maid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 少女， 处女， 女仆，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The moon shone clear above them, and they rode swiftly abreast, taking that course which the maid must needs have taken if she were to reach her own home.
-- The moon was shining bright upon the clearing, and there in the centre lay the unhappy maid where she had fallen, dead of fear and of fatigue.
-- A maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The maid shall bring your bed-linen directly.
-- A maid opened the door for the prince (Nastasia's ser-vants were all females) and, to his surprise, received his request to announce him to her mistress without any aston-ishment.
-- Next, she learned from the maid that Aglaya had gone into the park before seven o'clock.
-- When the prince reached home, about nine o'clock, he found Vera Lebedeff and the maid on the verandah.
-- The maid did tell me, certainly, that an hour or so since someone had been hammering at the door, and had smashed the bell; she said she would not open the door be-cause she didn't want to wake her master; probably she was too lazy to get up herself.
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：
-- It would be better to take the gold of Munro, and buy the heart of some Huron maid with his gifts.'
-- They pronounced him noble, manly and generous; all that became a warrior, and all that a maid might love.
-- They doubted not that she was lovely in the eyes of the young chief, whose skin and whose sorrow seemed so like her own; but though far from expressing such a preference, it was evident they deemed her less excellent than the maid they mourned.
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：
-- Finally it occurred to me that I would call as though nothing had happened, and send a message in by the maid asking Mrs. Strickland if it was convenient for her to see me.
-- But I was overwhelmed with embarrassment when I said to the maid the phrase I had prepared, and while I waited for the answer in a dark passage I had to call up all my strength of mind not to bolt.
-- The maid came back.
-- I remembered having heard that her sister, Mrs. MacAndrew, outliving her husband but a couple of years, had left money to Mrs. Strickland; and by the look of the house and the trim maid who opened the door I judged that it was a sum adequate to keep the widow in modest comfort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That,' said Mrs Jarley in her exhibition tone, as Nell touched a figure at the beginning of the platform, 'is an unfortunate Maid of Honour in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, who died from pricking her finger in consequence of working upon a Sunday.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less become his station, or his gallantry to involve in the same neglect a lady on whom that beadle had looked with an eye of tenderness and affection, and in whose ear he had whispered sweet words, which, coming from such a quarter, might well thrill the bosom of maid or matron of whatsoever degree; the historian whose pen traces these words--trusting that he knows his place, and that he entertains a becoming reverence for those upon earth to whom high and important authority is delegated--hastens to pay them that respect which their position demands, and to treat them with all that duteous ceremony which their exalted rank, and (by consequence) great virtues, imperatively claim at his hands.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The treachery, or the folly, of my cousin's maid betrayed us.
-- To consult with Colonel Brandon on the best means of effecting the latter, was a thought which immediately followed the resolution of its performance; and as soon she had rung up the maid to take her place by her sister, she hastened down to the drawing-room, where she knew he was generally to be found at a much later hour than the present.
-- All that remained to be done was to be speedy; and, therefore staying only till she could leave Mrs. Jennings's maid with her sister, she hurried down stairs.
-- Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor then followed, and the others were left by themselves, to talk of the travellers, and feel their own dullness, till Mrs. Jennings was summoned to her chaise to take comfort in the gossip of her maid for the loss of her two young companions; and Colonel Brandon immediately afterwards took his solitary way to Delaford.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know the old proverb, 'Call a maid by a married name.'"
-- In the hall he found an evening paper, laid there by the maid and forgotten by Mrs. Hurstwood.
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