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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all.
-- The 13th of April, 1867, the sea being beautiful, the breeze favourable, the Scotia, of the Cunard Company's line, found herself in 15脗掳 12' long.
-- I had read and reread all the American and European papers without being any nearer a conclusion.
-- Have you any particular reason for being so incredulous?"
-- The voyage was being accomplished under the most favourable auspices.
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：
-- Gudrun knew she was being admired.
-- It's like being mad, Ursula."
-- It was a lack of robust self, she had no natural sufficiency, there was a terrible void, a lack, a deficiency of being within her.
-- There was a moment's lull, as everybody looked at the hors d'oeuvres that were being handed round.
-- Birkin, thinking about race or national death, watched his glass being filled with champagne.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
-- Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.
-- Do you know that you run a risk of being lost in the marshes?
-- One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
-- Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!A sad pity I must beware how I cause her to regret her choice.'
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：
-- She said afterwards that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on getting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
-- Alice didn't like being criticised, so she began asking questions.
-- 'Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?'
-- 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played all over the world if this is the world at all, you know.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
-- He had left his pipe below, and being a slave to tobacco, had meant that I should fetch it; but as soon as I was near enough to speak and not to be overheard, I broke immediately, "Doctor, let me speak.
-- Mr. Trelawney, being a very open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me a word or two, and as I was able to tell him that every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft, as I never ask to see it done better, why, he and I and the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your health and luck, and you'll have grog served out for you to drink our health and luck.
-- I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world turned giddily before my eyes, for though I was a good enough sailor when there was way on, this standing still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all in the morning, on an empty stomach.
-- Perhaps it was this perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
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