ancient是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 古代的， 古老的， 古式的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But poverty kept him from fulfillment of his summer longing to sit beneath the poplars by the Rhine or the tranquil Seine, at a table on whose checkered cloth were bread and cheese and wine and dusky cherries, those ancient and holy simplicities of all the world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside him stood a girl of nine years old, tall and thin, wearing a thin and ragged chemise with an ancient cashmere pelisse flung over her bare shoulders, long outgrown and barely reach-ing her knees.
-- Then, I remember, I main-tain in my article that all 芒聙娄 well, legislators and leaders of 368 Crime and Punishmentmen, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed ei-ther, if that bloodshed often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law were of use to their cause.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's aplace that has an ancient monopoly in suits about people's wills 321and people's marriages, and disputes among ships and boats.'
-- What time Miss Mills sat looking at the moon, murmuring versesand recalling, I suppose, the ancient days when she and earth hadanything in common.
-- The venerable cathedraltowers, and the old jackdaws and rooks whose airy voices madethem more retired than perfect silence would have done; thebattered gateways, once stuck full with statues, long thrown down,and crumbled away, like the reverential pilgrims who had gazedupon them; the still nooks, where the ivied growth of centuriescrept over gabled ends and ruined walls; the ancient houses, thepastoral landscape of field, orchard, and garden; everywhereoneverything- I felt the same serener air, the same calm, thoughtful,softening spirit.
-- Of the clergyman and clerk appearing; of a few boatmen and someother people strolling in; of an ancient mariner behind me, stronglyflavouring the church with rum; of the service beginning in a deepvoice, and our all being very attentive.
-- I stood in the window, and looked across the ancient street at theopposite houses, recalling how I had watched them on wetafternoons, when I first came there; and how I had used tospeculate about the people who appeared at any of the windows,and had followed them with my eyes up and down stairs, whilewomen went clicking along the pavement in pattens, and the dullrain fell in slanting lines, and poured out of the waterspout yonder,and flowed into the road.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family and that the Eltons were nobody.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and intact, and a few of the old houses; but the ancient malt-house, which was formerly so characteristic of the parish, has been pulled down these twenty years; also most of the thatched and dormered cottages that were once lifeholds.
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- Obliged, to some extent, to forgo dreaming in order to find the way, he reached the churchyard, and passed round it under the wall where several ancient trees grew.
-- The ancient maltster sitting in the midst turned at this his turning being as the turning of a rusty crane.
-- "Sit down, Shepherd Oak," continued the ancient man of malt.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.
-- After having made a few preparatory experiments, he con-cluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: 'The ancient teachers of this science,' said he, 'promised impossibilities and performed nothing.
-- There only remained a resolution to return to my ancient studies and to devote myself to a science for which I believed myself to possess a natural talent.
-- Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each oth-er's blood.
-- 'The volume of Plutarch's Lives which I possessed con-tained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sacrilegious though it might be, Scarlett always saw, through her closed eyes, the upturned face of Ellen and not theBlessed Virgin, as the ancient phrases were repeated.
-- The mountain fastnesses have always been the refuge and the strong forts of invaded peoples from ancient times.
-- My memory of ancient history ispoor."
-- In the unholy crimson glow thatbathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
-- She peered through the gathering dusk down the two lines of ancient trees.
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