all the other arms; but, as I was saying, she died before she got her mind made up, and now they kept this picture over the head of the bed in her room, and every time her birthday come they hung flowers on it.
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