livelihood是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 生活，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made a livelihood by letting out mules to travelers, and leading them over the difficult passes of the Cordilleras, after which he gave them in charge of a BAQUEANO, or Argentine guide, to whom the route through the Pampas was perfectly familiar.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ryabinin's children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!"
-- (Many people gained their livelihood by the Board of Irrigation, especially one highly conscientious and musical family: all the daughters played on stringed instruments, and Alexey Alexandrovitch knew the family and had stood godfather to one of the elder daughters.)
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：
-- Razumihin, in his youthful ardour, had firmly resolved to lay the foundations at least of a secure livelihood during the next three or four years, and saving up a certain sum, to emigrate to Siberia, a country rich in every natural resource and in need of work-ers, active men and capital.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is stillprobable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood bypersonal contortion, while Mrs. Micawber abets their unnaturalfeats by playing the barrel-organ.'
-- I came down again to my dinner; and even the 758slow comfort of the meal, and the orderly silence of the place-which was bare of guests, the Long Vacation not yet being over-were eloquent on the audacity of Traddles, and his small hopes ofa livelihood for twenty years to come.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- you would not earn a very good livelihood as a working sil-versmith at this rate.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some were undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, whoring, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forg-ery, coining false money, for committing rapes, or sodomy; for flying from their colours, or deserting to the enemy; and most of them had broken prison; none of these durst re-turn to their native countries, for fear of being hanged, or of starving in a jail; and therefore they were under the neces-sity of seeking a livelihood in other places.'
-- I was going on to tell him of another sort of people, who get their livelihood by attending the sick, having, upon 321some occasions, informed his honour that many of my crew had died of diseases.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He noted the claims of the striking motormen and conductors, who said that they had been wont to receive two dollars a day in times past, but that for a year or more "trippers" had been introduced, which cut down their chance of livelihood one-half, and increased their hours of servitude from ten to twelve, and even fourteen.
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