farm是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 农场， 饲养场v. 种田， 经营农牧业，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, as he came out into the farmyard, Levin, like a tree in spring that knows not what form will be taken by the young shoots and twigs imprisoned in its swelling buds, hardly knew what undertakings he was going to begin upon now in the farm work that was so dear to him.
-- It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years.
-- It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.
-- Now he was glad to get away from the neighborhood of the Shtcherbatskys, and still more from his farm work, especially on a shooting expedition, which always in trouble served as the best consolation.
-- But Levin saw that he simply did so from a feeling of propriety, and that his farm was in a flourishing condition.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ran into a farm driveway and stopped under the willows, his headlight on a heap of dented milk-cans, broken harvester wheels, cord-wood, and bamboo fishing-poles.
-- Once the ignition ceased and, while they awaited a garageman summoned by telephone, they viewed a dairy farm with an electrical milking machine.
-- All the way they were broadened by travel, and discovered the wonders of the great world: the movie theater at Roundup, which had for orchestra not only a hand-played piano but also a violin; the black fox farm at Melody; and the Severance water-tower, which was said to be the tallest in Central North Dakota.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were a family of the name of Martin, whomEmma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell very creditably, she believed she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now yours: you are a farmer just beginning; and you ought in common prudence, if you marry at all (which you should certainly not think of doing at present), to marry a woman with money, who would stock a larger farm for you than you have now."
-- Gabriel's farm had been stocked by a dealer on the strength of Oak's promising look and character who was receiving a percentage from the farmer till such time as the advance should be cleared off.
-- "Who's farm were you upon last?"
-- His house stood recessed from the road, and the stables, which are to a farm what a fireplace is to a room, were behind, their lower portions being lost amid bushes of laurel.
-- Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he be-stowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solic-ited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroesand eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
-- They carried on their farm operations withmules and they had no surplus of these, seldom more than four.
-- Tom Slattery could have sold his farm for three times its value to any of the planters in the County.
-- Itcame to Scarlett as a pleasant surprise that she was now a well-to-do young woman, for Charles had not only left herhalf of Aunt Pitty's house but farm lands and town property as well.
-- Then farm wagons, ox carts and even private carriagescommandeered by the medical corps.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Returning back to his own vessel, he was charged with neglect of duty, and the ship given to a favourite page of Publicola, the vice-admiral; whereupon he retired to a poor farm at a great distance from Rome, and there ended his life.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And for six months he should work at farming, so that eventually he and Con-nie could have some small farm of their own, into which he could put his energy.
-- The Grange Farm Old Heanor 29 September I got on here with a bit of contriving, because I knew Richards, the company engineer, in the army.
-- It is a farm belonging to Butler and Smitham Colliery Company, they use it for raising hay and oats for the pit-ponies; not a pri-vate concern.
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