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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
-- "And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let's consider your age to begin with how old are you?'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
-- Imagine the abominable age we live in!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This boy was thirty years old, and his age to that of his master as fifteen to twenty.
-- This canal answered all commercial purposes to the age of Antonius, when it was abandoned and blocked up with sand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He worshipped her as age worships youth, he gloried in her, because, in his one grain of faith, he was young as she, he was her proper mate.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.
-- Nobody but I even did him the kindness to call him a dirty boy, and bid him wash himself, once a week; and children of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water.
-- He had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of.
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