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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sprang upon them as a lion fastens on the neck of some cow or heifer when the herd is feeding in a coppice.
-- Or as a savage lion attacking a herd of cows while they are feeding by thousands in the low-lying meadows by some wide-watered shore the herdsman is at his wit's end how to protect his herd and keeps going about now in the van and now in the rear of his cattle, while the lion springs into the thick of them and fastens on a cow so that they all tremble for fear even so were the Achaeans utterly panic-stricken by Hector and father Jove.
-- As a cow stands lowing over her first calf, even so did yellow-haired Menelaus bestride Patroclus.
-- Thus did he pray, and Pallas Minerva heard his prayer; she made his hands and his feet feel light, and when the runners were at the point of pouncing upon the prize, Ajax, through Miner-va's spite slipped upon some offal that was lying there from the cattle which Achilles had slaughtered in honour of Pa-troclus, and his mouth and nostrils were all filled with cow dung.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sun makes the rocks dance in the heat, and the herd children hear one kite (nev-er any more) whistling almost out of sight overhead, and they know that if they died, or a cow died, that kite would sweep down, and the next kite miles away would see him drop and follow, and the next, and the next, and almost be-fore they were dead there would be a score of hungry kites come out of nowhere.
-- 'How shall I know Sea Cow when I meet him?'
-- Then he remembered in a flash what the Burgomaster gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had found Sea Cow at last.
-- But the sea cows did not answer because Sea Cow cannot talk.
-- Then the Sea Cow began to travel northward very slowly, stopping to hold absurd bowing councils from time to time, and Kotick fol-lowed them, saying to himself, 'People who are such idiots as these are would have been killed long ago if they hadn't found out some safe island.
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：
-- When, in the enthusiasm of my youth, I remarked on this to Rose Waterford, she said:"Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She paid 40 rubles to the midwife for two months' board; 25 rubles it cost her to have the child taken away; 40 rubles the midwife borrowed of her to buy a cow with; the balance was spent on dresses, presents, etc., so that after the confinement she was practically penniless, and was compelled to look for a position.
-- "My cow was never caught."
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：
-- A cow was breathing wet hotness on his hand.
-- He could never cow her, nor dominate her, nor have any right over her; this she would maintain until she had proved it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The red cow didn't die by chance; and your rheumatis m can hardly be reckoned among providential visitations!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the meal was over, the children disappeared, whilst the grown people sat around the fireplace, on which was placed turf, heather, cow dung and dried fish-bones.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had achieved this rush of vivacity and condescension, his Lordship composed himself into the picture after Cuyp, and made a third cow in the group.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- De cow up 'n' died on my han's.'
-- 'No, a cow don't, nuther.'
-- 'Does a cat talk like a cow, or a cow talk like a cat?'
-- 'And ain't it natural and right for a cat and a cow to talk different from US?'
-- Is a cow a man?
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