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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appealed to the patriotism of his countrymen, placed his fortune at the service of the cause, built a ship, and manned it with a picked crew, and leaving his children to the care of his old cousin set off to explore the great islands of the Pacific.
-- Just at this juncture the old cousin died, and Harry Grant's two children were left alone in the world.
-- As a cousin of Glenarvan, he lived in Malcolm Castle, and as a major he went as a matter of course with the DUNCAN.
-- For a long time his cousin seemed not to hear him.
-- McNabbs hesitated now no longer, but, acting on the advice of the rest, told his cousin that start they must, for all their lives depended on prompt action.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No more cousin than I am.'
-- 'Oh!yes, long ago,' continued Ivan Petrovitch, 'while you were living with my cousin at Zlatoverhoff.
-- So he had really seen him there!Good heavens!And was he really and truly and actu-ally a cousin of Pavlicheff's?
-- 'But, my goodness me,' laughed Ivan Petrovitch, 'why can't I be cousin to even a splendid man?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Hector saw his cousin fallen in front of the ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a jot, but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of his armour now that he has fallen.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in the silly season, and a prominent editor, a cousin of the temporary labora-tory-assistant, appealed to the conscience of the nation.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My cousin Chua, the rat, told me ' said Chuchundra, and then he stopped.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Bennet and her daughters apologised most civilly for Lydia's interruption, and promised that it should not occur again, if he would re-sume his book; but Mr. Collins, after assuring them that he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront, seated himself at another table with Mr. Bennet, and prepared for backgammon.
-- The whist party soon afterwards breaking up, the play-ers gathered round the other table and Mr. Collins took his station between his cousin Elizabeth and Mrs. Phillips.
-- 'Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large for-tune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.'
-- 'I am by no means of the opinion, I assure you,' said he, 'that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of solicit-ing yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially, a preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right cause, and not to any disrespect for her.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Perhaps it is to tell you that your cousin Fanny is married?"
-- Benevolent, philanthropic man!It was painful to him even to keep a third cousin to himself.
-- 'Lord!here comes your beau, Nancy,' my cousin said t'other day, when she saw him crossing the street to the house.
-- Mr. Edward Ferrars, the very young man I used to joke with you about (but however, as it turns out, I am monstrous glad there was never any thing in it), Mr. Edward Ferrars, it seems, has been engaged above this twelvemonth to my cousin Lucy! There's for you, my dear! And not a creature knowing a syllable of the matter, except Nancy! Could you have believed such a thing possible? There is no great wonder in their liking one another; but that matters should be brought so forward between them, and nobody suspect it! THAT is strange! I never happened to see them together, or I am sure I should have found it out directly.
-- And besides that, my cousin Richard said himself, that when it came to the point he was afraid Mr. Ferrars would be off; and when Edward did not come near us for three days, I could not tell what to think myself; and I believe in my heart Lucy gave it up all for lost; for we came away from your brother's Wednesday, and we saw nothing of him not all Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and did not know what was become of him.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mrs. Wheeler, let me introduce Mr. Ames, a cousin of mine," said Mrs. Vance.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Bout three months ago my cousin Bud, fourteen year old, was riding through the woods on t'other side of the river, and didn't have no weapon with him, which was blame' foolishness, and in a lonesome place he hears a horse a-coming behind him, and sees old Baldy Shepherdson a-linkin' after him with his gun in his hand and his white hair a-flying in the wind; and 'stead of jumping off and taking to the brush, Bud 'lowed he could out- run him; so they had it, nip and tuck, for five mile or more, the old man a-gaining all the time; so at last Bud seen it warn't any use, so he stopped and faced around so as to have the bullet holes in front, you know, and the old man he rode up and shot him down.
-- Buck begun to cry and rip, and 'lowed that him and his cousin Joe (that was the other young chap) would make up for this day yet.
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