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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aglaya was the only one of the family whose good graces he could not gain, and who always spoke to him haughtily, but it so happened that the boy one day succeeded in giving the proud maiden a surprise.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus; for she had gone with Mars secretly into an upper chamber, and he had lain with her.
-- So long as he lives to look upon the light of the sun, he is in heaviness, and though I go to him I cannot help him; King Agamemnon has made him give up the maiden whom the sons of the Achaeans had awarded him, and he wastes with sorrow for her sake.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tomahawk grazed her shoulder, and cutting the withes which bound her to the tree, left the maiden at liberty to fly.
-- But Cora Munro is a maiden too discreet, and of a mind too elevated and improved, to need the guardianship even of a father.'
-- I did, there- fore, what an honest man should restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country in the service of my king.
-- The elder maiden is con-veyed to a neighboring people, whose lodges are situate beyond yonder black pinnacle of rock; while the younger is detained among the women of the Hurons, whose dwell-ings are but two short miles hence, on a table-land, where the fire had done the office of the axe, and prepared theplace for their reception.'
-- 'Of the graver and more solemn character; though it must be acknowledged that, in spite of all my endeavors, the maiden weeps oftener than she smiles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In face she bore a striking resemblance to her brother, Sampson so exact, indeed, was the likeness between them, that had it consorted with Miss Brass's maiden modesty and gentle womanhood to have assumed her brother's clothes in a frolic and sat down beside him, it would have been difficult for the oldest friend of the family to determine which was Sampson and which Sally, especially as the lady carried upon her upper lip certain reddish demonstrations, which, if the imagination had been assisted by her attire, might have been mistaken for a beard.
-- In some of these flourishes it went close to Miss Sally's head; the ragged edges of the head-dress fluttered with the wind it raised; advance it but an inch, and that great brown knot was on the ground: yet still the unconscious maiden worked away, and never raised her eyes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Also of his truly beloved and truly loving wife, AMY, whose maiden name was DORRIT, Who survived his loss not quite forty-eight hours, And who breathed her last in the Marshalsea aforesaid.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't think I shall care to have much to do with any of them, except one sweetfaced maiden lady, who looks as if she had something in her.
-- The maiden lady is a Miss Norton, rich, cultivated, and kind.
-- She did pity the Davis girls, who were awkward, plain, and destitute of escort, except a grim papa and three grimmer maiden aunts, and she bowed to them in her friendliest manner as she passed, which was good of her, as it permitted them to see her dress, and burn with curiosity to know who her dis-tinguished-looking friend might be.
-- But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she pru-dently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.
-- Within lie snoods that bound her hair, Slippers that have danced their last, Faded flowers laid by with care, Fans whose airy toils are past, Gay valentines, all ardent flames, Trifles that have borne their part In girlish hopes and fears and shames, The record of a maiden heart Now learning fairer, truer spells, Hearing, like a blithe refrain, The silver sound of bridal bells In the falling summer rain.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She asked her, at differ-ent times, how many sisters she had, whether they were older or younger than herself, whether any of them were likely to be married, whether they were handsome, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept, and what had been her mother's maiden name?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the noise, a window opened and a lovely maiden looked out.
-- "Oh, Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair," cried Pinocchio, "open, I beg of you.
-- CHAPTER 16 The Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair sends for the poor Marionette, puts him to bed, and calls three Doctors to tell her if Pinocchio is dead or alive.
-- Luckily for him, the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair once again looked out of her window.
-- asked the Falcon, bending his beak in deep reverence (for it must be known that, after all, the Lovely Maiden with Azure Hair was none other than a very kind Fairy who had lived, for more than a thousand years, in the vicinity of the forest).
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