cousin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 堂(或表) 兄弟姐妹，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At dinner time (there were always a few people dining with the Karenins) there arrived an old lady, a cousin of Alexey Alexandrovitch, the chief secretary of the department and his wife, and a young man who had been recommended to Alexey Alexandrovitch for the service.
-- Vronsky, seeing his cousin from his stall in the front row, did not wait till the entr'acte, but went to her box.
-- He had had his last interview with her at his cousin Betsy's summer villa.
-- Kitty and Levin would be of the party, and that this might not be obtrusively evident, there would be a girl cousin too, and young Shtcherbatsky, and la piece de resistance among the guests--Sergey Koznishev and Alexey Alexandrovitch.
-- One of the first ladies of Petersburg society whom Vronsky saw was his cousin Betsy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A room was engaged for the young woman, and Mr. Fogg, after seeing that she wanted for nothing, set out in search of her cousin Jeejeeh.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They concealed the ear of a cadaver in his nice, clean, new pocket handkerchief when he went to Sunday supper at the house of a girl cousin in Zenith.
-- The cousin who was a colonel in Uruguay and the cousin, a rabbi, who was tortured in a pogrom in Moscow.
-- It was precisely what a much-resented New York cousin had once said to Madeline.
-- It was Sondelius who spoke of a non-existent cousin who was a Harley Street specialist, and who explained that all they wanted was a laboratory for Martin and, for himself, a chance to slaughter rats.
-- The best man was Dr. William Smith, with his beard trimmed for the occasion, and distressing morning clothes and a topper which he had bought in London eleven years before, but both of them were safe in charge of a cousin of Joyce who was guaranteed to have extra handkerchiefs and to recognize the Wedding March.
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：
-- At last I shook my fist in his ugly face, and told him as a cousin I'd brain him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, stopping in the passage with hishand on my shoulder; 'you have not found any suitable provisionfor my wife's cousin yet?'
-- I don't want to look agift-horse in the mouth, which is not a gracious thing to do; 220otherwise, I dare say, my cousin Annie could easily arrange it inher own way.
-- Although not old byyears- for when did you ever hear me say, or who has ever heardme say, that a girl of twenty was old by years!- your cousin is thewife of the Doctor, and, as such, what I have described her.
-- It iswell for you, John, that your cousin is the wife of the Doctor.
-- The daughterhad sat quite silent and still during this speech, with her eyes fixed 230on the ground; her cousin standing near her, and looking on theground too.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A cousin of Mr. Suckling, Mrs. Bragge, had such an infinity of applications; every body was anxious to be in her family, for she moves in the first circle.
-- It was not with Mrs. Suckling, it was not with Mrs. Bragge, but in felicity and splendour it fell short only of them: it was with a cousin of Mrs. Bragge, an acquaintance of Mrs. Suckling, a lady known at Maple Grove.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he told her that he was a cousin of Mme.
-- "Yesterday evening I went to a ball given by a cousin of mine, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant.
-- "This escapade will cost me a king's ransom, but, at any rate, I shall call on my so-called cousin in a thoroughly aristocratic fashion.
-- "Confound it all!I expect my cousin also has her Maxime."
-- de Beauseant began to laugh outright at her cousin and at the Duchess both.
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