offspring是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 子孙后代, 动物的幼仔，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：
-- Human beings there were none, not a native appeared; not even one of the GUASSOS, the degenerate offspring of Indians and Spaniards, dashed across the plain like a shadow, his flying steed dripping with blood from the cruel thrusts inflicted by the gigantic spurs of his master's naked feet.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the king knew that he must be the valiant offspring of a god, so he kept him in Lycia, gave him his daughter in marriage, and made him of equal honour in the kingdom with him-self; and the Lycians gave him a piece of land, the best in all the country, fair with vineyards and tilled fields, to have and to hold.
-- Many a time have you slobbered your wine in baby helplessness over my shirt; I had infinite trouble with you, but I knew that heaven had vouchsafed me no offspring of my own, and I made a son of you, Achilles, that in my hour of need you might protect me.
-- She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae.
-- Then with a loud voice he chided with his father's horses saying, 'Xanthus and Balius, famed offspring of Podarge this time when we have done fighting be sure and bring your driver safely back to the host of the Achaeans, and do not leave him dead on the plain as you did Patroclus.'
-- Then Achilles set his foot on his chest and spoiled him of his armour, vaunting over him and say-ing, 'Lie there begotten of a river though you be, it is hard for you to strive with the offspring of Saturn's son.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me they were creatures made of the offspring of the Beast People, that Moreau had invented.
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：
-- exclaimed the proprietor of the condemned an-imal, aloud, without regard to the whispering tones used by the others; 'spare the foal of Miriam!it is the come-ly offspring of a faithful dam, and would willingly injure naught.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for the rats themselves, they flourished, they were glad in the land, and each female produced from ten to two hundred offspring every year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Micawber andour offspring will accompany me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sergeant's vicious phases being the offspring of impulse, and his virtuous phases of cool meditation, the latter had a modest tendency to be oftener heard of than seen.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and offspring are secure, there is less necessity indeed there is no necessity for an efficient family, and the specialisation of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as the offspring of delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had present-ed itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.
-- Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or ex-citements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations 260 Frankensteinof his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One way and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
-- She left to my care her only child, a little girl, the offspring of her first guilty connection, who was then about three years old.
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