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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It frightened my aunt so that she sent it back to the office unopened, and there it's been ever since!
-- Ptitsin explained, for the benefit of the company, that the prince's aunt had died five months since.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can't thrash Aunt March, so I suppose I shall have to bear it.'
-- I'm sure Aunt March is a regular Old Man of the Sea to me, but I suppose when I've learned to carry her without complaining, she will tumble off, or get so light that I shan't mind her.'
-- Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
-- "It was not me," cried Dough-Boy, "it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub so she called it."
-- The first contained strong spirits, and was handed to Queequeg; the second was Aunt Charity's gift, and that was freely given to the waves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied the young lady; 'you frighten my aunt as much as the thieves did.
-- 'And you, Miss Rose,' said the doctor, turning to the young lady, 'I--' 'Oh!very much so, indeed,' said Rose, interrupting him; 'but there is a poor creature upstairs, whom aunt wishes you to see.'
-- 'Then my aunt invests you with full power,' said Rose, smiling through her tears; 'but pray don't be harder upon the poor fellows than is indispensably necessary.'
-- We are going into the country, and my aunt intends that you shall accompany us.
-- 'To think that my dear good aunt should have been the means of rescuing any one from such sad misery as you have described to us, would be an unspeakable pleasure to me; but to know th at the object of her goodness and compassion was sincerely grateful and attached, in consequence, would delight me, more than you can well imagine.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Mery-ton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.
-- 'Mamma,' cried Lydia, 'my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library.'
-- 'I wonder my aunt did not tell us of THAT.'
-- Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phil-lips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley.
-- My aunt told me so herself on Saturday.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she married a very wealthy man.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
-- Aunt Pol- ly Tom's Aunt Polly, she is and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
-- Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more.
-- 'Yes'm she ' 'Don't say yes'm say Aunt Sally.
-- oldish man, with a ' 'No, I didn't see nobody, Aunt Sally.
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