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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went on, though often almost despairingly, through bogs and rivers, and across mountains, till he had traversed the whole of the uninhabited part of the continent, where only a few bold travelers have ventured; and at last, in an exhausted and all but dying condition, he reached the hospitable dwelling of Paddy O'Moore, where he said he had found a happy home in exchange for his labor.
-- Michael and Sandy Patterson had just concluded these details of their busy life, when their dwelling came in sight, at the extremity of the avenue of the oaks.
-- Then the wagon began to move away, round the foot of Mount Hottam, and soon the hospitable dwelling disappeared from the sight of the travelers like some brief vision which had come and gone.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- God knows what it is dwelling within me now it is not myself.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Until the Achaeans came he had lived in Pedaeum, and had married Medesicaste, a bastard daugh-ter of Priam; but on the arrival of the Danaan fleet he had gone back to Ilius, and was a great man among the Trojans, dwelling near Priam himself, who gave him like honour with his own sons.
-- When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Jove; but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all.
-- Would that you were still dwelling among the immortal sea-nymphs, and that Peleus had taken to himself some mortal bride.
-- Ere long they came to the lofty dwelling of the son of Peleus for which the Myrmidons had cut pine and which they had built for their king; when they had built it they thatched it with coarse tussock-grass which they had mown out on the plain, and all round it they made a large courtyard, which was fenced with stakes set close together.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the carelessness and disorganisation increased from day to day, the lane of dwelling places, at no time very sweet, became so loathsome that I left it, and going across the is-land made myself a hovel of boughs amid the black ruins of Moreau's enclosure.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said half a dozen low voic-es (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The singers were dwelling on one of those low, dying chords, which the ear devours with such greedy rapture, as if conscious that it is about to lose them, when a cry, that seemed neither human nor earthly, rose in the outward air, penetrating not only the recesses of the cavern, but to the inmost hearts of all who heard it.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We shall see him again, Pencroft," cried Herbert, "and when be returns he must find a tolerable dwelling here.
-- A fortunate circumstance, in the event of their finding on its borders a more suitable dwelling than the Chimneys.
-- It was decided, therefore, that they would winter at Lincoln Island, and that they would look for a more comfortable dwelling than the Chimneys, in which to pass the winter months.
-- The question of a more comfortable dwelling than the Chimneys must therefore be seriously considered and promptly resolved on.
-- A natural dwelling would spare us much work, and would be a surer retreat, for it would be as well defended against enemies from the interior as those from outside."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall remember it,' he had no excuse for dwelling on the subject any further, and so took a friendly leave with many expressions of good-will and many compliments to his friend on his looking so remarkably well; and went below stairs to report progress to Mr Brass.
-- 'Now, if she should be out,' thought Kit, as he approached the poor dwelling of his mother, 'and I not able to find her, this impatient gentleman would be in a pretty taking.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so well was she able to answer her own expectations, that when she joined them at dinner only two hours after she had first suffered the extinction of all her dearest hopes, no one would have supposed from the appearance of the sisters, that Elinor was mourning in secret over obstacles which must divide her for ever from the object of her love, and that Marianne was internally dwelling on the perfections of a man, of whose whole heart she felt thoroughly possessed, and whom she expected to see in every carriage which drove near their house.
-- But though confidence between them was, by this public discovery, restored to its proper state, it was not a subject on which either of them were fond of dwelling when alone.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned to his eating again, the thought that it was a burden to have her here dwelling in his mind.
-- He was dwelling on her attractiveness as he had felt it the evening before, and mingling it with the feeling her presence inspired now.
-- Carrie was dwelling in the atmosphere which this man created for her.
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