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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How jolly it all used to be!But I made a young ass of myself, played myself out before I was twenty-one.
-- I felt I had him at a disadvan-tage, had caught him in the mood of indiscretion; and to tell the truth I was not curious to learn what might have driven a young medical student out of London.
-- Less so, and probably far more extensive, were the operations of those mediaeval practitioners who made dwarfs and beg-gar-cripples, show-monsters, some vestiges of whose art still remain in the preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist.
-- He had fancied they might serve for meat, but a rabbit-like habit of devour-ing their young had defeated this intention.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How beautiful are the noble children!How large are their eyes!And so young too!Indeed, indeed, I might have re-membered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.'
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
-- There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan's question to Akela: 'What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?'
-- 'Baloo has spoken, and he is our teacher for the young cubs.
-- said the young wolves, who are always hungry.
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：
-- A young man, in the dress of an officer, conducted to their steeds two females, who, as it was apparent by their dresses, were prepared to encounter the fatigues of a jour-ney in the woods.
-- The other, who appeared to share equally in the attention of the young officer, con-cealed her charms from the gaze of the soldiery with a care that seemed better fitted to the experience of four or five additional years.
-- 'Here, then, lies our way,' said the young man, in a low voice.
-- The young man regard-ed the last speaker in open admiration, and even permitted her fairer, though certainly not more beautiful compan-ion, to proceed unattended, while he sedulously opened the way himself for the passage of her who has been called Cora.
-- 'Even so,' replied the stranger, making diligent use of his triangular castor, to produce a circulation in the close air of the woods, and leaving his hearers in doubt to which of the young man's questions he responded; when, however, he had cooled his face, and recovered his breath, he continued, 'I hear you are riding to William Henry; as I am journey-ing thitherward myself, I concluded good company would seem consistent to the wishes of both parties.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing- master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody.
-- Books were flung aside without being put away on the shelves, inkstands were over-turned, benches thrown down, and the whole school was turned loose an hour before the usual time, bursting forth like a legion of young imps, yelping and racketing about the green in joy at their early emancipation.
-- He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the cho-leric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some of his own spirit into the animal; for, old and broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country.
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：
-- I think he must have read the verse of these young men who were making so great a stir in the world, and I fancy he found it poor stuff.
-- I was very young when I wrote my first book.
-- I was young enough for them not to feel shy, and they chattered merrily about one thing and another.
-- They were extraordinarily nice, healthy young children.
-- "I tell you I know nothing," she said, in reply to my agitated questions, and then, with an airy shrug of the shoulders: "I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft at the beginning of the year had gone to Richmond on business, with a young boy of fifteen from New Jersey, son of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he had been his own child.
-- Had he himself been as well acquainted with the art of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation of a ship, Pencroft would not have hesitated to set out, of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for, accustomed to brave the fiercest tempests of the ocean, he was not to be hindered on account of the hurricane.
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