host是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 许多, 一大群; 主人; 旅店老板，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：
-- When his host followed him out on the staircase with a candle, to light him down the stairs, the day was coldly looking in through its grimy windows.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Our host himself!
-- He's a nice child, like our host here.
-- Chapter 9 It was past five, and several guests had already arrived, before the host himself got home.
-- he said, smiling genially at their host and holding out a tiny wine glass to him.
-- Vassenka Veslovsky, her husband, and even Sviazhsky, and many other people she knew, would never have considered this question, and would have readily believed what every well-bred host tries to make his guests feel, that is, that all that is well-ordered in his house has cost him, the host, no trouble whatever, but comes of itself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- V R. A. Hopburn, the eminent patent-lawyer, as he drove away from the Arrowsmith-Lanyon mansion grunted at his wife: "I don't mind a host throwing the port at you, if he thinks you're a chump, but I do mind his being bored at your daring to express any opinion whatever.
-- I don't think I'm too fussy, but I don't quite see why we should go to a house where the host apparently enjoys flatly contradicting you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, in the privacyof my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly werean orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different timesadopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute; and thatMrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who haddied very poor.
-- All this time we, the outsiders, remainedoppressed by the tremendous interests involved in theconversation; and our host regarded us with pride, as the victimsof a salutary awe and astonishment.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A line from me would bring you a little host of acquaintance; and my particular friend, Mrs. Partridge, the lady I have always resided with when in Bath, would be most happy to shew you any attentions, and would be the very person for you to go into public with.'
-- Otway, I protest! and good Mr. Otway, and Miss Otway and Miss Caroline. Such a host of friends! and Mr. George and Mr. Arthur! How do you do?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was considered an unexceptionable place for obtaining the necessary food and rest: Host Trencher (as he was jauntily called by the local newspaper) being a substantial man of high repute for catering through all the country round.
-- The tent was divided into first and second-class compartments, and at the end of the first-class division was a yet further enclosure for the most exclusive, fenced off from the body of the tent by a luncheon-bar, behind which the host himself stood bustling about in white apron and shirt-sleeves, and looking as if he had never lived anywhere but under canvas all his life.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he moved slowly to the side of thewagon, there was a ghostly semblance of the old host of Tara welcoming guests, as if Gerald spoke words from out ofshadowy memory.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sauces, wines, all the accessories we wanted, and all of the best, were given out by our host from his dumb-waiter; and when they had made the circuit of the table, he always put them back again.
-- Drummle upon this, informed our host that he much preferred our room to our company, and that as to skill he was more than our master, and that as to strength he could scatter us like chaff.
-- As I stood idle by Mr. Jaggers's fire, its rising and falling flame made the two casts on the shelf look as if they were playing a diabolical game at bo-peep with me; while the pair of coarse, fat office candles that dimly lighted Mr. Jaggers as he wrote in a corner were decorated with dirty winding-sheets, as if in remembrance of a host of hanged clients.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the host had three daughters, who saw the goose and were curious to know what such a wonderful bird might be, and would have liked to have one of its golden feathers.
-- The host who heard this, laughed and said: 'If that is your desire, there ought to be a good opportunity for you here.'
-- He let the host have no rest, until the latter told him, that not far from thence stood a haunted castle where anyone could very easily learn what shuddering was, if he would but watch in it for three nights.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first glimpse of sociality the host had had for many days.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The repast, which was more Danish than Icelandic, was in itself nothing, but the excessive hospitality of our host made us enjoy it doubly.
-- In the innocence of his simple heart, our host did not perceive the irony of these remarks.
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