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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The CATAPEZ, as he was called in Chilian, had two natives called PEONS, and a boy about twelve years of age under him.
-- Glenarvan never lost sight of young Robert, for his age and vivacity made him imprudent.
-- "At his age it is quite natural," replied Glenarvan.
-- This religious enthusiasm at so tender an age was easily explained.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,' said I, 'but at least it is not difficult to find out a few -particulars about the man's age and professional career.'
-- As you look at their gray stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His estate was sold for the creditors; and the little girls two of them, of seven and eight years of age respectively, were adopted by Totski, who undertook their maintenance and education in the kindness of his heart.
-- She was a fine woman of the same age as her husband, with a slightly hooked nose, a high, narrow forehead, thick hair turning a little grey, and a sallow complexion.
-- I think he, too, must feel that he has an age to live still while they cart him along.
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
-- said he, 'picture this unhappy man, crippled by age and infirmities, who gains his living by honourable toil picture him, I repeat, robbed of his all, of his last mouthful; remember, I entreat you, the words of that learned legislator, 'Let mercy and justice alike rule the courts of law.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chiefs about the son of Atreus chose their men and mar-shalled them, while Minerva went among them holding her priceless aegis that knows neither age nor death.
-- They were of the same age and colour, and perfect-ly matched in height.
-- 'Sir,' said he, 'these young war-riors are pressing you hard, your force is spent, and age is heavy upon you, your squire is naught, and your horses are slow to move.
-- He found him sleeping in his tent hard by his own ship; his goodly armour lay beside him his shield, his two spears and his helmet; beside him also lay the gleaming girdle with which the old man girded himself when he armed to lead his people into battle for his age stayed him not.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence.
-- It is too ridiculous!When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?"
-- I can easily suppose that his age may appear much greater to you than to my mother; but you can hardly deceive yourself as to his having the use of his limbs!"
-- "My dearest child," said her mother, laughing, "at this rate you must be in continual terror of MY decay; and it must seem to you a miracle that my life has been extended to the advanced age of forty."
-- CHAPTER 26Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man of Hurstwood's age and temperament is not subject to the illusions and burning desires of youth, but neither has he the strength of hope which gushes as a fountain in the heart of youth.
-- The handicap of age she did not, in her enthusiasm, perceive.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with cour- age that's bor-rowed from their mass, and from their officers.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
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