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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
-- Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presump-tion and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?
-- During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, Abel was the best shot in the Troop, a realsharpshooter who could pick out the eye of a squirrel at seventy-five yards, and, too, he knew all about living outdoors,building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.
-- His habits of living and his ideas changed, but his manners he would not change,even had he been able to change them.
-- Aunt Pauline and her husband, a little old man, with a formal, brittle courtesy and the absent air of one living inan older age, lived on a plantation on the river, far more isolated than Tara.
-- She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of oldladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent.
-- Living with Charles' blood kin, seeing the home from which he came, Scarlett could now understand a little betterthe boy who had made her wife, widow and mother in such rapid succession.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- (I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.)
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment.
-- "What do you suppose," said Mr. Jaggers, bending forward to look at the ground, and then throwing his head back to look at the ceiling,--"what do you suppose you are living at the rate of?"
-- "Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body?
-- As to altering my way of living by enlarging my expenses, I put it to him whether in our present unsettled and difficult circumstances, it would not be simply ridiculous, if it were no worse?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the fisherman, 'she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.'
-- Then the children went home to-gether, and were heartily delighted, and if they have not died, they are living still.
-- Hardly had he formed the wish than the marshal began, and said: 'Your majesty, we live joyously here, but how is the queen living in the tower?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- The author's way of living in that country.
-- Some were condensing air into a dry tangible sub-stance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
-- Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-chil-dren; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He has his points as a Cackler still, but he can't get a living out of them.'
-- I've got my living out of the horthe-riding all my life, I know; but I conthider that I lay down the philothophy of the thubject when I thay to you, Thquire, make the betht of uth: not the wurtht!'
-- She had a great aunt living in these very times called Lady Scadgers.
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