Irish是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. &adj. 爱尔兰人(的)，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：
-- This was a perfect type of the Irish colonist—a man who, weary of the miseries of his country, had come, with his family, to seek fortune and happiness beyond the seas.
-- From Scotch to Irish is but a handsbreadth.
-- The Tweed, several fathoms wide, digs a deeper trench between Scotland and England than the twenty leagues of Irish Channel, which separates Old Caledonia from the Emerald Isle.
-- The Irish peasant became a landed proprietor, and though his little estate had only been under cultivation for two years, he had five hundred acres cleared by his own hands, and five hundred head of cattle.
-- "And if Ayrton speaks well of me," said the Irish settler, when the narrative ended, "I have nothing but good to say of him.
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：
-- An English spring!Why not an Irish one?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlet with shame and anger, Amy went to and fro six dreadful times, and as each doomed couple, looking oh, so plump and juicy, fell from her reluc-tant hands, a shout from the street completed the anguish of the girls, for it told them that their feast was being exulted over by the little Irish children, who were their sworn foes.
-- cried Laurie, throwing up his hat and catching it again, to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens, and half a dozen Irish children, for they were out of the city now.
-- It was all heavenly, but I was glad to see the Irish coast, and found it very lovely, so green and sunny, with brown cabins here and there, ruins on some of the hills, and gen-tlemen's countryseats in the valleys, with deer feeding in the parks.
-- When I lost sight of Father's dear old face, I felt a trifle blue, and might have shed a briny drop or two, if an Irish lady with four small children, all crying more or less, hadn't diverted my mind, for I amused myself by drop-ping gingerbread nuts over the seat every time they opened their mouths to roar.
-- Day and night she brooded over them with tireless de-votion and anxiety, leaving John to the tender mercies of the help, for an Irish lady now presided over the kitchen depart-ment.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, the husband sends back word that the medicine won't suit his wife's complaint, and so she shan't take it--says she shan't take it, sir!Good, strong, wholesome medicine, as was given with great success to two Irish labourers and a coal-heaver, only a week before--sent 'em for nothing, with a blackin'-bottle in,--and he sends back word that she shan't take it, sir!'
-- The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eliza-beth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would take off his hat, and would silence the light-tongued and the vicious in her presence--much as the Irish keeper of a Bowery hall will humble himself before a Sister of Mercy, and pay toll to charity with a willing and reverent hand.
-- He was of a commonplace Irish type, small of stature, cheaply dressed, and with a head that seemed a smaller edition of some huge ward politician's.
-- They went out, and at the corner the commonplace Irish individual was standing, eyeing him.
-- There was a better hand across the table, held by a pugnacious Irish youth, who was a political hanger-on of the Tammany district in which they were located.
-- "May God starve ye yet," yelled an old Irish woman, who now threw open a nearby window and stuck out her head.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it there all night, and next morning you couldn't see no brass, and it wouldn't feel greasy no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a hair-ball.
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