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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Edward, who was immediately apprised of the fact, came up on the poop a few minutes after with his cousin, and asked John Mangles, the captain, what sort of an animal he thought it was.
-- "Don't you see the animal has been such an inveterate tippler that he has not only drunk the wine, but swallowed the bottle?"
-- This man was endowed in an eminent degree, not only with ordinary animal courage, that physical bravery of the battle-field, which is solely due to muscular energy, but he had what is far nobler—moral courage, firmness of soul.
-- The Major had fired, and it seemed to him that an animal had fallen close by, and that the whole herd, yelling louder than ever, had rushed down and disappeared among the declivities lighted up by the reflection of the volcano.
-- "By this," replied the Major, holding up the animal he had killed.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it.
-- 'I find that before the terrible event occurred several peo-ple had seen a creature upon the moor which corresponds with this Baskerville demon, and which could not possi-bly be any animal known to science.
-- Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.
-- The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness, like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.
-- There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, you have no idea what a cunning little animal he is; dirty little gossip!He has the most extraordinary nose for smelling out other people's secrets, or anything approach-ing to scandal.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned with animal swiftness.
-- A sharp, hoarse cry of animal pain came from the enclo-sure behind us.
-- said he, absentmindedly, knitting his brows as the animal yelled out sharply.
-- Presently I heard an animal wailing again, and taking it to be the puma, I turned about and walked in a direction diametrically opposite to the sound.
-- The morning breeze blew very pleasantly through the unglazed window, and that and the food contributed to the sense of animal comfort which I experienced.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accident, or one of those un-accountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America, and distinguished by their habit of pacing.
-- The instant the father seconded this intimation by an ex-pressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The cat," answered Pinocchio, seeing that little animal busily playing with some shavings in the corner of the room.
-- He turned toward the poor animal and said to him: "But if I help you, will you promise not to bother me again by running after me?"
-- But the little animal turned suddenly and gave him such a terrible kick in the stomach that Pinocchio was thrown to the ground and fell with his legs in the air.
-- But the Little Man, instead of laughing, became so loving toward the little animal that, with another kiss, he bit off half of his left ear.
-- The next morning the veterinary--that is, the animal doctor--declared that he would be lame for the rest of his life.
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