woman是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 妇女， 成年女子，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some men-tion was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, having perished there in the snow.
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 is due to no accident that when one of his most important works, The Woman of Samaria,芒聭路 was sold at Christie's shortly after the discussion which followed the publication of Mr. Strickland's biography, it fetched POUNDS 235 less than it had done nine months before when it was bought by the distinguished collector whose sudden death had brought it once more under the hammer.
-- Woman had not yet altogether come into her own.
-- She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
-- She was a woman of thirty-seven, rather tall and plump, without being fat; she was not pretty, but her face was pleasing, chiefly, perhaps, on account of her kind brown eyes.
-- She was the only woman of the three whose face was free of make-up, and by contrast with the others she seemed simple and unaffected.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Nell will be a woman soon,' returned the other, 'and, bred in your faith, she'll forget her brother unless he shows himself sometimes.'
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- 'No woman need have, if she was true to herself,' rejoined the stout lady.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- 'Very well,' said Mrs Quilp, nodding her head, 'as I said just now, it's very easy to talk, but I say again that I know that I'm sure Quilp has such a way with him when he likes, that the best looking woman here couldn't refuse him if I was dead, and she was free, and he chose to make love to her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Immediately behind him came a woman with weary countenance and disheveled gray hair, wearing a crown-laced jacket, and girdled with a blue-edged sash.
-- The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have been a long time in confinement, and which reminds one of potato-sprouts in a cellar.
-- The warden was about to shut the door, when a pale, severe, wrinkled face of an old woman with disheveled hair was thrust out.
-- The old woman began to say something to Maslova.
-- The old woman pressed her forehead to the grating, and said in a hoarse voice: "Above all, don't speak too much; stick to one thing, and that is all."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little "genre" pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Gericault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.
-- I counted five four men, one of whom was standing at the helm, and a woman standing by the poop, holding an infant in her arms.
-- Thus the ancients, observing their soft and expressive looks, which cannot be surpassed by the most beautiful look a woman can give, their clear voluptuous eyes, their charming positions, and the poetry of their manners, metamorphosed them, the male into a triton and the female into a mermaid.
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：
-- She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but heavily proud.
-- One of them she knew, a tall, slow, reluctant woman with a weight of fair hair and a pale, long face.
-- She was the most remarkable woman in the Midlands.
-- Her father was a Derbyshire Baronet of the old school, she was a woman of the new school, full of intellectuality, and heavy, nerve-worn with consciousness.
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