age是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 年龄； 时代； 老年； 长时间v. (使) 变老，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Book the First Recalled to Life A tale of two citiesI The Period t was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was Ithe age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had ev-erything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present peri-od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
-- The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the chil-41dren had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger.
-- High vaulted rooms with cool uncarpeted floors, great dogs upon the hearths for the burning of wood in winter time, and all luxuries befitting the state of a mar-quis in a luxurious age and country.
-- She said it aloud, but added to herself, as she resumed her knitting: 'Hah!Good day, age about forty, height about five feet nine, black hair, generally rather handsome visage, complexion dark, eyes dark, thin, long and sallow face, aq-uiline nose but not straight, having a peculiar inclination 255towards the left cheek which imparts a sinister expression!
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the Councillor, who knew nothing of the age in which he at that moment was.
-- When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.
-- On her bosom she had a real Elderflower, and in her yellow waving hair a wreath of the flowers; her eyes were so large and blue that it was a pleasure to look at them; she kissed the boy, and now they were of the same age and felt alike.
-- Father and mother, sister and brother say thou to one another without regard to age or rank.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have struck him as absurd if he had been told that he would not get a position with the salary he required, especially as he expected nothing out of the way; he only wanted what the men of his own age and standing did get, and he was no worse qualified for performing duties of the kind than any other man.
-- Levin was almost of the same age as Oblonsky; their intimacy did not rest merely on champagne.
-- She saw that girls of Kitty's age formed some sort of clubs, went to some sort of lectures, mixed freely in men's society; drove about the streets alone, many of them did not curtsey, and, what was the most important thing, all the girls were firmly convinced that to choose their husbands was their own affair, and not their parents'.
-- "Merciful heavens, Tanya!You're the same age as my Seryozha," she added, addressing the little girl as she ran in.
-- Now, on the contrary, she was perforce decked out in a way so inconsistent with her age and her figure, that her one anxiety was to contrive that the contrast between these adornments and her own exterior should not be too appalling.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over without corpses being found in every direction.
-- On going into a barber's to get shaved he learned that these ancient men were all at least eighty years old, at which age they are permitted to wear yellow, which is the Imperial colour.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the assistant tagged the pig with a tin disk in its ear and restored it to the battery jar, Gottlieb set down its weight in a note-book, with the time of inoculation and the age of the bacterial culture.
-- Davidson pressed his lips together, then: "Arrowsmith, with a man of your age I hate to answer you as I would a three-year-old boy, but apparently I must.
-- One out of every three persons above the age of sixty has spent a winter in California, and among them are the champion horseshoe pitcher of Pasadena and the woman who presented the turkey which Miss Mary Pickford, the cinema princess, enjoyed at her Christmas dinner in 1912.
-- She must have been a veritable girl of the late eighties and the early nineties, the naive and idyllic age of Howells, when young men were pure, when they played croquet and sang Swanee River; a girl who sat on a front porch enchanted by the sweetness of lilacs, and hoped that when Almus and she were married they would have a nickel-plated baseburner stove and a son who would become a missionary or a millionaire.
-- He estimated that according to Pickerbaugh's figures on bad teeth, careless motoring, tuberculosis, and seven other afflictions alone, every person in the city had a one hundred and eighty per cent chance of dying before the age of sixteen and he could not startle with much alarm when Pickerbaugh shouted, "Do you realize that the number of people who died from yaws in Pickens County, Mississippi, last year alone, was twenty-nine and that they might all have been saved, yes, sir, SAVED, by a daily cold shower?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The fact is this monstrous difference in age and develop-ment excites your sensuality!Will you really make such a marriage?'
-- There there was freedom, there other men were living, utterly unlike those here; there time itself seemed to stand still, as though the age of Abraham and his flocks had not passed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was double my mother's age when he married, and of but adelicate constitution.
-- and a girl of about my own age came quickly out and kissed him.
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