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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his compan-ions said, 'There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.'
-- So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived.
-- At this the robber ran back as fast as 26 Grimms' Fairy Taleshe could to his comrades, and told the captain how a hor-rid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, 'Throw the ras-cal up here!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small pur-chase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for 50 Gulliver's Travelsprivate affairs, came to my house attended only by one ser-vant.
-- It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make 62 Gulliver's Travelswater within the precincts of the palace.
-- When my clothes were finished, which was done in my house (for the largest of theirs would not have been able to hold them), they looked like the patch-work made by the ladies in Eng-land, only that mine were all of a colour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thomas Gradgrind took no heed of these trivialities of course, but passed on as a practical man ought to pass on, either brushing the noisy insects from his thoughts, or consigning them to the House of Correction.
-- She specially applied here at the house to be admitted, as not regularly belonging to our town, and yes, you are right, Bounderby, you are right.'
-- Nor was it merely the stranger who noticed this, because there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.
-- Why here she is at a hundred a year (I give her a hundred, which she is pleased to term handsome), keeping the house of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown!'
-- They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union-Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, An Englishman's house is his castle, Church and State, and God save the Queen, all put together.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- My uncle was rich; his house was his own property, while he had a considerable private income.
-- When we entered the house we found my uncle surrounded by workmen and porters, who were packing up.
-- Out of three rooms of which his house was composed, two were placed at our service, and in a few hours we were installed with all our baggage, the amount of which rather astonished the simple inhabitants of Reykjavik.
-- From hence I went to the house of the Governor--a mere hut in comparison with the Mansion House of Hamburg-but a palace alongside the other Icelandic houses.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lived with him in a smallish house in Westminster, and moved in that good sort of society of people in the government who are not tip-toppers, but who are, or would be, the real intelli-gent power in the nation: people who know what they're talking about, or talk as if they did.
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
-- And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth's excrement.
-- Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrow-ing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.
-- But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, arid the dried-up, elderly, superlatively cor-rect female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman...who waited at table, had been in the house for forty years.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had lived in the house some four months when Monsieur Henri Barronneau had the misfortune to die; at any rate, not a rare misfortune, that.
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