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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My good friend, if, when we were once out of this fight, we could es-cape old age and death thenceforward and forever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him; therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the holluschickie and Sea Catch, his father, and all the other seals laughed at him when he told them what he had discovered, and a young seal about his own age said, 'This is all very well, Kotick, but you can't come from no one knows where and order us off like this.
-- Kala Nag, which means Black Snake, had served the In-dian Government in every way that an elephant could serve it for forty-seven years, and as he was fully twenty years old when he was caught, that makes him nearly seventy a ripe age for an elephant.
-- 'A boy who can face a full Keddah at his age does not end in jails.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But old age is a great injury to good looks, as these sweet young ladies have yet to l'arn!The place is sadly changed!These rocks are full of cracks, and in some places they are softer than at other-some, and the water has worked out deep hollows for itself, until it has fallen back, ay, some hundred feet, breaking here and wearing there, until the falls have neither shape nor consistency.'
-- They found a strong resemblance between father and son, with the difference that might be expected from age and hardships.
-- 'The arrows of Uncas, or such tears as women shed!No, no; you are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!But,' glancing his eyes at the Mohicans, 'let us remember we are men without a cross, and let us teach these natives of the forest that white blood can run as freely as red, when the appointed hour is come.'
-- He was, in truth, a minstrel of the western con-tinent of a much later day, certainly, than those gifted bards, who formerly sang the profane renown of baron and prince, but after the spirit of his own age and country; and he was now prepared to exercise the cunning of his craft, in celebration of, or rather in thanksgiving for, the recent vic-tory.
-- The instant he caught a glimpse of the white plume that waved in the hat of Montcalm, his eye lighted, and age no longer appeared to possess any influence over his vast and still muscular person.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She smiled, her smile was really very sweet, and she blushed a little; it was singular that a woman of that age should flush so readily.
-- They would grow old insensibly; they would see their son and daughter come to years of reason, marry in due course the one a pretty girl, future mother of healthy children; the other a handsome, manly fellow, obviously a soldier; and at last, prosperous in their dignified retirement, beloved by their descendants, after a happy, not unuseful life, in the fullness of their age they would sink into the grave.
-- Strickland was certainly forty, and I thought it disgusting that a man of his age should concern himself with affairs of the heart.
-- "A man doesn't throw up his business and leave his wife and children at the age of forty to become a painter unless there's a woman in it.
-- She was a woman of twenty-eight, I should think, though of a type whose age is always doubtful; for she cannot have looked different when she was twenty, and at forty would look no older.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'When I think,' said he, 'of the many years many in thy short life that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.'
-- Say that Mrs Quilp lives five year, or only four, you'll be just the proper age for me.
-- When should it be, but when I began to think how little I had saved, how long a time it took to save at all, how short a time I might have at my age to live, and how she would be left to the rough mercies of the world, with barely enough to keep her from the sorrows that wait on poverty; then it was that I began to think about it.'
-- Mr Abel, who had a quaint old-fashioned air about him, looked nearly of the same age as his father, and bore a wonderful resemblance to him in face and figure, though wanting something of his full, round, cheerfulness, and substituting in its place a timid reserve.
-- This narration ended, Mr Garland put some questions to Kit respecting his qualifications and general acquirements, while Mrs Garland noticed the children, and hearing from Kit's mother certain remarkable circumstances which had attended the birth of each, related certain other remarkable circumstances which had attended the birth of her own son, Mr Abel, from which it appeared that both Kit's mother and herself had been, above and beyond all other women of what condition or age soever, peculiarly hemmed in with perils and dangers.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Vladimir Vasilievitch, a good-natured, bearded boy of fifteen, who at that age had already commenced to drink and lead a depraved life which lasted till he was twenty years old, was driven from the house for the reason that he did not pass examinations in any school, and keeping bad company, and, running into debt, he had compromised his father.
-- He was the son of a fallen woman; had grown up in lodging-houses, and till the age of thirty had never met a moral man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force.
-- We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and in this future age it was complete.
-- Yet, for one thing I felt assured: unless some other age had produced its exact duplicate, the machine could not have moved in time.
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