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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stretched his arms towards his child, but the boy cried and nestled in his nurse's bosom, scared at the sight of his father's armour, and at the horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet.
-- And Hector answered, 'Noble Ajax, son of Telamon, cap-tain of the host, treat me not as though I were some puny boy or woman that cannot fight.
-- I care no more than if a girl or some silly boy had hit me.
-- Youths and maidens all blithe and full of glee, carried the luscious fruit in plaited baskets; and with them there went a boy who made sweet music with his lyre, and sang the Linos-song with his clear boyish voice.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made a step, the boy started back with an exclamation, and with a rapid movement I swung myself over into the portico of the next house.
-- But the smaller boy was sharp-eyed enough to follow the movement, and before I was well down the steps and upon the pavement, he had recovered from his momentary astonishment and was shouting out that the feet had gone over the wall.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.
-- Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera's beautiful black skin, 'Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?'
-- So he strode round the corner and met the boy, took the pot from his hand, and disappeared into the mist while the boy howled with fear.
-- Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
-- The boy could climb almost as well as he could swim, and swim almost as well as he could run.
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：
-- I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.'
-- repeated Hawkeye, with singular and ill-con-cealed disdain; 'do you take me for a whimpering boy at the apronstring of one of your old gals; and this good rifle on my knee for the feather of a goose's wing, my ox's horn for a bottle of ink, and my leathern pouch for a cross-barred handkercher to carry my dinner?
-- A difficult matter it was, too, to keep this Mohican boy snug in the ambushment.
-- I could wish, though, it had befallen an accursed Mingo, rather than that gay young boy from the old countries.'
-- 'If the Jewish boy might tame the great spirit of Saul by the sound of his harp, and the words of sacred song, it may not be amiss,' he said, 'to try the potency of music here.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; she has a boy and a girl.
-- The son his name was Robert was a boy of sixteen at Rugby; and you saw him in flannels and a cricket cap, and again in a tail-coat and a stand-up collar.
-- When I was a little boy I said I would marry the daughter of the harness-maker who lived next door.
-- Strickland, a boy fresh from school, went into a broker's office without any feeling of distaste.
-- I wandered round to the kitchen, but it was locked, and on a bench outside it a native boy was sleeping.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft at the beginning of the year had gone to Richmond on business, with a young boy of fifteen from New Jersey, son of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he had been his own child.
-- The courageous boy knew of the sailor's plan, and it was not without anxiety that he awaited the result of the proposal being made to the engineer.
-- The sailor could rely upon Herbert; the young boy was well up in natural history, and always had had quite a passion for the science.
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