house是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 房屋； 商业机构； [H-，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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution a fine January morning, when there was just enough blue sky visible to make cheerfully-disposed people wish for more, and an occasional gleam of silvery sunshine, Oak put the lamb into a respectable Sunday basket, and stalked across the fields to the house of Mrs. Hurst, the aunt George, the dog walking behind, with a countenance of great concern at the serious turn pastoral affairs seemed to be taking.
-- "I used to go to his house a-courting my first wife, Charlotte, who was his dairymaid.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- The front of the lodging-house is at right angles to the road, and looks out upon a little garden, so that you see the side of the house in section, as it were, from the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve.
-- Beneath the wall of the house front there lies a channel, a fathom wide, paved with cobble-stones, and beside it runs a graveled walk bordered by geraniums and oleanders and pomegranates set in great blue and white glazed earthenware pots.
-- The house itself is three stories high, without counting the attics under the roof.
-- It is built of rough stone, and covered with the yellowish stucco that gives a mean appearance to almost every house in Paris.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We possessed a house 31in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
-- In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa.
-- When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
-- It ap-peared to me sacrilege so soon to leave the repose, akin to death, of the house of mourning and to rush into the thick of life.
-- 46 FrankensteinHis manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
-- The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an islandset in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
-- From within the house floatedthe soft voice of Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara, as she called to the little black girl who carried her basket of keys.
-- He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year atTwelve Oaks.
-- She was shiningblack, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her threedaughters, the terror of the other house servants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,--an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.
-- But I ran no farther than the house door, for there I ran head-foremost into a party of soldiers with their muskets, one of whom held out a pair of handcuffs to me, saying, "Here you are, look sharp, come on!"
-- Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
-- Is the house afire?"
-- I had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town,--as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first he refused, but she wept still more and more, and fell at his feet, till at last he consented; but the moment she came to her father's house the guards awoke and he was taken prisoner again.
-- Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.'
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