landlord是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 房东， 地主，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：
-- cried Paganel, "the landlord of this inn won't make his fortune in a place like this.
-- The landlord of the "Bush Inn," as it was called, was a coarse man with an ill-tempered face, who must have considered himself his principal customer for the gin, brandy and whisky he had to sell.
-- The landlord of the Victoria Hotel lent them two horses, and they set out on the northern road that skirts Twofold Bay.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He declares that your humbug of a landlord revised this gentleman's article the article that was read aloud just now in which you got such a charming dressing-down.'
-- 'My dear Lebedeff, I ' 'Oh, nothing more, nothing more!I was saying to myself but now... 'I am quite unworthy of friendly relations with him,' say I; 'but perhaps as landlord of this house I may, at some future date, in his good time, receive information as to certain imminent and much to be desired changes '' So saying Lebedeff fixed the prince with his sharp little eyes, still in hope that he would get his curiosity satisfied.
-- Both ladies decided to communicate at once with Lebedeff, who, as the friend and landlord of the prince, was also much agitated.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my landlord with threats and inquiries, an old Polish Jew in a long grey coat and greasy slippers.
-- Coming in, I found my landlord going quietly upstairs; he had heard the door close, I suppose.
-- It was the landlord and his two step-sons, sturdy young men of three or four and twenty.
-- I saw the ugly little Jew of a landlord vociferating in his rooms; I saw his two sons marvelling, and the wrinkled old woman's gnarled face as she asked for her cat.
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：
-- The landlord was not a man he cared to tackle, for the police were on his side, and with an oath he turned on his heel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The public-house was kept by a fat old landlord and landlady who made no objection to receiving their new guests, but praised Nelly's beauty and were at once prepossessed in her behalf.
-- All this Mr Codlin did with the air of a man who had made up his mind for the worst and was quite resigned; his eye slowly wandering about during the briskest repartee to observe the effect upon the audience, and particularly the impression made upon the landlord and landlady, which might be productive of very important results in connexion with the supper.
-- These being duly discharged and all things ready for their departure, they took farewell of the landlord and landlady and resumed their journey.
-- Here he had the gratification of finding that his fears were without foundation, for the landlord was leaning against the door-post looking lazily at the rain, which had by this time begun to descend heavily, and no tinkling of cracked bell, nor boisterous shout, nor noisy chorus, gave note of company within.
-- Mr Codlin followed with a willing mind, and soon found that the landlord had not commended his preparations without good reason.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished to remain in the apartment, but the landlord would not permit a single woman to occupy it, and she returned to her aunt.
-- Often, while comparing the position of the landlord with that of the owner of serfs, Nekhludoff found a parallel in the renting of the land to the peasants, instead of working it by hired labor, to what the slave- owners did when they substituted tenancy for serfdom.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlord chuckled again with his lean chuckle, and seemed to be mightily tickled at something beyond my comprehension.
-- But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It chanced one morning, while Oliver's affairs were in this auspicious and comfortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, chimney-sweep, went his way down the High Street, deeply cogitating in his mind his ways and means of paying certain arrears of rent, for which his landlord had become rather pressing.
-- There was the chairman himself, (the landlord of the house,) a coarse, rough, heavy built fellow, who, while the songs were proceeding, rolled his eyes hither and thither, and, seeming to give himself up to joviality, had an eye for everything that was done, and an ear for everything that was said-- and sharp ones, too.
-- 'None,' replied the landlord of the Cripples; for it was he.
-- The landlord reciprocated the old man's laugh; and returned to his guests.
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