aunt是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 姨母， 姑母， 伯母， 婶母， 舅母， 阿姨，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His father, mother, brothers, sisters, and aunt did not spend two hundred francs a month among them.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange perversity, her mother could not en-dure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill. My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.
-- My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
-- When my dearest aunt died every one was too much oc-cupied in their own grief to notice poor Justine, who had 69attended her during her illness with the most anxious affec-tion.
-- She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
-- She paused, weeping, and then continued, 'I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now come, daughter, cheer up, and I'lltake you to Charleston next week to visit your Aunt Eulalie and, what with all the hullabaloo they are having over thereabout Fort Sumter, you'll be forgetting about Ashley in a week."
-- "Wen Miss Ellen yo' age, she never et nuthin' w'en shewent out, an' needer yo' Aunt Pauline nor yo' Aunt Eulalie.
-- "You will come to Atlanta and visit me and Aunt Pittypat, won't you?
-- Aunt Pauline and her husband, a little old man, with a formal, brittle courtesy and the absent air of one living inan older age, lived on a plantation on the river, far more isolated than Tara.
-- There was more sociallife here than at Aunt Pauline's, but Scarlett did not like the people who called, with their airs and their traditions andtheir emphasis on family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had a great aunt living in these very times called Lady Scadgers.
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：
-- There were people staying in the house, among them Clifford's Aunt Eva, Lady Bennerley.
-- Aunt Eva was quite complacently proud of Clifford's success.
-- 'I believe our civilization is going to collapse,' said Aunt Eva.
-- Anyhow everything was terribly silly, and she was exas-peratedly bored by it all, by Clifford, by Aunt Eva, by Olive and Jack, and Winterslow, and even by Dukes.
-- Clifford made a little conversation with her, to show his complete composure: about Aunt Eva, who was at Dieppe, and about Sir Malcolm, who had written to ask would Con-nie drive with him in his small car, to Venice, or would she and Hilda go by train.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Said the Dog was the perfect picture of the old aunt from whom he had expectations.
-- Mr F.'s Aunt may have thrown in these observations on some system of her own, and it may have been ingenious, or even subtle: but the key to it was wanted.
-- Mr F.'s Aunt sat silently defying him with an aspect of the greatest bitterness, until the removal of the cloth and the appearance of the decanters, when she originated another observation struck into the conversation like a clock, without consulting anybody.
-- She imparted to this sentiment, in itself almost Solomonic, so extremely injurious and personal a character by levelling it straight at the visitor's head, that it became necessary to lead Mr F.'s Aunt from the room.
-- This was quietly done by Flora; Mr F.'s Aunt offering no resistance, but inquiring on her way out, 'What he come there for, then?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They talked over the new plan while old Hannah cleared the table, then out came the four little work baskets, and the needles flew as the girls made sheets for Aunt March.
-- 'Aunt March had a good fit and sent the supper,' cried Jo, with a sudden inspiration.
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