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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces.
-- We are old friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born and cemented amidst extreme dangers.
-- An old gunner with a grey beard that I can see now with steady eye and grave face, went up to the gun and took a long aim.
-- My flocks, like those of Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies of the ocean.
-- In the centre stood an immense table, covered with pamphlets, amongst which were some newspapers, already of old date.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church.
-- Her father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousness.
-- It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope just beyond the narrow little lake of Willey Water.
-- If the national crown-piece is an old hat, then the thieving gent may have it."
-- "But can the national or racial hat be an old hat?"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy.
-- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
-- You scandalous old hypocrite!'
-- A pleasant suggestion and then, if the surly old man come in, he may believe his prophecy verified we cannot be damper, or colder, in the rain than we are here.
-- I blushed at my inconsideration: but, without showing further consciousness of the offence, I hastened to add 'The truth is, sir, I passed the first part of the night in ' Here I stopped afresh I was about to say 'perusing those old volumes,' then it would have revealed my knowledge of their written, as well as their printed, contents; so, correcting myself, I went on 'in spelling over the name scratched on that window ledge.
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：
-- she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage and then she scrambled back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and began winding up the ball again.
-- And once she had really frightened her old nurse by shouting suddenly in her ear, 'Nurse!Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a bone.'
-- 'So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room,' thought Alice: 'warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire.
-- Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 茫聙聙TO THE HESITATING PURCHASERIf sailor tales to sailor tunes,Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons,And buccaneers, and buried gold,And all the old romance, retoldExactly in the ancient way,Can please, as me they pleased of old,The wiser youngsters of today:茫聙聙 So be it, and fall on!If not,If studious youth no longer crave,His ancient appetites forgot,Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,Or Cooper of the wood and wave:So be it, also!And may IAnd all my pirates share the graveWhere these and their creations lie!
-- 茫聙聙茫聙聙茫聙聙PART ONEThe Old Buccaneer1 The Old Sea-dog at the "Admiral Benbow"QUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
-- I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
-- in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
-- People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
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