universe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 宇宙， 万物，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with am-brosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the howling universe of passion and contention that seemed to encompass this grim old officer conspicuous in his grey coat and red decoration, there was but one quite steady figure, and that was a woman's.
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：
-- They considered the moon alone to be inhabited: they imagined it was the real heart of the universe or planetary system, on which the genuine Cos-mopolites, or citizens of the world, dwelt.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.
-- It was as though he found in the chaos of the universe a new pattern, and were attempting clumsily, with anguish of soul, to set it down.
-- It was as though he had become aware of the soul of the universe and were compelled to express it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and,shrugging, turned to his music and books and his better world.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it's curious how much room there seems, a whole universe under there; and as cold as hell, you're as helpless as if your head was cut off."
-- As well get excited because a central hub drives a hundred outer wheels or because the whole universe wheels round the sun.
-- He found his eternal and his infinite in the pure machine-principle of perfect co-ordination into one pure, complex, infinitely repeated motion, like the spinning of a wheel; but a productive spinning, as the revolving of the universe may be called a productive spinning, a productive repetition through eternity, to infinity.
-- Rupert is quite right, human beings are boring, painting the universe with their own image.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if an astronomical observatory should be made without any windows, and the astronomer within should arrange the starry universe solely by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming myriads of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
-- In gauging fathomless deeps with his little mean excise-rod, and in staggering over the universe with his rusty stiff-legged compasses, he had meant to do great things.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You are quite right," said the Professor, laughing; "it sounds very alarming, the weight being heavy--but the vault which supports this vast mass of earth and rock is solid and safe; the mighty Architect of the Universe has constructed it of solid materials.
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：
-- Ah, here it is! ''The universe shows us two aspects: on one side it is physically wasting, on the other it is spiritually ascending.'''
-- But she only said: 'What silly hocus-pocus!As if his little conceited con-sciousness could know what was happening as slowly as all that!It only means HE'S a physical failure on the earth, so he wants to make the whole universe a physical failure.
-- 'Still, I think there is something in the idea that the universe is physically wast-ing and spiritually ascending.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
-- Alas!The host called all the universe to witness that Monseigneur was the most amiable of the whole body of nobility, the most important, the most estimable, the most honoured.
-- Bar was a sight wondrous to behold, and full of matter, when, jauntily waving his double eye-glass by its ribbon, and jauntily drooping to an Universe of Jurymen, he, in the most accidental manner ever seen, found himself at Mr Merdle's shoulder, and embraced that opportunity of mentioning a little point to him, on which he particularly wished to be guided by the light of his practical knowledge.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
-- With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time."
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
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