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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way.
-- Previously he had been a bailiff for a short time, and earlier still a shepherd only, having from his childhood assisted his father in tending the flocks of large proprietors, till old Gabriel sank to rest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- The very knitted woolen petticoat that she wears beneath a skirt made of an old gown, with the wadding protruding through the rents in the material, is a sort of epitome of the sitting-room, the dining-room, and the little garden; it discovers the cook, it foreshadows the lodgers--the picture of the house is completed by the portrait of its mistress.
-- The two sets of rooms on the second floor were respectively occupied by an old man named Poiret and a man of forty or thereabouts, the wearer of a black wig and dyed whiskers, who gave out that he was a retired merchant, and was addressed as M. Vautrin.
-- Was she expiating the flaunting triumphs of a youth overcrowded with pleasures by an old age in which she was shunned by every passer-by?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned un-til he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
-- When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
-- Good God!In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
-- It was indeed but a pass-ing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come tosee him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!And that's allthe boys talk about, too, that and their old Troop.
-- And just before we got home, he'd about kicked the stable downand half-killed Strawberry, Ma's old stallion.
-- "I do, and a sillier old lady I never met in all my life."
-- "But do you suppose," he said, "that maybe Ashley hadn't told her he was going to announce it tomorrow nightand she was mad at him for not telling her, an old friend, before he told everybody else?
-- No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony'saim.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
-- You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder.
-- She's a coming!Get behind the door, old chap, and have the jack-towel betwixt you."
-- "Pip, old chap!You'll do yourself a mischief.
-- "You know, old chap," said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, "I Bolted, myself, when I was your age--frequent--and as a boy I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your Bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- Then he went his way very sorrowful; but the old fox came and said, 'Why did not you listen to me?
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