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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
-- A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet.
-- Then the butcher gave him a flask of ale, saying, 'There, drink and refresh yourself; your cow will give you no milk: don't you see she is an old beast, good for nothing but the slaughter-house?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new- fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remem-ber upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.
-- I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.
-- I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business 12 Gulliver's Travelsamong the sailors; but it would not turn to account.
-- The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very dif-ferent from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world.
-- He then commanded his general (who was an old ex-perienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums 43beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you are!No little Gradgrind had ever known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Professor Owen, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.
-- A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty.
-- 'My mother left me to my grandmother,' said Bounderby; 'and, according to the best of my remembrance, my grandmother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived.
-- That was the cot of my infancy; an old egg-box.
-- Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory--my uncle being absent at the time--I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues--i.e., I was hungry, and was about to rouse up our old French cook, when my uncle, Professor Von Hardwigg, suddenly opened the street door, and came rushing upstairs.
-- Though lying in the centre of a town, it was perfectly rural in its aspect--half wood, half bricks, with old-fashioned gables--one of the few old houses spared by the great fire of 1842.
-- When I say a nice house, I mean a handsome house--old, tottering, and not exactly comfortable to English notions: a house a little off the perpendicular and inclined to fall into the neighboring canal; exactly the house for a wandering artist to depict; all the more that you could scarcely see it for ivy and a magnificent old tree which grew over the door.
-- And the old cook, the young lady, the Professor and I were the sole inhabitants.
-- "And yet," he muttered to himself, "it is old Icelandic, I am sure of it."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father was the once well-known R. A., old Sir Malcolm Reid.
-- To shake off the old and sordid connexions and subjections.
-- But as a matter of fact, it was some old impression of authority on her own mind or soul that she could not get rid of.
-- And armies were ridiculous, and old buffers of generals altogether, the red-faced Kitch-ener supremely.
-- Wragby was a long low old house in brown stone, be-gun about the middle of the eighteenth century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinc-tion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To come out of the twilight of pillars and arches dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging was to plunge into a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade.
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