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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-strong; but with whom one sometimes loves to sit, and feel poor-devilish, too; and grow convivial upon tears; and say to them bluntly, with full eyes and empty glasses, and in not altogether unpleasant sadness Give it up, Sub-Subs!For by how much the more pains ye take to please the world, by so much the more shall ye for ever go thankless!Would that I could clear out Hampton Court and the Tuileries for ye!But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of long-pampered Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, against your coming.
-- And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
-- The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.
-- His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
-- The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,--a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
-- He belonged to the world again.
-- Oliver complied; marvelling where the people could be found to read such a great number of books as seemed to be written to make the world wiser.
-- The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes.
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark.
-- She was very equal, therefore, to address Mr. Bingley on the subject of the ball, and abruptly reminded him of his prom-ise; adding, that it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
-- The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing man-ners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed.
-- May I ask you in no impertinent curiosity, but because I have had so much pleasure in your society, may never in this labyrinth of a world exchange a quiet word with you again, and wish to preserve an accurate remembrance of you and yours may I ask you, if I have not gathered from your good wife that you have had other children?'
-- It would be as hard to convince me that if I was to pass into the other world to-morrow, I should not, through the mercy of God, be received there by a daughter, just like Pet, as to persuade me that Pet herself is not a reality at my side.'
-- Trained by main force; broken, not bent; heavily ironed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father's death there, a year ago; always grinding in a mill I always hated; what is to be expected from me in middle life?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls,' said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
-- Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excel-lently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
-- 'Then things went smoothly, for Don Pedro defied the world in a speech of two pages without a single break.
-- 'The Laurence boy's grandfather!What in the world put such a thing into his head?
-- Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
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