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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Hareton, who followed me everywhere, and was sitting near me on the floor, at seeing my tears commenced crying himself, and sobbed out complaints against 'wicked aunt Cathy,' which drew her fury on to his unlucky head: she seized his shoulders, and shook him till the poor child waxed livid, and Edgar thoughtlessly laid hold of her hands to deliver him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's an aunt of mine down in Dorsetshire that was going to die when I was eight years old, and hasn't kept her word yet.
-- The roads are closing so fast in every direction, that in a month's time, unless my aunt sends me a remittance, I shall have to go three or four miles out of town to get over the way.'
-- 'Quilp offers me this place, which he says he can insure me,' resumed Dick after a thoughtful silence, and telling off the circumstances of his position, one by one, upon his fingers; 'Fred, who, I could have taken my affidavit, would not have heard of such a thing, backs Quilp to my astonishment, and urges me to take it also staggerer, number one!My aunt in the country stops the supplies, and writes an affectionate note to say that she has made a new will, and left me out of it staggerer, number two.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told Hall how his aunt at Hastings had been swindled by a stranger with empty portmanteaux.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the aid of a small laundry she was keeping, her aunt supported her children as well as her husband.
-- "I congratulate you, Aunt Sonia,"[C] said Nekhludoff, kissing the hand of Sophia Ivanovna.
-- Your aunt sent you your favorite soap, rose-scented," she said, placing the soap on the table, and the towels on the arms of the chair.
-- Do you remember Katiousha, who lived with Aunt Maria Ivanovna?"
-- "I saw your aunt there," said Nekhludoff.
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