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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The host and hostess were so pleasant, and the big table, with its abundant fare, looked so inviting, that it would have been ungracious not to have seated themselves.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He also became aware that his host would not accompany him on his adventurous expedition, and that next day we should have a guide.
-- Our worthy host delighted my uncle, Professor Hardwigg, by giving him a good map of Iceland, a most important and precious document for a mineralogist.
-- As soon as we had freed ourselves from our heavy traveling costume, the voice of our host was heard calling to us to come into the kitchen, the only room in which the Icelanders ever make any fire, no matter how cold it may be.
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：
-- She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands.
-- Their host was a heavy, rather coarse Scotchman who had made a good fortune in Italy before the war, and had been knighted for his ultrapatriotism during the war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strange, if the little sick-room light were in effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out!Which of the vast multitude of travellers, under the sun and the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another; which of the host may, with no suspicion of the journey's end, be travelling surely hither?
-- As they broke up for the night, Arthur overheard Doyce ask his host if he could give him half an hour's conversation before breakfast in the morning?
-- The host replying willingly, Arthur lingered behind a moment, having his own word to add to that topic.
-- The host needed no translation of the question.
-- 'Pardon,' returned the host composedly, 'give him the opportunity and he will do it without doubt.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Lau-rie, knitting his black brows as if he did not regard his young host in the light of a pleasant addition to the party.
-- Congratulating himself that a handsome repast had been ordered that morning, feeling sure that it would be ready to the minute, and indulging in pleasant an-ticipations of the charming effect it would produce, when his pretty wife came running out to meet him, he escorted his friend to his mansion, with the irrepressible satisfaction of a young host and husband.
-- He had carried it off as a good joke with Scott, excused his little wife as well as he could, and played the host so hospitably that his friend enjoyed the impromptu dinner, and promised to come again, but John was angry, though he did not show it, he felt that Meg had deserted him in his hour of need.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned.
-- And consequently Derick and all his host were now in valiant chase of this unnearable brute.
-- Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapory spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
-- If the wind only held, little doubt had they, that chased through these Straits of Sunda, the vast host would only deploy into the Oriental seas to witness the capture of not a few of their number.
-- A low advancing hum was soon heard; and then like to the tumultuous masses of block-ice when the great river Hudson breaks up in Spring, the entire host of whales came tumbling upon their inner centre, as if to pile themselves up in one common mountain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The host smiled, disappeared, and shortly afterwards returned with a steaming jorum: of which, the first gulp brought the water into Mr. Bumble's eyes.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were handsome, bustling, successful affairs, with a host of clerks and a swarm of patrons.
-- Bartenders and assistants might come and go, singly or in groups, but, so long as he was present, the host of old-time customers would barely notice the change.
-- Then, remembering her husband's part in the affair, she immediately fell a prey to a host of young suspicions, of which, however, she gave no sign.
-- It could not give him back his host of friends, his name, his house and family, nor Carrie, as he had meant to have her.
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