female是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 女性(的) , [语，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's enough for you,' retorted Mr. Cruncher, 'to be the wife of a honest tradesman, and not to occupy your female mind with calculations when he took to his trade or when he didn't.
-- The word 'wife' seemed to serve as a gloomy reminder 358 A tale of two citiesto Defarge, to say with sudden impatience, 'In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?'
-- The 'sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine,' was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name.
-- Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the 389general gaze from the foundations of the world the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.
-- On his house-top, he displayed pike and cap, as a good citizen must, and in a window he had stationed his saw inscribed as his 'Little Sainte Guillotine' for the great sharp female was by that time popularly canonised.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here sat two female figures, a young and an old one.
-- They were, namely, casts of female friends, whose bodily or mental deformities were here most faithfully preserved.
-- With the snake-like writhings of an idea he glided into another female heart; but this seemed to him like a large holy fane.
-- 'How plump, how beautiful she is!She must have been fed on nut-kernels,' said the old female robber, who had a long, scrubby beard, and bushy eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.
-- The robbers sat round the fire, sang and drank; and the old female robber jumped about so, that it was quite dreadful for Gerda to see her.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One wild untrained female voice broke into a song, and sang it alone through a verse, and then the same verse was taken up and repeated by half a hundred strong healthy voices, of all sorts, coarse and fine, singing in unison.
-- It was not merely the sisters, the women-friends and female relations of the bride who were following every detail of the ceremony.
-- Through the closed doors came the sounds of the discreet staccato accompaniment of the orchestra, and a single female voice rendering distinctly a musical phrase.
-- On the second and third days there was business relating to the finances of the nobility and the female high school, of no importance whatever, as Sergey Ivanovitch explained, and Levin, busy seeing after his own affairs, did not attend the meetings.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are free to marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for the rats themselves, they flourished, they were glad in the land, and each female produced from ten to two hundred offspring every year.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think what the passion for pro-paganda will bring some girls to!I, of course, threw it all on my destiny, posed as hungering and thirsting for light, and finally resorted to the most powerful weapon in the subjec-tion of the female heart, a weapon which never fails one.
-- I don't know how you feel about female faces, but to my mind these sixteen years, these childish eyes, shyness and tears of bashfulness are better than beauty; and she is a perfect little picture, too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What was my amazement to find,of all people upon earth, my aunt there, and Mr. Dick!My auntsitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, andher cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.
-- 'Do you meanthat you are jealous of a female person?'
-- We can't be happy together forfive minutes in the evening, but some intrusive female knocks atthe door, and says, 'Oh, if you please, Miss Dora, would you stepupstairs?'
-- We were not far from Blackfriars Bridge, when he turned his headand pointed to a solitary female figure flitting along the oppositeside of the street.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so conve-nient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the ap-proaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.
-- She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judg-ment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.
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