old是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 年老的； …岁的； 长时间的， 老的； 过去的，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of death, perhaps," muttered back Passepartout, "but of love that ugly old hag?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He spoke more seriously, occasionally forgetting what he was talking about: "Reading old Gray?
-- A fat old man and dirty and unvirtuous was the Doc; his grammar was doubtful, his vocabulary alarming, and his references to his rival, good Dr. Needham, were scandalous; yet he invoked in Martin a vision of making chemicals explode with much noise and stink and of seeing animalcules that no boy in Elk Mills had ever beheld.
-- You don't appreciate but-- Old man now.
-- Only one in county but--I'm an old failure."
-- And remember the old man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing.
-- This German was moving out then, and so the fourth floor on this staircase would be untenanted except by the old woman.
-- 'That's a good thing anyway,' he thought to himself, as he rang the bell of the old woman's flat.
-- In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
-- The old woman stood facing him in silence and looking inquiringly at him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 299Some Old Scenes, and Some New PeopleCHAPTER XXIII .
-- The evening wind made such a disturbancejust now, among some tall old elmtrees at the bottom of the garden,that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing thatway.
-- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who werewhispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell intoa violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their lateconfidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, someweather-beaten ragged old rooks'-nests burdening their higherbranches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
-- 'We thought- Mr. Copperfield thought- it was quite a largerookery; but the nests were very old ones, and the birds havedeserted them a long while.'
-- There was atwitch of Miss Betsey's head, after each of these sentences, as if herown old wrongs were working within her, and she repressed anyplainer reference to them by strong constraint.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.
-- Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and qua-drille.
-- She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
-- But Mr. Weston is almost an old man.
-- But I am a partial old friend.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finding that the area of a single county did not afford a canvas large enough for this purpose, and that there were objections to an invented name, I disinterred the old one.
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- The practice of divination by Bible and key, the regarding of valentines as things of serious import, the shearing-supper, and the harvest-home, have, too, nearly disappeared in the wake of the old houses; and with them have gone, it is said, much of that love of fuddling to which the village at one time was notoriously prone.
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