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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two children were living in this touching manner in Dundee, struggling patiently and courageously with their poverty.
-- Suddenly a furious avalanche came down, an avalanche of living animals mad with fear.
-- About thirty nomadic Indians were living there in rude cabins made of branches, pasturing immense herds of milch cows, sheep, oxen, and horses.
-- After he had succeeded in disengaging his hand, though not without difficulty, from the living vise in which it was held, a lively conversation ensued.
-- These bogs had already proved fatal to more than one living thing, for Robert, who had got a good bit ahead of the party, came rushing back at full gallop, calling out:"Monsieur Paganel, Monsieur Paganel, a forest of horns."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, no, that was a living voice.'
-- The work to a man of my temperament was mechanical and uninteresting, but the privilege of living with youth, of helping to mould those young minds, and of impressing them with one's own character and ideals, was very dear to me.
-- 'By the way, Mortimer,' said I as we jolted along the rough road, 'I suppose there are few people living within driving distance of this whom you do not know?'
-- He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.
-- As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
-- I was living on other people abroad.
-- The prince had been left an orphan when quite a little child, and Pavlicheff had entrusted him to an old lady, a relative of his own, living in the country, the child needing the fresh air and exercise of country life.
-- Did she mean because Nas-tasia had been living with Totski?
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knew that she was to pay four dollars for her board and room, and now she felt that it would be an exceedingly gloomy round, living with these people.
-- She proposed to earn her living honestly.
-- He decided he would lose no time living in hotels but would rent a flat.
-- He knew it to be true that unconsciously he was brushing elbows with fortune the livelong day; that a hundred or five hundred thousand gave no one the privilege of living more than comfortably in so wealthy a place.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Widow Doug- las she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, con- sidering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
-- Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods some-times, and so that was a rest to me.
-- They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn't nobody but just me and pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on ac-count of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was left, because the farm didn't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how I come to be here.
-- I had to account for things some way, so I says: 'My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my broth-er Ike.
-- All of a sudden the lightning let go a perfect sluice of white glare, and somebody sings out: 'By the living jingo, here's the bag of gold on his breast!'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am the Talking Cricket and I have been living in this room for more than one hundred years."
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