world是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 世界， 地球； …界， 领域； 世间； 全世界，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Has the world grown smaller?"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its president is the best money-raiser and the best after-dinner speaker in the United States; and Winnemac was the first school in the world to conduct its extension courses by radio.
-- Well, when one of you scientific sharks can take the genius of a Ben Jonson and measure it with a yardstick, then I'll admit that we literary chaps, with our doubtless absurd belief in beauty and loyalty and the world o' dreams, are off on the wrong track!"
-- He spoke of Gottlieb's great book, "Immunology," which had been read by seven-ninths of all the men in the world who could possibly understand it--the number of these being nine.
-- You see the world that way, and at least you aren't racing up and down the boat trying to drag patients away from some rival doc that has an office on another deck!"
-- This iss very good, because thus the world never sees their results and science is not encumbered with them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sonia, Sonia Marmeladov, the eternal victim so long as the world lasts.
-- 'Ah, the shameful things that are done in the world now-adays, God have mercy on us!An innocent creature like that, drunk already!She has been deceived, that's a sure thing.
-- How is it, is the world topsy-turvy?
-- You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in Janu-ary, you keep your money in your purse; and it's the same with this purchase.
-- Science now tells us, love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rests on self-interest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father's eyes had closedupon the light of this world six months, when mine opened on it.
-- My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and verylow in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and despondingheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who wasalready welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins in a drawerupstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival;my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy Marchafternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever comingalive out of the trial that was before her, when, lifting her eyes asshe dried them, to the window opposite, she saw a strange ladycoming up the garden.
-- It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as Icarried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river;and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as roundas my geography-book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
-- Overthe little mantel-shelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, builtat Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a workof art, combining composition with carpentry, which I consideredto be one of the most enviable possessions that the world couldafford.
-- 'What a troublesome world this is, when one hasthe most right to expect it to be as agreeable as possible!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Volume IChapter IEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
-- Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.
-- Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beau-ty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being ad-mired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.
-- If they are anxious to see you happily married, here is a man whose amiable character gives every assurance of it; if they wish to have you settled in the same country and circle which they have chosen to place you in, here it will be accomplished; and if their only object is that you should, in the common phrase, be well married, here is the comfortable fortune, the respectable establishment, the rise in the world which must satisfy them.'
-- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.
-- The pool glittered like a dead man's eye, and as the world awoke a breeze blew, shaking and elongating the reflection of the moon without breaking it, and turning the image of the star to a phosphoric streak upon the water.
-- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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