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：
-- Giving them reason to believe he was merely employed in a consul-tation concerning the future route, he spurred his charger, and drew the reins again when the animal had carried him within a few yards of the place where the sullen runner still stood, leaning against the tree.
-- The wooded banks of the river seemed again deserted by everything possessing animal life.
-- Placing Alice, then, on the same animal with Cora, he seized the bridle, and com-menced his route by plunging deeper into the forest.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plow-horse, that had outlived almost everything but its vi-ciousness.
-- As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The faithful animal had voluntarily leaped out to help his master.
-- So the sailor actively pursued his researches, though he exclaimed, when some animal which he had not even time to recognize fled into the long grass, "If only we had had the dog Top!"
-- They were determined to follow Top, wherever the intelligent animal wished to lead them.
-- The magnificent animal bounded barking to his master, and caresses were lavished on him.
-- The hunters had scarcely entered the bushes when they saw Top engaged in a struggle with an animal which he was holding by the ear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've got a animal here,' said Jerry, putting his hand into the capacious pocket of his coat, and diving into one corner as if he were feeling for a small orange or an apple or some such article, 'a animal here, wot I think you know something of, Short.'
-- said Quilp, hissing and worrying the animal till he was nearly mad.
-- Dick stood at the desk in a state of utter stupefaction, staring with all his might at the beauteous Sally, as if she had been some curious animal whose like had never lived.
-- 'A beautiful animal indeed!'
-- This pony had a little phaeton behind him, and a man in it; but neither man nor phaeton seemed to embarrass him in the least, as he reared up on his hind legs, or stopped, or went on, or stood still again, or backed, or went side-ways, without the smallest reference to them just as the fancy seized him, and as if he were the freest animal in creation.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His true self he then considered his spiritual being; now, his healthy, vigorous, animal self was his true ego.
-- To live according to the faith that was in him was burdensome; every question would have to be decided almost always against his animal ego, which was seeking light pleasures; but reposing his faith in others, there remained nothing to decide, everything having been decided, and decided always against the spiritual and in favor of the animal ego.
-- It may be that in the depth of his soul there was already a mischievous intention toward Katiousha, prompted by his now unbridled animal ego, but he was not aware of it, he merely desired to visit those places in which he lived so happily, and see his somewhat queer, but amiable and good-natured, aunts, who always surrounded the atmosphere around him with love and admiration, and also to see the lovely Katiousha, of whom he had such pleasant recollections.
-- In Nekhludoff, as in all people, there were two beings; one spiritual, who sought only such happiness for himself as also benefited others; and the animal being, seeking his own happiness for the sake of which he is willing to sacrifice that of the world.
-- During this period of his insane egotism, called forth by the life in the army and in St. Petersburg, the animal man dominated him and completely suppressed the spiritual man.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground.
-- In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
-- I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx, and startling some white animal that, in the dim light, I took for a small deer.
-- I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind a strange animal in an unknown world.
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