cow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 母牛， 奶牛，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His hair could not have been more violently on end, if it had been that moment dressed by the Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Levin, to turn the conversation, explained to Darya Alexandrovna the theory of cow-keeping, based on the principle that the cow is simply a machine for the transformation of food into milk, and so on.
-- General principles, as to the cow being a machine for the production of milk, she looked on with suspicion.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Emma encouraged her talkativeness amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having 'two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed; one of them quite as large as Mrs. Goddard's drawing-room; and of her hav-ing an upper maid who had lived five-and-twenty years with her; and of their having eight cows, two of them Alderneys, and one a little Welch cow, a very pretty little Welch cow in-deed; and of Mrs. Martin's saying as she was so fond of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very hand-some summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to drink tea: a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
-- The young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one, but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of Oak's person.
-- By making inquiries he found that the girl's name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that the cow would go dry in about seven days.
-- The cow had ceased to give milk for that year, and Bathsheba Everdene came up the hill no more.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Afterthey had passed their tenth year, they were sent to old Daddy the plantation cobbler to learn his trade, or to Amos thewheelwright and carpenter, or Phillip the cow man, or Cuffee the mule boy.
-- "How all we gwine tek a cow wid us, Miss Scarlett?
-- We kain tek no cow wid us.
-- Cow ain' no good nohow effenshe ain' been milked lately.
-- Prissy rolled her eyes wildly, peeping first at the set face of her mistress and then at the cow which bawledplaintively.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
-- 'Well,' said the shepherd, 'if you are so fond of her, I will change my cow for your horse; I like to do good to my neighbours, even though I lose by it myself.'
-- Then the shepherd jumped upon the horse, wished Hans and the cow good morning, and away he rode.
-- Hans brushed his coat, wiped his face and hands, rested a while, and then drove off his cow quietly, and thought his bargain a very lucky one.
-- 'If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave him two purses of two hundreds sprugs each, and promised, when we arrived in England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep big with young.
-- While we were thus engaged, I observed a cow passing by, whereupon I point-ed to her, and expressed a desire to go and milk her.
-- For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me.
-- The second way is for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary: and this, if it be skilfully done, will certainly bespeak the favour of the bench.
-- For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire 316 Gulliver's Travelsto know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseas-es she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
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