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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world.
-- He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.
-- Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy?
-- It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
-- It touches one's sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
-- 'She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman, 'by the overseer's order.
-- 'The old story,' he said, shaking his head: 'no wedding-ring, I see.
-- But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once--a parish child--the orphan of a workhouse--the humble, half-starved drudge--to be cuffed and buffeted through the world--despised by all, and pitied by none.
-- 'The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is nine year old to-day.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are my old friends.
-- And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, 'There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.'
-- They had not long separated, when Miss Bingley came towards her, and with an expression of civil disdain accost-ed her: 'So, Miss Eliza, I hear you are quite delighted with George Wickham!Your sister has been talking to me about him, and asking me a thousand questions; and I find that the young man quite forgot to tell you, among his other communication, that he was the son of old Wickham, the late Mr. Darcy's steward.
-- The younger girls formed hopes of COMING OUT a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte's dying an old maid.
-- The old lady is Mrs. Jenkinson, who lives with them; the other is Miss de Bourgh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides the two men, a notched and disfigured bench, immovable from the wall, with a draught-board rudely hacked upon it with a knife, a set of draughts, made of old buttons and soup bones, a set of dominoes, two mats, and two or three wine bottles.
-- 'A little dry, but I have my old sauce here,' returned John Baptist, holding up his knife.
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- He sat in the same place as the day died, looking at the dull houses opposite, and thinking, if the disembodied spirits of former inhabitants were ever conscious of them, how they must pity themselves for their old places of imprisonment.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
-- 'How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you you're ready to fly out the window or cry?'
-- 'You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Jose-phine.
-- And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!'
-- Somehow the sight of the old shoes had a good effect upon the girls, for Mother was coming, and everyone brightened to welcome her.
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