being是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生物， 生命， 存在；，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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER I - START IN LIFEI WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a for-eigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
-- Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.
-- that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimo-ny to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
-- It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though, in the meantime, I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to business, and frequently expos-tulated with my father and mother about their being so positively determined against what they knew my incli-nations prompted me to.
-- But being one day at Hull, where I went casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's, without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon-don.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A present of fifty pounds, now and then, will prevent their ever being distressed for money, and will, I think, be amply discharging my promise to my father."
-- For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
-- Marianne here burst forth with indignation "Esteem him!Like him!Cold-hearted Elinor!Oh!worse than cold-hearted!Ashamed of being otherwise.
-- He is very far from being independent.
-- To separate Edward and Elinor was as far from being her object as ever; and she wished to show Mrs. John Dashwood, by this pointed invitation to her brother, how totally she disregarded her disapprobation of the match.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up.
-- Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house--a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day "drummers."
-- If some seemingly vulnerable object appeared he was all attention-- to pass the compliments of the day, to lead the way to the parlor car, carrying her grip, or, failing that, to take a seat next her with the hope of being able to court her to her destination.
-- Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED--OF GRANITE AND BRASS Minnie's flat, as the one-floor resident apartments were then being called, was in a part of West Van Buren Street inhabited by families of labourers and clerks, men who had come, and were still coming, with the rush of population pouring in at the rate of 50,000 a year.
-- As she contemplated the wide windows and imposing signs, she became conscious of being gazed upon and understood for what she was--a wage-seeker.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here she was a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to any- body, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it.
-- I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a min-ute I see I was mistaken that is, after the first jolt, as you may say, when my breath sort of hitched, he being so un-expected; but right away after I see I warn't scared of him worth bothring about.
-- The widow she found out where I was by and by, and she sent a man over to try to get hold of me; but pap drove him off with the gun, and it warn't long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it all but the cowhide part.
-- He abused me a little for being so slow; but I told him I fell in the river, and that was what made me so long.
-- While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trust- ing to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he was about to put the last touches on the finger tips, Geppetto felt his wig being pulled off.
-- "You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father.
-- But the Cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone: "If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade, so that you can earn an honest living?"
-- Fire Eater (this was really his name) was very ugly, but he was far from being as bad as he looked.
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