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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came of rich people down in Somersetshire, who had nursed this combination of qualities until they made the discovery that it was just of age and a blockhead.
-- There was no discrepancy of years between us to remove her far from me; we were of nearly the same age, though of course the age told for more in her case than in mine; but the air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.
-- Herbert himself had come of age eight months before me.
-- It was an uncomfortable consideration on a twenty-first birthday, that coming of age at all seemed hardly worth while in such a guarded and suspicious world as he made of it.
-- That his age was about sixty.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon these, and the like reason-ings, their opinion is, that parents are the last of all others to be trusted with the education of their own children; and therefore they have in every town public nurseries, where all parents, except cottagers and labourers, are obliged to send their infants of both sexes to be reared and educat-ed, when they come to the age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some rudiments of docil-ity.
-- Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
-- That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Age known by marks in mouth.'
-- I'm willing to take her prentith, though at her age ith late.
-- Mr. Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes.
-- What harmony, besides her age and her simplicity, surrounded her, he did not know, but even in this fantastic action there was a something neither out of time nor place: a something which it seemed as if nobody else could have made as serious, or done with such a natural and touching air.
-- Here's old Bounderby always boasting that at my age he lived upon twopence a month, or something of that sort.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two girls, therefore, were from an early age not the least daunted by either art or ideal politics.
-- They had been sent to Dresden at the age of fifteen, for music among other things.
-- All were about the same age as Clifford; the young intellectuals of the day.
-- You'll let your youth slip by, and you'll spend your old age, and your middle age too, repenting it.'
-- In this activity, men were beyond atty mental age calculable.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was herimmobile bronze face.
-- He picked Scarlett up with ease despite his apparent frailness and age and, observing Prissy standing on theplatform of the train, the baby in her arms, he paused: "Is dat air chile yo' nuss?
-- All ages and sexes went visiting, honeymooners, young mothersshowing off new babies, convalescents, the bereaved, girls whose parents were anxious to remove them from thedangers of unwise matches, girls who had reached the danger age without becoming engaged and who, it was hoped,would make suitable matches under the guidance of relatives in other places.
-- There wereboys in the Home Guard, proud to be playing at war, promising themselves they would be in Virginia this time nextyear, if the war would just last that long; old men with white beards, wishing they were younger, proud to march inuniform in the reflected glory of sons at the front In the militia, there were many middle-aged men and some older menbut there was a fair sprinkling of men of military age who did not carry themselves quite so jauntily as their elders ortheir juniors.
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