boy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 男孩子， 儿子； 男性服务员，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- white whale, shirr!shirr!Here have I heard all their chat just now, and the white whale shirr!shirr! but spoken of once!and only this evening it makes me jingle all over like my tambourine that anaconda of an old man swore 'em in to hunt him!Oh, thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!
-- See, Flask, only see how pale he looks pale in the very buttons of his eyes look it wasn't the coat it must have been the ""My boy, my own boy is among them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was no very difficult matter for the boy to call tears into his eyes.
-- 'The boy is a fool--I thought he was,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat.
-- What could the boy be crying for?
-- Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more-- except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounces and a quarter of bread besides.
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.
-- But I have always ob-served, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet I heard afterwards that she reported all the discourse to him, and that my father, after showing a great concern at it, said to her, with a sigh, 'That boy might be happy if he would stay at home; but if he goes abroad, he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born: I can give no consent to it.'
-- He, thinking no harm, agreed, and being in the head of the boat, set the sails; and, as I had the helm, I ran the boat out near a league farther, and then brought her to, as if I would fish; when, giving the boy the helm, I stepped forward to where the Moor was, and making as if I stooped for something behind him, I took him by surprise with my arm under his waist, and tossed him clear overboard into the sea.
-- The boy smiled in my face, and spoke so innocently that I could not distrust him, and swore to be faithful to me, and go all over the world with me.
-- We came into this creek in the evening, resolv-ing to swim on shore as soon as it was dark, and discover the country; but as soon as it was quite dark, we heard such dreadful noises of the barking, roaring, and howling of wild creatures, of we knew not what kinds, that the poor boy was ready to die with fear, and begged of me not to go on shore till day.
-- However, I was glad to see the boy so cheerful, and I gave him a dram (out of our patron's case of bottles) to cheer him up.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
-- In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.
-- Her departure, therefore, was fixed on; and within an hour after Mr. Harris's arrival, she set off, with her little boy and his nurse, for the house of a near relation of Mr. Palmer's, who lived a few miles on the other side of Bath; whither her husband promised, at her earnest entreaty, to join her in a day or two; and whither she was almost equally urgent with her mother to accompany her.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An office boy approached her.
-- She went foolishly out, the office boy deferentially swinging the door for her, and gladly sank into the obscuring crowd.
-- "Call Mr. Brown, Willie," said the elevator man to a boy near by.
-- --but he compromised by telling the boy that there would be no reply.
-- Then he called Harry, the boy of all work around the place.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
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