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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It will force him to place the good of society before his own.
-- Then he has no words hard enough for the man who does not recognise its sway; for, a member of society now, he realises accurately enough that against him he is powerless.
-- Though she was English, I could not exactly place her, and it was not obvious from what rank in society she sprang, what had been her upbringing, or how she had lived before her marriage.
-- Why do you seek the society of someone who hates and despises you?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A profligate, sir, who has forfeited every claim not only upon those who have the misfortune to be of his blood, but upon society which knows nothing of him but his misdeeds.
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
-- When she had brought all these testimonials of her important position in society to bear upon her young companion, Mrs Jarley rolled them up, and having put them carefully away, sat down again, and looked at the child in triumph.
-- With these words, the speaker tapped himself on the waistcoat to intimate that he was the Jem Groves so highly eulogized; sparred scientifically at a counterfeit Jem Groves, who was sparring at society in general from a black frame over the chimney-piece; and, applying a half-emptied glass of spirits and water to his lips, drank Jem Groves's health.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must fathom the significance of this crime, the danger to society that lurks in such pathological, as it were, individuals as Maslova.
-- You must guard it against infection; it is your duty to guard the innocent, healthy elements of society against contagion, if not destruction."
-- Counsel for the defense, appointed by the court, argued that the theft was committed not in a dwelling-house, and that, though the prisoner pleaded guilty, he was not as dangerous to society as the prosecutor would have them believe.
-- Nothing in society was of any interest to him, and he was entirely absorbed in the affairs of the regiment.
-- But as it is difficult to determine how much anyone should pay, and to whom, and as society needs money for common utilities, let every land owner pay to society the full value of his land--less, if it is poorer; more, if it is better.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.
-- It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes to come to this at last.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Professor," replied the commander, quickly, "I am not what you call a civilised man!I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating.
-- There he interested the Asiatic Society and the Indian Company in his discovery.
-- "A society which has received from the Spanish Government the privilege of seeking those buried galleons.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all that was highest, whether in society or in thought or in public action, or even in art, she was at one, she moved among the foremost, at home with them.
-- It was mechanical, but then society was a mechanism.
-- "She is a social being, as far as society is concerned.
-- Houses and furniture and clothes, they are all terms of an old base world, a detestable society of man.
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