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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If, on the contrary, we DO know all living kinds, we must necessarily seek for the animal in question amongst those marine beings already classed; and, in that case, I should be disposed to admit the existence of a gigantic narwhal.
-- I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
-- Take one of these living birds, and carry it in your hand."
-- There was unusual life and vigour: this was truly living light!
-- But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life.
-- Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass.
-- If this were human life, if these were human beings, living in a complete world, then what was her own world, outside?
-- "But," Gerald insisted, "you don't allow one man to take away his neighbour's living, so why should you allow one nation to take away the living from another nation?"
-- Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof has been kept whole hitherto; but as the clergyman's stipend is only twenty pounds per annum, and a house with two rooms, threatening speedily to determine into one, no clergyman will undertake the duties of pastor: especially as it is currently reported that his flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets.
-- With this intention I asked Mrs. Dean why Heathcliff let Thrushcross Grange, and preferred living in a situation and residence so much inferior.
-- At last, our curate (we had a curate then who made the living answer by teaching the little Lintons and Earnshaws, and farming his bit of land himself) advised that the young man should be sent to college; and Mr. Earnshaw agreed, though with a heavy spirit, for he said 'Hindley was nought, and would never thrive as where he wandered.
-- I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.
-- I guess she is; yet she looks bravely,' replied the girl, 'and she talks as if she thought of living to see it grow a man.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first ''Living backwards!'
-- You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're his last card, and by the living thunder, John, he's yours!Back to back, says I.
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