maturity是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 成熟， 到期，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundred fold more than 221they do at present; with innumerable other happy propos-als.
-- He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crude-ness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity un-der conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the third place, she wished to exhibit Jessica, who was gaining in maturity and beauty, and whom she hoped to marry to a man of means.
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