maiden是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (文学) 少女, 未嫁女子; a. 未婚女子的, 初次的, 处女的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is stand-ing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.
-- The Little Robber Maiden hey drove through the dark wood; but the carriage Tshone like a torch, and it dazzled the eyes of the robbers, so that they could not bear to look at it.
-- The little robber maiden was as tall as Gerda, but stronger, broader-shouldered, and of dark complexion; her eyes were quite black; they looked almost melancholy.
-- The little robber maiden looked at her with a serious air, nodded her head slightly, and said, 'They shall not kill you, even if I am angry with you: then I will do it myself"; and she dried Gerda's eyes, and put both her hands in the hand-some muff, which was so soft and warm.
-- Beside them, on laths and perches, sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep, seemingly; but yet they moved a little when the robber maiden came.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While she played, a faded woman and thickish, she fell into a great dreaming, and suddenly Martin had a picture of her as a gay, good, dove-like maiden who had admired the energetic young medical student, Almus Pickerbaugh.
-- And once a hostess who of old time had been proud to know him, a hostess whose maiden name was Straufnabel and who had married into the famous old Anglican family of Rosemont when Gottlieb bade her "Auf Wiedersehen" cried out upon him, "Dr. Gottlieb, I'm very sorry, but the use of that disgusting language is not permitted in this house!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll admit that to hear such a confession, alone, from an angel of sixteen in a muslin frock, with little curls, with a flush of maiden shyness in her cheeks and tears of enthusi-asm in her eyes is rather fascinating!Isn't it fascinating?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediatelyupon the separation she took her maiden name again, bought acottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, establishedherself there as a single woman with one servant, and wasunderstood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexibleretirement.
-- Also, that she hadno other relations than two aunts, maiden sisters of Mr. Spenlow,who lived at Putney, and who had not held any other than chancecommunication with their brother for many years.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red-jacketed and dark-haired maiden seemed to think so too, for she carelessly glanced over him, and told her man to drive on.
-- But at last I believe he cured it by making her take off her wedding-ring and calling her by her maiden name as they sat together after the shop was shut, and so 'a would get to fancy she was only his sweetheart, and not married to him at all.
-- Freshness was exhaled in an essence from the varied contours of bank and hollow, as if the earth breathed maiden breath; and the pleased birds were hymning to the scene.
-- That she had never, by look, word, or sign, encouraged a man to approach her that she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole were facts now bitterly remembered.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate,and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished.
-- I've never rescued a maiden in distress.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
-- Now there was once a maiden whose name was Jorinda.
-- Sud-denly a voice cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- Again it cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
-- 'I went alone through a forest and came at last to a house; not a soul could I find within, but a bird that was hanging in a cage on the wall cried: 'Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, 136 Grimms' Fairy Tales Linger not in this murderers' lair.'
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：
-- Towards Connie the Squire was always rather gallant; he thought her an at-tractive demure maiden and rather wasted on Clifford, and it was a thousand pities she stood no chance of bringing forth an heir to Wragby.
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