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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stooped on a sudden and picked up an almost perfect shell, which had undoubtedly belonged to some animal very much resembling some of the present day.
-- "Well, said the Professor, with the most imperturbable tranquillity, "it is the shell of a crustaceous animal of the extinct order of the trilobites; nothing more, I assure you."
-- It was quite evident to me that we were ascending the scale of animal life of which man forms the summit.
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：
-- And the same solitary aloneness she had seen in him naked, she now saw in him clothed: solitary, and intent, like an animal that works alone, but also brooding, like a soul that recoils away, away from all human contact.
-- Her pointed keen animal breasts tipped and stirred as she moved.
-- To have found a man who was not afraid and not ashamed!She looked at him now, sleeping so like a wild animal asleep, gone, gone in the re-moteness of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Excited into a still greater resemblance to a caged wild animal by his anxiety to know more, the prisoner leaped nimbly down, ran round the chamber, leaped nimbly up again, clasped the grate and tried to shake it, leaped down and ran, leaped up and listened, and never rested until the noise, becoming more and more distant, had died away.
-- The most striking of these was perhaps the relishing manner in which he remarked on the pensioner's infirmities and failings, as if he were a gracious Keeper making a running commentary on the decline of the harmless animal he exhibited.
-- Her uncle was so far rescued from that shadow of old, that he wore the clothes they gave him, and performed some ablutions as a sacrifice to the family credit, and went where he was taken, with a certain patient animal enjoyment, which seemed to express that the air and change did him good.
-- 'I must openly admit that I have no pretensions,' said Flora, 'but having known the dear little thing which under altered circumstances appears a liberty but is not so intended and Goodness knows there was no favour in half-a-crown a-day to such a needle as herself but quite the other way and as to anything lowering in it far from it the labourer is worthy of his hire and I am sure I only wish he got it oftener and more animal food and less rheumatism in the back and legs poor soul.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nice animal for a pleasure party, wasn't it?'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan.
-- Aye, aye," he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; "Aye, aye!it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
-- Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
-- Be this conceit of mine as it may, gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled housings of your last viceroy's snorting charger; and a brain, and a heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagne's father.
-- Consider!Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- This command was accompanied with a kick, which sent the animal to the other end of the room.
-- Whether his meditations were so intense as to be disturbed by the dog's winking, or whether his feelings were so wrought upon by his reflections that they required all the relief derivable from kicking an unoffending animal to allay them, is matter for argument and consideration.
-- This resistance only infuriated Mr. Sikes the more; who, dropping on his knees, began to assail the animal most furiously.
-- said Sikes, regarding the animal with a kind of grim and ferocious approval.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attention of the of-ficers, to whom her uncle's good dinners, and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When order had been restored, the animal feeling of opposition relaxed.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every animal is grateful for kind-ness and petting, and they wouldn't THINK of hurt- ing a person that pets them.
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