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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Harry Grant lost his wife when Robert was born, and during his long voyages he left his little ones in charge of his cousin, a good old lady.
-- He appealed to the patriotism of his countrymen, placed his fortune at the service of the cause, built a ship, and manned it with a picked crew, and leaving his children to the care of his old cousin set off to explore the great islands of the Pacific.
-- Just at this juncture the old cousin died, and Harry Grant's two children were left alone in the world.
-- Tom Austin, the mate, was an old sailor, worthy of all confidence.
-- "This yacht is a portion of our old Caledonia, a fragment of Dumbartonshire, making a voyage by special favor, so that in a manner we are still in our own country.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is an old manuscript.'
-- In these days of nouveaux riches it is refreshing to find a case where the scion of an old county family which has fallen upon evil days is able to make his own fortune and to bring it back with him to restore the fallen grandeur of his line.
-- 'There are two lines of old yew hedge, twelve feet high and impenetrable.
-- He came of the old masterful Baskerville strain, and was the very im-age, they tell me, of the family picture of old Hugo.
-- I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth, to that deadly place.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held a bundle made up of an old faded silk handkerchief that apparently contained all his travelling wardrobe, and wore thick shoes and gaiters, his whole appearance being very un-Russian.
-- Fancy if it had been a hard frost!I never thought it would be so cold in the old country.
-- I was walking about the Nefsky one fine day, prince, in my father's old coat, when she suddenly came out of a shop and stepped into her carriage.
-- The old fellow went straight off to Nastasia Philipovna, touched the floor with his forehead, and began blubbering and beseeching her on his knees to give him back the diamonds.
-- 'There,' she says, 'take your ear-rings, you wretched old miser; although they are ten times dearer than their value to me now that I know what it must have cost Parfen to get them!Give Parfen my compliments,' she says, 'and thank him very much!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Old man,' said he, 'let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter.
-- She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.'
-- The old man feared him and obeyed.
-- As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father.
-- But Juno, when she saw him, knew that he and the old merman's daughter, silver-footed Thetis, had been hatching mischief, so she at once began to upbraid him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now you're here, Mr. Teddy," said she, "I'd be glad if you'd give th' old clock in the parlour a bit of a look.
-- "Get up, old girl," said Hall.
-- My good old furniture!
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.
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