lesson是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (功) 课； [pl.，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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course we'll fight " "Yankee thieves " "We could lick them in a month " "Why, one Southerner can licktwenty Yankees " "Teach them a lesson they won't soon forget " "Peaceably?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- had been your teacher at the present time, she thinks she knows what lesson she would set.
-- Mike looked hard at my guardian, as if he were trying to learn a lesson from his face, and slowly replied, "Ayther to character, or to having been in his company and never left him all the night in question."
-- "Our lesson is, that there are two Richmonds, one in Surrey and one in Yorkshire, and that mine is the Surrey Richmond.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- continued at home with my wife and children about five I months, in a very happy condition, if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, if Mr. M'Choakumchild,' said the gentleman, 'will proceed to give his first lesson here, Mr. Gradgrind, I shall be happy, at your request, to observe his mode of procedure.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Despite my protestations my first lesson lasted quite an hour.
-- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection--if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not but think what a blessed thing it would have been for this man, if he had taken a lesson from the gentlemen who were so kind as to take a nation's affairs in charge, and had learnt How not to do it.
-- 'Ah dear me the poor old room,' said Flora, glancing round, 'looks just as ever Mrs Clennam I am touched to see except for being smokier which was to be expected with time and which we must all expect and reconcile ourselves to being whether we like it or not as I am sure I have had to do myself if not exactly smokier dreadfully stouter which is the same or worse, to think of the days when papa used to bring me here the least of girls a perfect mass of chilblains to be stuck upon a chair with my feet on the rails and stare at Arthur pray excuse me Mr Clennam the least of boys in the frightfullest of frills and jackets ere yet Mr F. appeared a misty shadow on the horizon paying attentions like the well-known spectre of some place in Germany beginning with a B is a moral lesson inculcating that all the paths in life are similar to the paths down in the North of England where they get the coals and make the iron and things gravelled with ashes!'
-- It amused me, it worried your dear mama and my Flintwinch, it caused you agonies (my terms for a lesson in politeness towards a gentleman), and it suggested to all the amiable persons interested that your entirely devoted is a man to fear.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had all my girls to comfort me at home, and his last son was waiting, miles away, to say good-by to him, perhaps!I felt so rich, so happy thinking of my blessings, that I made him a nice bundle, gave him some money, and thanked him heartily for the lesson he had taught me.'
-- The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharp-est reproof.
-- Hoping to impress the lesson more deeply, Mrs. March, who had a good deal of humor, resolved to finish off the trial in an appropriate manner, so she gave Hannah a holiday and let the girls enjoy the full effect of the play system.
-- If she had seen the brown eyes then, she would have stopped short, but she never looked up, and the lesson was not spoiled for her.
-- 'Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sealine sound!what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet!What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly!How billow-like and boisterously grand!We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us!But what is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches?
-- Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.
-- As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
-- I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson that Jonah teaches to all sinners; and therefore to ye, and still more to me, for I am a greater sinner than ye.
-- And now how gladly would I come down from this mast-head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more awful lesson which Jonah teaches to me, as a pilot of the living God.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let this be a lesson to you, my man, or the law will overtake you yet.
-- Then, he had his own lesson for the next day to prepare; and at this, he would work hard, in a little room which looked into the garden, till evening came slowly on, when the ladies would walk out again, and he with them: listening with such pleasure to all they said: and so happy if they wanted a flower that he could climb to reach, or had forgotten anything he could run to fetch: that he could never be quick enough about it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The effect of his discourse on the lady too, could not escape her observation, for though she was too honorable to listen, and had even changed her seat, on purpose that she might NOT hear, to one close by the piano forte on which Marianne was playing, she could not keep herself from seeing that Elinor changed colour, attended with agitation, and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment. Still farther in confirmation of her hopes, in the interval of Marianne's turning from one lesson to another, some words of the Colonel's inevitably reached her ear, in which he seemed to be apologising for the badness of his house.
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