mermaid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 美人鱼，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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wonder whether she is a dragon by-the-bye, or something in the mermaid way.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where would be the use of his bringing us a charade made by a friend upon a mermaid or a shark?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or rather, she left about half of herself at eighteen years of age behind, and grafted the rest on to the relict of the late Mr F.; thus making a moral mermaid of herself, which her once boy-lover contemplated with feelings wherein his sense of the sorrowful and his sense of the comical were curiously blended.
-- She said it with so much heart that Clennam would have given a great deal to buy his old character of her on the spot, and throw it and the mermaid away for ever.
-- There is not much doubt that when she worked herself into full mermaid condition, she did actually believe whatever she said in it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, they went to the bottom, and a nice mermaid welcomed them, but was much grieved on find-ing the box of headless knights, and kindly pickled them in brine, hoping to discover the mystery about them, for being a woman, she was curious.
-- By-and-by a diver came down, and the mermaid said, 'I'll give you a box of pearls if you can take it up, ' for she wanted to restore the poor things to life, and couldn't raise the heavy load herself.
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