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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when you mentioned Mrs. Dixon, I felt how much more proba-ble that it should be the tribute of warm female friendship.
-- Oh!the blessing of a female correspondent, when one is really interested in the absent! she will tell me every thing.
-- Dear Harriet! I would not change you for the clearest-headed, longest-sighted, best-judging female breathing.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oak, his features smudged, grimy, and undiscoverable from the smoke and heat, his smock-frock burnt into holes and dripping with water, the ash stem of his sheep-crook charred six inches shorter, advanced with the humility stern adversity had thrust upon him up to the slight female form in the saddle.
-- "She had, I think, a bundle, though I couldn't see very well," said a female voice from another window, which seemed that of Maryann.
-- Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.
-- In the open ground before him, as he looked over the ridge of the rick, was a dark and apparently female form.
-- All the female guests were huddled aghast against the walls like sheep in a storm, and the men were bewildered as to what to do.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
-- He contin-ued, 'You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my be-ing.
-- Turning to him, therefore, I said, 'I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile.'
-- I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
-- They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhor-rence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a fine joke, and Scarlett, who had notwillingly opened a book since leaving the Fayetteville Female Academy the year before, thought it just as amusing asthey did.
-- Despite a succession of governesses and two years at the near-byFayetteville Female Academy, her education was sketchy, but no girl in the County danced more gracefully than she.
-- "Sure, because she didn't have a second day," Gerald explained and bawled with laughter before recalling thatperhaps such remarks were not fit for female ears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle struck in upon that; as one who knew all about relationships, having professional occasion to bear in mind what female relations a man might not marry; and expounded the ties between me and Joe.
-- Chapter XVAs I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's room, my education under that preposterous female terminated.
-- I inferred from the methodical nature of Miss Skiffins's arrangements that she made tea there every Sunday night; and I rather suspected that a classic brooch she wore, representing the profile of an undesirable female with a very straight nose and a very new moon, was a piece of portable property that had been given her by Wemmick.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- Yet, so far have you been from answering my ex-pectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of de-grading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by or-derly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
-- I said, 'my birth was of honest parents, in an island called England; which was remote from his country, as many days' journey as the strongest of his honour's servants could trav-el in the annual course of the sun; that I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, got-ten by accident or violence; that my country was governed by a female man, whom we called queen; that I left it to get riches, whereby I might maintain myself and family, when I should return; that, in my last voyage, I was commander of the ship, and had about fifty Yahoos under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply them by oth-ers picked out from several nations; that our ship was twice in danger of being sunk, the first time by a great storm, and the second by striking against a rock.'
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