young是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 年轻的， 幼小的； 没经验的n. 青年人，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentleman!May nothing you dis-may!'
-- They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.
-- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Par-liament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
-- Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and admin-istered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted be-fore, he had rather not.
-- Scrooge's former self, now grown a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his fellow-prentice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: 'I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day.
-- The obscurity was so difficult to penetrate that Mr. Lorry, picking his way over the well-worn Turkey carpet, supposed Miss Manette to be, for the moment, in some adjacent room, until, having got past the two tall candles, he saw standing to receive him by the table between them and the fire, a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travellinghat by its ribbon in her hand.
-- As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty fig-ure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his 27own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth it was), of rifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four ex-pressions-as his eyes rested on these things, a sudden vivid likeness passed before him, of a child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel, one cold time, when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high.
-- In a very clear and pleasant young voice; a little foreign in its accent, but a very little indeed.
-- The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expres-29sion but it was pretty and characteristic, besides being singular and she raised her hand, as if with an involun-tary action she caught at, or stayed some passing shadow.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If I had but married the handsome young Prince!Ah!how un-fortunate I am!'
-- Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one.
-- One of the young men, whose head, in a physical sense only, might be said to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening.The rain poured down in torrents; yet despite these two obstacles, the young man was obliged to go out, if it 40 Andersen's Fairy Taleswere but for a quarter of an hour; and as to telling the door-keeper about it, that, he thought, was quite unnecessary, if, with a whole skin, he were able to slip through the railings.
-- Among the audience was the young man of the hospital, who seemed to have forgotten his adventure of the preceding night.
-- sighed he, 'I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had even supposed that she, a worn-out woman no longer young or good-looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a good mother, ought from a sense of fairness to take an indulgent view.
-- He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
-- "On one side it's a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and I'm neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side" (he stammered) "it's a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
-- He had both prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him.
-- Why it was the three young ladies had one day to speak French, and the next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother's room above, where the students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young ladies, with Mademoiselle Linon, drove in the coach to the Tversky boulevard, dressed in their satin cloaks, Dolly in a long one, Natalia in a half-long one, and Kitty in one so short that her shapely legs in tightly-drawn red stockings were visible to all beholders; why it was they had to walk about the Tversky boulevard escorted by a footman with a gold cockade in his hat--all this and much more that was done in their mysterious world he did not understand, but he was sure that everything that was done there was very good, and he was in love precisely with the mystery of the proceedings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A young man of thirty advanced and bowed.
-- His last master, young Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns, was too often brought home in the morning on policemen's shoulders.
-- "Very well, young man," returned Mr. Fogg, coolly; "it will burn at your expense."
-- What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels, and the hospitable efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the Mongolia.
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