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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.
-- She realised that the old life was gone and done with.
-- He wore an old Norfolk jacket, and he had not shaved for several days.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must have walked like a somnambulist, without any knowledge of my steps, and Top must have guided me here, after having dragged me from the waves... Come, Top!Come, old dog!"
-- Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race unhappily."
-- Some old trunks, bent with age, showed black against the verdant grass which covered the ground.
-- The opening which it had made was so large that the volume of water which escaped through this new outlet was at least treble that which before passed through the old one.
-- The settlers, having arrived at Prospect Heights, went immediately towards that point of the lake near which was the old opening now uncovered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOPCHAPTER 1A lthough I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
-- Then, the crowds for ever passing and repassing on the bridges (on those which are free of toll at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs between green banks which grow wider and wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and lounge away one's life, and lie sleeping in the sun upon a hot tarpaulin, in a dull, slow, sluggish barge, must be happiness unalloyed and where some, and a very different class, pause with heavier loads than they, remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best.
-- Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrush, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all night long, half mad with joy!Poor bird!the only neighbouring thing at all akin to the other little captives, some of whom, shrinking from the hot hands of drunken purchasers, lie drooping on the path already, while others, soddened by close contact, await the time when they shall be watered and freshened up to please more sober company, and make old clerks who pass them on their road to business, wonder what has filled their breasts with visions of the country.
-- 'I am sure you will not do that,' said the little creature,' you are such a very old gentleman, and walk so slow yourself.'
-- It was an old man with long grey hair, whose face and figure as he held the light above his head and looked before him as he approached, I could plainly see.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warden was about to shut the door, when a pale, severe, wrinkled face of an old woman with disheveled hair was thrust out.
-- The old woman began to say something to Maslova.
-- The old woman pressed her forehead to the grating, and said in a hoarse voice: "Above all, don't speak too much; stick to one thing, and that is all."
-- The sixth child, begotten of a passing gypsy, was a girl, who would have shared the same fate, but it happened that one of the two old maidens entered the cow-shed to reprimand the milkmaids for carelessness in skimming the cream, and there saw the mother with the healthy and beautiful child.
-- The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He drained it, and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face.
-- He smiled quietly, in his old way.
-- "The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Ph脜聯nician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.
-- I sat down on it, and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day.
-- I was careful, however, to show no concern and to abstain from any pursuit of them, and in the course of a day or two things got back to the old footing.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn't have had any hand in the mischief.
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