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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And no laughing matter to them as had the doing for him, as I had my sister being took up with her little ones so much.
-- Being constitutionally of a curious nature, he had removed the works a quite unnecessary proceeding with the idea of delaying his departure and perhaps falling into conversation with the stranger.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fancy I recollect some stuff being poured in between my teeth; and that is all.
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- (Then the noise overhead began again, a snarling growl and the voice of a human being together.
-- The only human being on deck was a gaunt and silent sailor at the wheel.
-- Only the asses won't see it!Why am I here now, an outcast from civilisation, instead of being a happy man enjoying all the pleasures of London?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.
-- 'Seeing that the leadership is yet open, and being asked to speak ' Shere Khan began.
-- But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye.
-- None of the Jungle People like being disturbed, and all are very ready to fly at an intruder.
-- But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
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：
-- In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.
-- Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.
-- The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Min-goes, and the Iroquois, though not all strictly the same, are identified frequently by the speakers, being politically con-federated and opposed to those just named.
-- The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
-- There was one man, however, who, by his coun-tenance and actions, formed a marked exception to those who composed the latter class of spectators, being neither idle, nor seemingly very ignorant.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic.
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being con-sidered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phan-toms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambula-tions, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman.
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：
-- The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
-- It gave me an intimate sense of being a member of some mystic brotherhood.
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