example是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 例子， 实例； 模范， 榜样，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His ex-cellency observed my countenance to clear up; he told me, with a sigh, 'that there his estate began, and would continue the same, till we should come to his house: that his country-men ridiculed and despised him, for managing his affairs no better, and for setting so ill an example to the kingdom; which, however, was followed by very few, such as were old, and wilful, and weak like himself.'
-- Only in this island of Luggnagg the appetite for living was not so eager, from the continual example of the struldbrugs before their eyes.
-- I had not yet been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and venera-tion for the inhabitants, that I entered on a firm resolution never to return to humankind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms, in the contem-plation and practice of every virtue, where I could have no example or incitement to vice.
-- Whereas a traveller's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good, example of what they deliver concerning for-374 Gulliver's Travelseign places.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While, from Mr. Gradgrind, he heard in his much lower tone the words, 'But even as an example to Louisa, of what this pursuit which has been the subject of a vulgar curiosity, leads to and ends in.
-- 'They would do well,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, 'to take example by you, Bitzer.'
-- She was so constrained, and yet so careless; so reserved, and yet so watchful; so cold and proud, and yet so sensitively ashamed of her husband's braggart humility from which she shrunk as if every example of it were a cut or a blow; that it was quite a new sensation to observe her.
-- 'We will make an example of half a dozen Slackbridges.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking example by the guide, I gave way to a kind of painful somnolency, during which I seemed both to hear and feel continued heavings and shudderings in the mountain.
-- My uncle would simply have quoted the example of Saknussemm.
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：
-- As a matter of fact, for an example of impertinence he'd be hard to beat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ever known it to set an example of any useful kind?'
-- Being conversational, and in a reasonable flow of spirits, he then invited her attention to his coat as it hung behind the door: remarking that the Father of the place would set an indifferent example to his children, already disposed to be slovenly, if he went among them out at elbows.
-- put this case to his good friend:Whether it had occurred to his good friend, that Society might not unreasonably hope that one so blest in his undertakings, and whose example on his pedestal was so influential with it, would shed a little money in the direction of a mission or so to Africa?
-- To these he responded with the greatest liberality, and with no lack of formality; always first writing to appoint a time at which the applicant might wait upon him in his room, and then receiving him in the midst of a vast accumulation of documents, and accompanying his donation (for he said in every such case, 'it is a donation, not a loan') with a great deal of good counsel: to the effect that he, the expiring Father of the Marshalsea, hoped to be long remembered, as an example that a man might preserve his own and the general respect even there.
-- 'Madam,' pursued Mr Dorrit, 'of my daughter Fanny, under her present guidance and with such an example constantly before her '(Mrs General shut her eyes.)
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This dauntless example fired Zara.
-- I am a stupid thing, and ought to be studying, not playing,' was Beth's resolution, while Amy followed their example by heroically declaring, 'I shall learn to make buttonholes, and attend to my parts of speech.'
-- 'I follow the good example my neighbors set me,' was Laurie's answer, as he swung himself out of the room.
-- cried Laurie, promenading down the path with Amy, with such infectious spirit and skill that everyone else followed their example without a murmur.
-- At Vevay, Laurie was never idle, but always walking, riding, boating, or studying in the most energetic manner, while Amy admired everything he did and followed his example as far and as fast as she could.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is certainly a curious example of the Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature.
-- Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
-- But however prolonged and exhausting the chase, the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the uttermost; indeed, he is expected to set an example of superhuman activity to the rest, not only by incredible rowing, but by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations; and what it is to keep shouting at the top of one's compass, while all the other muscles are strained and half started what that is none know but those who have tried it.
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