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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Compose yourself,' said Clerval, who observed my change of colour, 'I will not mention it if it agitates you; but your father and cousin would be very happy if they received a letter from you in your own handwriting.
-- 'I am,' said she, 'the cousin of the unhappy child who was murdered, or rather his sister, for I was educated by and have lived with his parents ever since and even long before his birth.
-- My cousin wept also.
-- I love my cousin ten-182 Frankensteinderly and sincerely.
-- Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring *maladie du pays*, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know, Ashley Wilkes' cousin who lives in Atlanta, Miss Pittypat Hamilton Charles and MelanieHamilton's aunt."
-- "She's been in love with that wild buck of a cousin ofhers, Philippe Robillard, for a year now, despite her family being at her morning and night to give him up."
-- "They'd rather have that breakneck cousin for her than you."
-- "They've been kicking up their heels eversince we heard the news this morning about Ashley and that little cousin of his from Atlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Sarah Pocket," returned Cousin Raymond, "if a man is not his own neighbor, who is?"
-- "Good points in him, good points in him," said Cousin Raymond; "Heaven forbid I should deny good points in him; but he never had, and he never will have, any sense of the proprieties."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: 'I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening.
-- My dead cousin was here, and a bearded man came and showed me a great deal of money down below, but no one told me what it was to shudder.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was speaking I had caught sight of the portrait of my cousin Gretchen, and was wondering when she would return.
-- I also found my cousin and affianced wife as warm on the subject as was her father.
-- Hamburg, the house on the Konigstrasse, my dear cousin Gretchen--all that world which had before vanished like a shadow floated before my now vivid imagination.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now this young fellow's father married a Stiltstalking and his father married his cousin who was a Barnacle.
-- The female Bleeding Hearts, when they came for ounces of tea, and hundredweights of talk, gave Mrs Plornish to understand, That how, ma'am, they had heard from their cousin Mary Anne, which worked in the line, that his lady's dresses would fill three waggons.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great re-spect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in fer-ment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.
-- 'No, it wouldn't,' returned Jo, 'I neither like, respect, nor admire Tudor, though his grandfather's uncle's nephew's niece was a third cousin to a lord.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The landlord of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour.
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