male是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 男性(的) ， 雄性(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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thirty hors-es stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female," the priest read after the exchange of rings, "from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In that listless state he was mooning about the laboratory during elementary bacteriology demonstration hour, when Gottlieb sent him to the basement to bring up six male rabbits for inoculation.
-- He sent a glossy morning-coated male secretary, who presented Mr. Hunziker's compliments to the much less glossy Dr. Gottlieb, and hinted with the delicacy of a lilac bud that if it was quite altogether convenient, if it would not in the least interfere with Dr. Gottlieb's experiments, Mr. Hunziker would be flattered to see him in the office at a quarter after three.
-- This consists of one month of committee meetings, a hundred columns of praise for the organization in the public prints, and finally a day or two on which athletic persons flatter inappreciative audiences in churches or cinema theaters, and the prettiest girls in town have the pleasure of being allowed to talk to male strangers on the street corners, apropos of giving them extremely undecorative tags in exchange for the smallest sums which those strangers think they must pay if they are to be considered gentlemen.
-- There were eight or ten Persons of Importance, male and female, looking insignificant but bearing names as familiar as Ivory Soap.
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：
-- 'A fashion book is a lot of pictures, coloured, and they come to the tailors here every Saturday, by post from abroad, to show folks how to dress, the male sex as well as the female.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immense deference wasshown to the Henry Spikers, male and female; which Agnes toldme was on account of Mr. Henry Spiker being solicitor tosomething or to somebody, I forget what or which, remotelyconnected with the Treasury.
-- 'Thanks to you, Master Copperfield,' he returned, 'of no one inparticular just at present- no male person, at least.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The party was rather large, as it included one other fam-ily, a proper unobjectionable country family, whom the Coles had the advantage of naming among their acquain-tance, and the male part of Mr. Cox's family, the lawyer of Highbury.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.
-- Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.
-- One of these, alloted to the male performers, was partitioned into halves by a cloth; and in one of the divisions there was sitting on the grass, pulling on a pair of jack-boots, a young man whom we instantly recognise as Sergeant Troy.
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
-- The rays fell upon a group of male figures gathered upon the gravel in front, who, when they saw the newly-married couple in the porch, set up a loud "Hurrah!"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now they were successfulmerchants in Savannah, "though the dear God alone knows where that may be," as their mother always interpolatedwhen mentioning the two oldest of her male brood, and it was to them that young Gerald was sent.
-- Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
-- She and Melanie were alone in a big house "and without male protection," wrote Miss Pittypat, "now that dearCharlie has gone.
-- Then he grinned to himself as he recognized the invitation that any male could read.
-- All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful andembarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex."
-- "Why should she wreak revenge on all the male sex?
-- No other company was in the house than the landlord, his wife, and a grizzled male creature, the "Jack" of the little causeway, who was as slimy and smeary as if he had been low-water mark too.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
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