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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After about two years, an odd circumstance presented itself, which put the old thought of making some attempt for my liberty again in my head.
-- These I secured first, with some powder-horns and a small bag of shot, and two old rusty swords.
-- The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat, which had a little kid by her, which she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; for when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her, till I came and took her up; and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me, upon my shoulders, the kid followed me quite to my enclosure; upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms, and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have bred it up tame; but it would not eat; so I was forced to kill it and eat it myself.
-- This was the more strange to me because, though I had killed a wild cat, as I called it, with my gun, yet I thought it was quite a different kind from our European cats; but the young cats were the same kind of house-breed as the old one; and both my cats being females, I thought it very strange.
-- I cannot express what a satisfaction it was to me to come into my old hutch, and lie down in my hammock-bed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent.
-- The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
-- I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.
-- His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.
-- To the former her raillery was probably, as far as it regarded only himself, perfectly indifferent; but to the latter it was at first incomprehensible; and when its object was understood, she hardly knew whether most to laugh at its absurdity, or censure its impertinence, for she considered it as an unfeeling reflection on the colonel's advanced years, and on his forlorn condition as an old bachelor.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What does it not hold for the weary!What old illusion of hope is not here forever repeated!Says the soul of the toiler to itself, "I shall soon be free.
-- "Well, young lady," observed the old gentleman, looking at her somewhat kindly, "what is it you wish?"
-- The old humiliation of her plea, rewarded by curt denial.
-- By the time she was dressed he was gone, and she, Minnie, and the baby ate together, the latter being just old enough to sit in a high chair and disturb the dishes with a spoon.
-- He knew by name, and could greet personally with a "Well, old fellow," hundreds of actors, merchants, politicians, and the general run of successful characters about town, and it was part of his success to do so.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
-- Well, then, the old thing commenced again.
-- Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
-- We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.
-- Chapter III ELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old WMiss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know how this really happened, yet the fact remains that one fine day this piece of wood found itself in the shop of an old carpenter.
-- At the words, the door opened and a dapper little old man came in.
-- The two little old men, each with his own wig back on his own head, shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives.
-- The furniture could not have been much simpler: a very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble-down table.
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