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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I noticed, by the bye, that although Mr.Micawber was just as much confused as ever about my age andstanding, he always remembered, as a genteel thing, that I was apupil of Doctor Strong's.
-- And she would wait,Copperfield, till she was sixty- any age you can mention- for me!'
-- until she was sixty, or any age that could bementioned.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What do you imagine his age to be?'
-- At her age she can have no experience, and with her little wit, is not very likely ever to have any that can avail her.
-- In this age of literature, such collections on a very grand scale are not uncommon.
-- Her disposition and abilities were equally worthy of all that friendship could do; and at eighteen or nineteen she was, as far as such an early age can be qualified for the care of children, fully competent to the office of instruction herself; but she was too much beloved to be parted with.
-- This event had very lately taken place; too lately for any thing to be yet attempted by her less fortunate friend to-wards entering on her path of duty; though she had now reached the age which her own judgment had fixed on for beginning.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.
-- "What may your age be, malter?"
-- I suppose ye'll say next I be no age at all to speak of?"
-- Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
-- Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man's aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman's does likewise.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- Vauquer at the age of fifty is like all women who "have seen a deal of trouble."
-- Was she expiating the flaunting triumphs of a youth overcrowded with pleasures by an old age in which she was shunned by every passer-by?
-- In the year 1813, at the age of sixty-nine or thereabouts, "Father Goriot" had sold his business and retired--to Mme.
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.
-- When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
-- 38 Frankenstein Chapter 3 hen I had attained the age of seventeen my parents Wresolved that I should become a student at the uni- versity of Ingolstadt.
-- I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a jour-ney, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
-- My father's age rendered him extremely averse to delay.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And after an interval a tall black boy of their own age ran breathlessly around thehouse and out toward the tethered horses.
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