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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was apparently living in an Hotel.
-- It was this: I asked myself whether there was not in his soul some deep-rooted instinct of creation, which the circumstances of his life had obscured, but which grew relentlessly, as a cancer may grow in the living tissues, till at last it took possession of his whole being and forced him irresistibly to action.
-- He's living in one tiny room in the most squalid way.
-- Colonel MacAndrew had not exaggerated when he said she would be penniless, and it was necessary for her to earn her own living as quickly as she could.
-- But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My own opinion," said Gideon Spilett, "with due deference to your experience, Pencroft, is that in the double fact of the absolute disappearance of Cyrus and Top, living or dead, there is something unaccountable and unlikely."
-- Not a living creature was to be seen.
-- On returning to the surface, in the half light, he felt a living creature struggling near him.
-- A visit was also paid to the Chimneys, and the settlers could not but congratulate themselves on not having been living there during the hurricane.
-- During one of these excursions, Gideon Spilett managed to get hold of two couples of living gallinaceae.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of these was the proprietor of a giant, and a little lady without legs or arms, who had jogged forward in a van; the other, a silent gentleman who earned his living by showing tricks upon the cards, and who had rather deranged the natural expression of his countenance by putting small leaden lozenges into his eyes and bringing them out at his mouth, which was one of his professional accomplishments.
-- Then there were so many of them with their great glassy eyes and, as they stood one behind the other all about her bed, they looked so like living creatures, and yet so unlike in their grim stillness and silence, that she had a kind of terror of them for their own sakes, and would often lie watching their dusky figures until she was obliged to rise and light a candle, or go and sit at the open window and feel a companionship in the bright stars.
-- Instead she was afraid another would be difficult to get after living there, for the house had a very indifferent character; there was far too much card-playing, and such like.
-- They might get their living by robbing and murdering travellers.
-- And at a table sat the old man himself; the only living creature there; his white face pinched and sharpened by the greediness which made his eyes unnaturally bright counting the money of which his hands had robbed her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People saw nothing holy in this spring morning, in this beauty of God's world--a gift to all living creatures--inclining to peace, good-will and love, but worshiped their own inventions for imposing their will on each other.
-- She found such a place with a lady who was living with her two student boys.
-- While living in the apartments rented by the author, Maslova became infatuated with a jolly clerk living in the same house.
-- She was raised in an intelligent, noble family, and could make her living by honest toil, but she leaves them, yields to her passions, and displays an intelligence, and especially, as you have heard here, gentlemen of the jury, an ability to exert influence on people by that mysterious, lately discovered by science, especially by the school of Charcot, power known by the name of hypnotic suggestion.
-- During the eight months that she was out on bail, she not only became reconciled to her husband, but became so fond of him that the court officers found them living in perfect harmony.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments.
-- Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind.
-- The hillside was quiet and deserted, but from the black of the wood there came now and then a stir of living things.
-- I thought then though I never followed up the thought of what might have happened, or might be happening, to the living things in the sea.
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