dwelling是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 住宅， 寓所，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：
-- When the queen got home, she went straight to her glass, and spoke to it as before; but to her great grief it still said: 'Thou, queen, art the fairest in all this land: But over the hills, in the greenwood shade, Where the seven dwarfs their dwelling have made, There Snowdrop is hiding her head; and she Is lovelier far, O queen!than thee.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignifi-cant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.
-- thought this account of the struldbrugs might be some I entertainment to the reader, because it seems to be a lit-tle out of the common way; at least I do not remember to have met the like in any book of travels that has come to my hands: and if I am deceived, my excuse must be, that it is necessary for travellers who describe the same coun-try, very often to agree in dwelling on the same particulars, without deserving the censure of having borrowed or tran-scribed from those who wrote before them.
-- 'In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into the mer-its of the cause; but are loud, violent, and tedious, in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sat down at the side of the bed, tenderly asking how she was, and dwelling on the necessity of her keeping very quiet after her agitation and exposure to the weather last night.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was still dwelling on the thought, when he rose and put on his hat.
-- His time, meanwhile, was spent lying in bed groaning, and dwelling anxiously on the hoped--for termination of the voyage.
-- As we trudged along, our feet crushed innumerable shells of every shape and size--once the dwelling place of animals of every period of creation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That,' added Mr Plornish, dwelling on the subject with a slow thoughtfulness that appeared to have no connection with any specific object, and to lead him nowhere, 'that is about what they are, you may believe me or not, as you think proper.'
-- But, said Little Dorrit, when they stopped at a poor dwelling all in darkness, and heard no sound on listening at the door, 'Now, this is a good lodging for you, Maggy, and we must not give offence.
-- Of articles collected on his various expeditions, there was such a vast miscellany that it was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair.
-- One of his customary evenings for repairing thither now coming round, he left his dwelling and his partner at nearly nine o'clock, and slowly walked in the direction of that grim home of his youth.
-- He had been accustomed to call her his child, and his dear child, and to invite her confidence by dwelling upon the difference in their respective ages, and to speak of himself as one who was turning old.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling in-tently on some particular passages.
-- She was engaged one day as she walked, in perusing Jane's last letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy, she saw on looking up that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.
-- I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion, should have been spared, had not my char-acter required it to be written and read.
-- It was not in her nature, howev-er, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.
-- Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner had hurried back in alarm, supposing by the servant's account that their niece was taken suddenly ill; but satisfying them instantly on that head, she eagerly communicated the cause of their summons, reading the two letters aloud, and dwelling on the postscript of the last with trembling energy, though Lydia had never been a favourite with them, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner could not but be deeply afflicted.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island; and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this, and what kind of dwelling to make - whether I should make me a cave in the earth, or a tent upon the earth; and, in short, I resolved upon both; the manner and description of which, it may not be improper to give an account of.
-- I took another way to come back than that I went, think-ing I could easily keep all the island so much in my view that I could not miss finding my first dwelling by viewing the country; but I found myself mistaken, for being come about two or three miles, I found myself descended into a very large valley, but so surrounded with hills, and those hills covered with wood, that I could not see which was my way by any direction but that of the sun, nor even then, un-less I knew very well the position of the sun at that time of the day.
-- Near this dwelling of mine, but a little farther within the land, and upon lower ground, lay my two pieces of corn land, which I kept duly cultivated and sowed, and which duly yielded me their harvest in its season; and whenever I had occasion for more corn, I had more land adjoining as fit as that.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 3Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; for to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible.
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