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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Totski, who was living abroad at this time, very soon forgot all about the child; but five years after, returning to Russia, it struck him that he would like to look over his estate and see how matters were going there, and, arrived at his bailiff's house, he was not long in discovering that among the children of the latter there now dwelt a most lovely little girl of twelve, sweet and intelligent, and bright, and promising to develop beauty of most unusual quality-as to which last Totski was an undoubted authority.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a man now living could withstand them, but they heard my words, and were persuaded by them.
-- No man living could equal him in the marshalling of chariots and foot soldiers.
-- They made a living fence, spear to spear, shield to shield, buckler to buckler, helmet to helmet, and man to man.
-- He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lycophron a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera, but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans.
-- Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus bore him to ever-flowing Spercheius a woman mated with a god but he was called son of Borus son of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's only the living tissue I've changed, and only for as long as I'm alive.. .
-- For the most part the fibres of a living creature are no more opaque than water."
-- I told no living soul, because I meant to flash my work upon the world with crushing effect and become famous at a blow.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats.
-- Even had it been under commonplace circumstances, it would have made me a trifle thoughtful; but in the first place was the singulari-ty of an educated man living on this unknown little island, and coupled with that the extraordinary nature of his lug-gage.
-- No sooner was that done than he opened the door of it, and tilting the thing on one end turned its living contents out on the ground.
-- 'It is the puma,' I said, 'still alive, but so cut and mutilated as I pray I may never see living flesh again.
-- To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsports-manlike to touch him.
-- If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
-- 'If he is living still, he'll be able to tell you.'
-- He was the head of all the Keddah operations the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India, and who knew more about the ways of elephants than any living man.
-- Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things the wild elephant.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said; 'what mattered it whether he struck the rock living or dead!feeling would soon be over.
-- said the scout, erecting his tall person with an air of military pride; 'there are not many echoes among these hills that haven't rung with the crack of my rifle, nor is there the space of a square mile atwixt Horican and the river, that 'killdeer' hasn't dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it a brute beast.
-- There are them in the camp who say and think, man, to lie still, should not be buried while the breath is in the body; and certain it is that in the hurry of that evening, the doctors had but little time to say who was living and who was dead.
-- Living masses of the English, to the amount, in the whole, of near three thousand, were moving slowly across the plain, toward the common center, and gradually approached each other, as they converged to the point of their march, a vista cut through the lofty trees, where the road to the Hudson entered the forest.
-- But the prohibition had ceased; and for the first time since the per-petrators of those foul deeds which had assisted to disfigure the scene were gone, living human beings had now pre-sumed to approach the place.
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