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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female.
-- He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and fe-male, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.
-- His honour had further observed, 'that a female Yahoo would often stand behind a bank or a bush, to gaze on the young males passing by, and then appear, and hide, using many antic gestures and grimaces, at which time it was ob-served that she had a most offensive smell; and when any of the males advanced, would slowly retire, looking often back, 336 Gulliver's Travelsand with a counterfeit show of fear, run off into some con-venient place, where she knew the male would follow her.
-- How-ever, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This walk was common to all the male members of Sleary's company, and was understood to express, that they were always on horseback.
-- Mr. Sleary stood in the middle of the room, with the male members of the company about him, exactly as he would have stood in the centre of the ring during his daughter Josephine's performance.
-- But she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company yet, and every one of them had to unfold his arms (for they all assumed the professional attitude when they found themselves near Sleary), and give her a parting kiss Master Kidderminster excepted, in whose young nature there was an original flavour of the misanthrope, who was also known to have harboured matrimonial views, and who moodily withdrew.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she can find no more the male bird sets to work to see what he can do.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the actual sex-thrill within the body, the sisters nearly succumbed to the strange male power.
-- He really reaped the fruits of the sensual satisfaction she got out of Michaelis' male passivity erect inside her.
-- We're all in-telligent human beings, and the male and female business is in abeyance.
-- How would you like me to start acting up like a continental male at this moment, and parading the sex thing?'
-- 'Well then!I tell you, if I'm really a male thing at all, I never run across the female of my species.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the male relations of Madame Rigaud had put themselves forward openly, I should have known how to deal with them.
-- 'Cash goes out fast,' he said anxiously, as he pushed a portion to each of his male companions, 'very fast.'
-- But, I mistaken on a point that has caused me more smart in my breast than a flight of savages' arrows could have done!I mistaken on a point that almost sent me into my grave, as I sometimes wished it would, if the grave could only have been made compatible with the tobacco-business and father and mother's feelings!I mistaken on a point that, even at the present moment, makes me take out my pocket-handkerchief like a great girl, as people say: though I am sure I don't know why a great girl should be a term of reproach, for every rightly constituted male mind loves 'em great and small.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts to her heart's content and took immense satisfaction in a pair of russet leather boots given her by a friend, who knew a lady who knew an actor.
-- She liked the 'Laurence boy' better than ever and took several good looks at him, so that she might describe him to the girls, for they had no brothers, very few male cousins, and boys were almost un-known creatures to them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm, shook himself all over like a Newfoundland dog just from the water, and sat up in bed, stiff as a pike-staff, looking at me, and rubbing his eyes as if he did not altogether remember how I came to be there, though a dim consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over him.
-- It was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.
-- In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude, but not old; who, upon any alarm, evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies.
-- Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the sexes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
-- By degrees, however, as some of it cleared away through the open door, an assemblage of heads, as confused as the noises that greeted the ear, might be made out; and as the eye grew more accustomed to the scene, the spectator gradually became aware of the presence of a numerous company, male and female, crowded round a long table: at the upper end of which, sat a chairman with a hammer of office in his hand; while a professional gentleman with a bluish nose, and his face tied up for the benefit of a toothache, presided at a jingling piano in a remote corner.
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