living是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 活的， 有生命的， 天然的， 逼真的n. 生活， 生计，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These notes he reproduced on the blackboard, in his fastidious script, murmuring, "Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but pondering upon it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This house was let out in tiny tenements and was inhabited by working people of all kinds tailors, locksmiths, cooks, Germans of sorts, girls picking up a living as best they could, petty clerks, etc.
-- There are a lot of people living there besides ourselves.
-- 'Since then, sir,' he went on after a brief pause 'Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through in-formation given by evil- intentioned persons in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yel-low ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
-- In the first place, would you have guessed, dear Rodya, that your sister has been living with me for the last six weeks and we shall not be separated in the future.
-- Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that perhaps for some reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old- womanish, fancies) I should do better to go on living by myself, apart, than with them, af-ter the wedding.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it had been Aladdin's palace, roe's egg and all, I suppose I couldnot have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.
-- As I did not even know where Miss Betsey lived, I wrote a longletter to Peggotty, and asked her, incidentally, if she remembered;pretending that I had heard of such a lady living at a certain place Inamed at random, and had a curiosity to know if it were the same.
-- How much have I to bethankful for in living with Mr.
-- My echoing footsteps went to no other tune, but were asconstant to that as if I had come home to build my castles in the airat a living mother's side.
-- said I, flushed with the possibledignity of living in chambers.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mild-ness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but di-rected chiefly by her own.
-- Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone with-out liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his love-ly daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.
-- To be con-stantly living with an ill-tempered person, must be dreadful.
-- 'I am not supposing him at all an unnatural creature, in suspecting that he may have learnt to be above his con-nexions, and to care very little for any thing but his own pleasure, from living with those who have always set him the example of it.
-- He was a married man, with only one living child, a girl, about Jane's age: and Jane became their guest, paying them long visits and growing a favourite with all; and before she was nine years old, his daughter's great fondness for her, and his own wish of being a real friend, united to produce an offer from Colonel Campbell of undertaking the whole charge of her education.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- He found his opportunity in the death of a ewe, mother of a living lamb.
-- It seemed as if the spot was unoccupied by a living soul.
-- There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure.
-- It has been observed more than once that the causes of love are chiefly subjective, and Boldwood was a living testimony to the truth of the proposition.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the end of the first year the widow's suspicions had reached such a pitch that she began to wonder how it was that a retired merchant with a secure income of seven or eight thousand livres, the owner of such magnificent plate and jewelry handsome enough for a kept mistress, should be living in her house.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her cloth-ing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head.
-- She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.
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