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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long experience had so precisely taught the animal the difference between such exclamations as "Come in!"
-- The animal plunged; Bathsheba instantly gazed towards it, and saw the blood.
-- The horse bore him away, and the very step of the animal seemed significant of dogged despair.
-- "Think if you will, and be " The sentence was completed by a smart cut of the whip round Poppet's flank, which caused the animal to start forward at a wild pace.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
-- I doubted at first whether I should attempt the cre-ation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first suc-cess to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complete and wonderful as man.
-- Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
-- Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout theafternoon, her voice went on like an animal dying in a trap.
-- Fool that she was, why hadn't she thought that the retreatingarmy would naturally take every vehicle and animal left in the city?
-- Upstairs she could hear Prissy galloping about like a wild animal and the sound maddenedher, for she was galloping just as aimlessly.
-- "Let the animal breathe a bit."
-- They hadnot seen a living human being or animal since the night before.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Softly, softly; it can't be done as quickly as that,' said he, and stood still and waited until the animal was quite close, and then sprang nimbly behind the tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minis-ter; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not.
-- He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endea-vours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England.
-- It now began to be known and talked of in the neigh-bourhood, that my master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a splacnuck, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; which it like-wise imitated in all its actions; seemed to speak in a little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old.
-- My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
-- That the life I had since led was labori-ous enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
-- Bounderby,' said Jem, turning with a smile to Louisa, 'is a noble animal in a comparatively natural state, quite free from the harness in which a conventional hack like myself works.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I assure you, that I begin to think no animal is more intelligent than an Icelandic horse.
-- It was quite natural that I should expect to find these signs, for during the Silurian period the seas contained no fewer than fifteen hundred different animal and vegetable species.
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