holiday是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 假日， 节日， 假期， 休假，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed to-morrow morning for a good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at home.
-- An old, old man and woman, with their chil-dren and their children's children, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was noon; and the weather, that had threatened rain, began to clear up, while gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A stable boy, spruce and smart in his holiday attire, met them with a broom in his hand, and followed them.
-- But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him.
-- When half the children had been dressed, some peasant women in holiday dress, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-shed and stopped shyly.
-- And more hateful than anyone was Kitty for falling in with the tone of gaiety with which this gentleman regarded his visit in the country, as though it were a holiday for himself and everyone else.
-- "It's all holiday for them," he thought; "but these are no holiday matters, they won't wait, and there's no living without them."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away we went, however, on our holiday excursion; and the firstthing we did was to stop at a church, where Mr. Barkis tied thehorse to some rails, and went in with Peggotty, leaving little Em'lyand me alone in the chaise.
-- Among my boys, this summer holiday time, I see an old manmaking giant kites, and gazing at them in the air, with a delight forwhich there are no words.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.
-- She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax. She ought to go and she was longing to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing 554 Emmaevery other motive of goodwill.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba's companion, as a gauge of their reconciliation, had been granted a week's holiday to visit her sister, who was married to a thriving hurdler and cattle-crib-maker living in a delightful labyrinth of hazel copse not far beyond Yalbury.
-- These were so convinced by such genuine appeals to heart and understanding both that they soon began to crowd in abundantly, among the foremost being visible Jan Coggan and Joseph Poorgrass, who were holiday keeping here to-day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There wasuniversal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his working-clothes, Joe was a well-knit characteristic-looking blacksmith; in his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances, than anything else.
-- Why should he suppose it necessary to be purified by suffering for his holiday clothes?
-- Biddy says, 'I know he will be very glad to have it by word of mouth, it is holiday time, you want to see him, go!'
-- While he was drinking his moderate allowance, he said, with nothing to lead up to it, and after having appeared rather fidgety,--"What do you think of my meaning to take a holiday on Monday, Mr.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flutter of her manner, in the unwonted noise of the streets; the spare shawl, carried unfolded on her arm; the heavy umbrella, and little basket; the loose long-fingered gloves, to which her hands were unused; all bespoke an old woman from the country, in her plain holiday clothes, come into Coketown on an expedition of rare occurrence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three friends dined together on the auspicious occasion; the factory and the factory wives and children made holiday and dined too; even Bleeding Heart Yard dined and was full of meat.
-- It seemed to fill to inconvenience the little bar in which the widow landlady and her two daughters received him; it was much too big for the narrow wainscoted room with a bagatelle-board in it, that was first proposed for his reception; it perfectly swamped the little private holiday sitting-room of the family, which was finally given up to him.
-- 'It is a holiday with him, and he comes to see his old friends, who are always glad to see him,' observed the Father of the Marshalsea.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told her how he had been at school in Vevay, where the boys never wore hats and had a fleet of boats on the lake, and for holiday fun went on walking trips about Switzerland with their teachers.
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