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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I shall have the satisfaction of causing you to be strictly educated; and you will be a living proof to all who come into communication with you, of the advantages of the training you will receive.
-- I ha' lived under 't so long, for that I ha' had'n the pity and comforting words o' th' best lass living or dead.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No living being should ever know.
-- "And now that we have come to a thorough understanding, not a word to any living soul.
-- From being coated with shining and resplendent lava, it became living rock.
-- Guided by an instinct peculiar to the dwellers in mountain regions and water finders, he "smelt" the living spring through the rock.
-- Our constant and successive descents had taken us quite thirty leagues into the interior of the earth, that is to say that there were above us thirty leagues, nearly a hundred miles, of rocks, and oceans, and continents, and towns, to say nothing of living inhabitants.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Chatterley, still disgusted at her brother's defection, had departed and was living in a little flat in London.
-- At first they fascinated Connie with a sort of horror; she felt she was living underground.
-- Connie and Clifford had now been nearly two years at Wragby, living their vague life of absorption in Clifford and his work.
-- It's the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.
-- Little by little, living together, two people fall into a sort of unison, they vibrate so intricately to one another.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jeremiah never courted me; t'ant likely that he would, after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he'd done.
-- 'Yes, truly!It is easy for him to talk of reparation, fresh from journeying and junketing in foreign lands, and living a life of vanity and pleasure.
-- Innocent, in the mist through which she saw her father, and the prison, and the turbid living river that flowed through it and flowed on.
-- 'She earns her own living entirely.
-- That she went to the ripped-up window in the little room by the street door to connect her palpitating heart, through the glass, with living things beyond and outside the haunted house.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
-- A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the paint-ed ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
-- Jo, laughed, and Meg sharply ordered her not to talk, then amiably promised to make her hair curl, and fell asleep to dream of living in her castle in the air.
-- We have such funny times, and now I can enjoy them, for everyone is so desperately good, it's like living in a nest of turtledoves.
-- Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always be-fore her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and to sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God.
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