society是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 社会； 社团， 协会， 社； 社交界， 上流社会，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen.
-- I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor society as this, I am sure I do!"
-- I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said, 'there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, ac-cording as they are paid.
-- To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.
-- 'It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a pecu-liar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have whol-ly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
-- I dwell the longer upon this sub- 381ject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If it was not, ma'am, you don't suppose that I should offer it to a lady who has moved in the society you have moved in.
-- The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends.
-- Bred at a disadvantage towards the society in which he has his part to play, he rushes into these extremes for himself, from opposite extremes that have long been forced with the very best intentions we have no doubt upon him.
-- 'It is merely my respectful compliments,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'and I fear I may not trouble her with my society this week; being still a little nervous, and better perhaps by my poor self.'
-- 'My dear child,' said Harthouse; Mrs. Sparsit saw with delight that his arm embraced her; 'will you not bear with my society for a little while?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now most persons in this category supply themselves with information, as peddlers do with goods, for the benefit of others, and lay up stores in order to diffuse them abroad for the benefit of society in general.
-- In 1816 we founded a Literary Society and Mechanics' Institute; many foreign scholars of eminence are honorary members; we publish books destined to educate our people, and these books have rendered valuable services to our country.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lived with him in a smallish house in Westminster, and moved in that good sort of society of people in the government who are not tip-toppers, but who are, or would be, the real intelli-gent power in the nation: people who know what they're talking about, or talk as if they did.
-- He had been taken up quite enthusi-astically for a time by smart society in London, for he wrote smart society plays.
-- Then gradually smart society realized that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and revulsion came.
-- He knew it would not change him from an ownerless dog, whom everybody begrudges its golden collar, into a comfortable society dog.
-- Society was terrible because it was insane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, as I expected yesterday, the President will look for the pleasure of your society at an hour after mid-day, to-day.'
-- 'I am not much used to the society of young ladies, and I am afraid I may not show my appreciation of it as others might.
-- 'I am a man,' said Monsieur Lagnier, 'whom society has deeply wronged since you last saw me.
-- How has society respected those qualities in me?
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