cat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 猫； 猫科；，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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had not gone far before they saw a cat sitting in the middle of the road and making a most rueful face.
-- The cat was pleased with the thought, and joined the party.
-- The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a great tree, and the cat climbed up into the branches; while the cock, thinking that the higher he sat the safer he should be, flew 24 Grimms' Fairy Talesup to the very top of the tree, and then, according to his cus-tom, before he went to sleep, looked out on all sides of him to see that everything was well.
-- The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog's shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat's head.
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of dinner, my mistress's favourite cat leaped into her lap.
-- But it happened there was no danger, for the cat took not the least notice of me when my master placed me within three yards of her.
-- After some time spent in peeping, grin-ning, and chattering, he at last espied me; and reaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat does when she plays with a mouse, although I often shifted place to avoid him, he at length seized the lappet of my coat (which being made of that country silk, was very thick and strong), and dragged me out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the giant Mastodon, twisting and turning his horrid trunk, with which he crushed the rocks of the shore to powder, while the Megatherium--his back raised like a cat in a passion, his enormous claws stretched out, dug into the earth for food, at the same time that he awoke the sonorous echoes of the whole place with his terrible roar.
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：
-- You're as suspicious of me as a cat is of a dog.
-- But she understood it better when she received the following from Mellors: The cat is out of the bag, along with various other puss-ies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I tell you again, darling, that Mrs General, if I may reverse a common proverb and adapt it to her, is a cat in gloves who will catch mice.
-- She then makes a proposition, which is, in effect, that she has seen us much together; that it appears to her that I am for the passing time the cat of the house, the friend of the family; that her curiosity and her chagrins awaken the fancy to be acquainted with their movements, to know the manner of their life, how the fair Gowana is beloved, how the fair Gowana is cherished, and so on.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Our cat ran away once, and he brought her back, and we talked over the fence, and were getting on capitally, all about cricket, and so on, when he saw Meg coming, and walked off.
-- And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
-- Hannah hated rain as much as a cat does so she made no trouble, and they rolled away in the luxurious close car-riage, feeling very festive and elegant.
-- Beth had a headache and lay on the sofa, trying to com-fort herself with the cat and three kittens.
-- This lovely and beloved cat was the pet of a large circle of warm and admiring friends; for her beauty attract-ed all eyes, her graces and virtues endeared her to all hearts, and her loss is deeply felt by the whole community.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar as a mildly cruel cat her mouse.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 31 olonel Fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired Cat the Parsonage, and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at Rosings.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was under some apprehension, during my absence from the land, that at least my provisions might be devoured on shore: but when I came back I found no sign of any vis-itor; only there sat a creature like a wild cat upon one of the chests, which, when I came towards it, ran away a little distance, and then stood still.
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.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Looky here, Jim; does a cat talk like we do?'
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