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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER II THE THREE DOCUMENTSALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water.
-- If he had any fault it was his being so intensely Scotch from top to toe, a Caledonian of the Caledonians, an obstinate stickler for all the ancient customs of his country.
-- But though he had not yet opened his mouth, he gave one the impression of being a great talker, and moreover, one of those absent folks who neither see though they are looking, nor hear though they are listening.
-- Just imagine no vines to speak of being in Madeira!In 1813, 22,000 pipes of wine were made there, and in 1845 the number fell to 2,669.
-- Thanks to his taste for languages, he did not despair of being able to speak the language fluently when they arrived at Concepcion.
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：
-- 'I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot.'
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- Being a heavy stick the dog has held it tightly by the middle, and the marks of his teeth are very plainly visible.
-- But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.
-- So it came to pass that one Michaelmas this Hugo, with five or six of his idle and wicked companions, stole down upon the farm and carried off the maiden, her father and brothers being from home, as he well knew.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held a bundle made up of an old faded silk handkerchief that apparently contained all his travelling wardrobe, and wore thick shoes and gaiters, his whole appearance being very un-Russian.
-- He seemed to have no suspicion of any impertinence or inappropriateness in the fact of such questions being put to him.
-- General Epanchin, as ev-eryone knew, had a good deal to do with certain government monopolies; he was also a voice, and an important one, in many rich public companies of various descriptions; in fact, he enjoyed the reputation of being a wellto-do man of busy habits, many ties, and affluent means.
-- He had married young, while still a lieutenant, his wife being a girl of about his own age, who possessed neither beauty nor education, and who brought him no more than fifty souls of landed property, which little estate served, however, as a nest-egg for far more important accumulations.
-- Certainly no one could blame them for being too arrogant or haughty, and yet everybody was well aware that they were proud and quite understood their own value.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.
-- Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were not without a leader, for Podarces, of the race of Mars, marshalled them; he was son of Iphic-lus, rich in sheep, who was the son of Phylacus, and he was own brother to Protesilaus, only younger, Protesilaus being at once the elder and the more valiant.
-- They were gathered in as-sembly, old and young, at Priam's gates, and Iris came close up to Priam, speaking with the voice of Priam's son Polites, who, being fleet of foot, was stationed as watchman for the Trojans on the tomb of old Aesyetes, to look out for any sal-ly of the Achaeans.
-- These were inspired of Mars, but the others by Minerva and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murder-ous Mars, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.
-- These two came forward from the main body of Trojans, and set upon Diomed, he being on foot, while they fought from their chariot.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin.
-- It's her being so long!"
-- He sat in the corner with his back to the window- blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Proof of this is that, when he saw the poor Marionette being brought in to him, struggling with fear and crying, "I don't want to die!I don't want to die!"
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