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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am surprised not to see the porter, but .... it is a holiday ... and the man has gone off ... Drunken fool!Why have they not got rid of him?
-- One gentleman on his holiday had broken off his engagement on her account, and an old general had quarrelled with his only son for the same reason.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm going to have a damned Bank Holiday to-night.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When school hours were over, he was even the com-panion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard.
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：
-- Chapter XXIVShortly before Christmas Dirk Stroeve came to ask me to spend the holiday with him.
-- When he set out on his holiday in the Mediterranean he had every intention of returning to London and his appointment at St. Thomas's.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall very often be able to look in when I come into town I dare say, and I shall send you a letter sometimes, and when the quarter comes round, I can get a holiday of course; and then see if we don't take little Jacob to the play, and let him know what oysters means.'
-- One evening, a holiday night with them, Nell and her grandfather went out to walk.
-- But they were both up very early for all that, and had small appetites for breakfast and less for dinner, and were in a state of great excitement when Barbara's mother came in, with astonishing accounts of the fineness of the weather out of doors (but with a very large umbrella notwithstanding, for people like Barbara's mother seldom make holiday without one), and when the bell rang for them to go up stairs and receive their quarter's money in gold and silver.
-- 'It is a holiday with us, good Sir,' returned the sexton mildly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The peasants, recognizing Maria Ivanovna's nephew, led his horse to the driest spot, where he dismounted, then they escorted him to the church filled with a holiday crowd.
-- Everything was solemn, joyous and beautiful; the priest in his bright, silver chasuble, dotted with gilt crosses, the deacon, the chanters in holiday surplice of gold and silver, the spruce volunteer singers with oiled hair, the joyous melodies of holiday songs, the ceaseless blessing of the throng by the priests with flower-bedecked tern candles with the constantly repeated exclamations: "Christ has risen!Christ has risen!"
-- His aunts in holiday attire, the doctor and a neighbor were taking lunch standing.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Hindley had gone from home one afternoon, and Heathcliff presumed to give himself a holiday on the strength of it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hoping to impress the lesson more deeply, Mrs. March, who had a good deal of humor, resolved to finish off the trial in an appropriate manner, so she gave Hannah a holiday and let the girls enjoy the full effect of the play system.
-- As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs.
-- 'I'll learn plain cooking for my holiday task, and the din-ner party I have shall be a success.'
-- The old orchard wore its holiday attire.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood.
-- It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cask of oil, and bolted down her bursting hatches; and now, in glad holiday apparel, was joyously, though somewhat vain-gloriously, sailing round among the widely-separated ships on the ground, previous to pointing her prow for home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.
-- The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning-weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on, which makes a vast difference.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, Hare-l why, Joanna, they never see a holiday from year's end to year's end; never go to the circus, nor theater, nor nigger shows, nor nowheres.'
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