sparrow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 麻雀，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, when he had eaten both the sparrow and her young, the god who had sent him made him become a sign; for the son of scheming Saturn turned him into stone, and we stood there wondering at that which had come to pass.
-- As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kitty said suddenly, looking at a sparrow that had settled on the step and was pecking at the center of a raspberry.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had always been well beloved, a gentle, shabby, bright-eyed spinster who brought presents to the babies, helped the overworked farmwives to cook dinner, and sang to the children in her thin sparrow voice.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a sparrow just waking.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Honey was a shrill-voiced sparrow andScarlett a gleaming hummingbird.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were sparrow hawks, with white breasts, and kestrels, and down the slopes scampered, with their long legs, several fine fat bustards.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 37THE DOG AND THE SPARROW shepherd's dog had a master who took no care of him, A but often let him suffer the greatest hunger.
-- On the road he met a sparrow that said to him, 'Why are you so sad, my friend?'
-- So on they went together into the town: and as they passed by a butcher's shop, the sparrow said to the dog, 'Stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of meat.'
-- So the sparrow perched upon the shelf: and having first looked carefully about her to see if anyone was watch-ing her, she pecked and scratched at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last down it fell.
-- When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, 'Well, my good friend, have you had enough now?'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dray horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter.
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