peasantry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 农民(总称)，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《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The sin and wickedness of the lower orders in this porochial district is frightful!If Parliament don't take their abominable courses under consideration, this country's ruined, and the character of the peasantry gone for ever!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them.
-- For him to say he knew the peasantry would have been the same as to say he knew men.
-- Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally.
-- He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them.
-- "We talk about the peasants drinking; I don't know which drinks most, the peasantry or our own class; the peasants do on holidays, but..." But Kitty took not the slightest interest in discussing the drinking habits of the peasants.
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