animal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 动物， 野兽， 牲畜a. 动物的， 野兽的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The brisk fire of questioning to which he was -ex76 Sons and Loversposed, elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, an animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talk-ed sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by any-body, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
-- The poor animal kicked; the girl laughed, and pulled Gerda into bed with her.
-- The animal was strong and handsome, and away they went at full gallop round the lawn.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's cultivated, one sees, simply to be able to despise culture, as they despise everything but animal pleasures."
-- "But don't you all care for these animal pleasures?"
-- "It will end sooner than you and your lover have planned!If you must have the satisfaction of animal passion..." "Alexey Alexandrovitch!I won't say it's not generous, but it's not like a gentleman to strike anyone who's down."
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
-- Looking round like some little wild animal at the grown-up big people with her bright black eyes, she smiled, unmistakably pleased at their admiring her, and holding her legs sideways, she pressed vigorously on her arms, and rapidly drew her whole back up after, and then made another step forward with her little arms.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They soon reached a small hut, near which, enclosed within some high palings, was the animal in question.
-- Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, then proposed to purchase the animal outright, and at first offered a thousand pounds for him.
-- The Parsee perched himself on the elephant's neck, and at nine o'clock they set out from the village, the animal marching off through the dense forest of palms by the shortest cut.
-- He held himself ready to bestride the animal at a moment's notice, should flight become necessary; but he evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid the thick foliage, in which they were wholly concealed.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had studied the forms of bacteria, they had handled Petri dishes and platinum loops, they had proudly grown on potato slices the harmless red cultures of Bacillus prodigiosus, and they had come now to pathogenic germs and the inoculation of a living animal with swift disease.
-- He said quietly, "This poor animal will now soon be dead as Moses."
-- He had learned from Gottlieb the trick of using the word "control" in reference to the person or animal or chemical left untreated during an experiment, as a standard for comparison; and there is no trick more infuriating.
-- It has the twenty-ninth and thirtieth stories of the McGurk Building, and the roof is devoted to its animal house and to tiled walks along which (above a world of stenographers and bookkeepers and earnest gentlemen who desire to sell Better-bilt Garments to the golden dons of the Argentine) saunter rapt scientists dreaming of osmosis in Spirogyra.
-- They inspected the marine biology aquarium, the pathological museum, and the animal house, at sight of which one sprightly lady demanded of Wickett, "Oh, the poor little guinea pigs and darling rabbicks!Now honestly, Doctor, don't you think it would be ever so much nicer if you let them go free, and just worked with your test- tubes?"
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：
-- A dull animal rage boiled within him.
-- 'I never have liked water,' he thought, 'even in a landscape,' and he sud-denly smiled again at a strange idea: 'Surely now all these questions of taste and comfort ought not to matter, but I've become more particular, like an animal that picks out a spe-cial place 芒聙娄 for such an occasion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I still believe him, invirtue of this carriage, his animal spirits, his delightful voice, hishandsome face and figure, and, for aught I know, of some inbornpower of attraction besides (which I think a few people possess), tohave carried a spell with him to which it was a natural weakness toyield, and which not many persons could withstand.
-- and wasdragging me against the donkey in a violent manner, as if therewere any affinity between that animal and a magistrate, when hechanged his mind, jumped into the can, sat upon my box, and,exclaiming that he would drive to the pollis straight, rattled awayharder than ever.
-- Misty ideas of being ayoung man at my own disposal, of the importance attaching to ayoung man at his own disposal, of the wonderful things to be seenand done by that magnificent animal and the wonderful effects hecould not fail to make upon society, lured me away.
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.
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