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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides Prince S. and Evgenie Pavlovitch, we must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N. once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or in some narrow pathway, glancing with a transitory dar-ing into the eyes of some lithe, white-swathed female figure, I would suddenly see (with a spasmodic revulsion) that she had slit-like pupils, or glancing down note the curving nail with which she held her shapeless wrap about her.
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：
-- ' Burns eyward and his female companions witnessed this Hmysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above reproach, his rude equipments, blunt address, and strong antipathies, together with the character of his silent associates, were all causes for exciting distrust in minds that had been so recently alarmed by Indian treachery.
-- The Indian made no reply for near a minute, but bent his fierce looks on the countenance of Cora, in such wavering glances, that her eyes sank with shame, under an impression that for the first time they had encountered an expression that no chaste female might endure.
-- But, as the female crowd approached them, the gaudy colors of a shawl attracted the eyes of a wild and untutored Huron.
-- A speedy end was, however, put to every conjecture on the subject, by the manner of the chief, who advanced to the bedside of the invalid, and beck- oned away the whole group of female attendants that had clustered there to witness the skill of the stranger.
-- But when the last and humblest female of the tribe had joined in the wild and yet ordered array, the men of the Lenape contracted their circle, and formed again around the person of Uncas, as silent, as grave, and as mo-tionless as before.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being con-sidered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among these birds, which were about the size of a fowl, the female was uniformly brown, while the male was gorgeous in his red plumage, decorated with white spots.
-- They were a female peccary and her two young ones.
-- About this time the female onager gave birth to a young one which belonged to the same sex as its mother, and which throve capitally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, I remember the time when old Maunders as had three-and-twenty wans I remember the time when old Maunders had in his cottage in Spa Fields in the winter time, when the season was over, eight male and female dwarfs setting down to dinner every day, who was waited on by eight old giants in green coats, red smalls, blue cotton stockings, and high-lows: and there was one dwarf as had grown elderly and wicious who whenever his giant wasn't quick enough to please him, used to stick pins in his legs, not being able to reach up any higher.
-- But, Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms oftenest, God bless her, in female breasts and when the child, casting her tearful eyes upon the old man, remembered how weak he was, and how destitute and helpless he would be if she failed him, her heart swelled within her, and animated her with new strength and fortitude.
-- 'There she is,' said Quilp, stopping short at the door, and wrinkling up his eyebrows as he looked towards Miss Sally; 'there is the woman I ought to have married there is the beautiful Sarah there is the female who has all the charms of her sex and none of their weaknesses.
-- And the clerk of Brass's sister clerk to a female Dragon.
-- Let not the light scorners of female fascination erect their ears to listen to a new tale of love which shall serve them for a jest; for Miss Brass, however accurately formed to be beloved, was not of the loving kind.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here, too, people pressed against the nets--in the passage--city folks in divers dresses; behind the nets, female prisoners, some in white, others in their own dresses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, these are matters totally beneath a female who is acknowledged by universal admission to be far above the numerous little foibles and weaknesses of her sex.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agree-able manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
-- The prospect of the Netherfield ball was extremely agree-able to every female of the family.
-- And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had Mr. Collins not thus addressed her: 'When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on the subject, I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accus-ing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.'
-- For your sake,' turning to Charlotte, 'I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line.
-- To this Mary very gravely replied, 'Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures!They would doubt-less be congenial with the generality of female minds.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And yet this woman who knows what her art may have been? how long it may have been premeditated, and how deeply contrived by her! Who is she? Who can she be? Whom did I ever hear him talk of as young and attractive among his female acquaintance? Oh!no one, no one he talked to me only of myself."
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