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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was esteemed and even loved by people of consequence in society, whose example in receiving her was therefore followed by others.
-- Al-though you don't know his name you make a mockery of his form, following the example of Voltaire.
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：
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
-- I never abid in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
-- Cora set the example of compliance, with a steadiness that taught the more timid Alice the necessity of obedience.
-- After a last look at Uncas, Cora turne,d and with a quivering lip, addressed herself to Heyward: 'I have heard of your boasted skill in the water, too, Dun-can,' she said; 'follow, then, the wise example set you by these simple and faithful beings.'
-- His example was followed by others, who, as they drew the branches from the cave of the scout, threw them into one pile, adding, un-consciously, to the security of those they sought.
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：
-- Fortunately, there is no need for me to risk the adventure, since my friend, Mr. Edward Leggatt, an able writer as well as an admirable painter, has exhaustively discussed Charles Strickland's work in a little book芒聭麓 which is a charming example of a style, for the most part, less happily cultivated in England than in France.
-- His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the auto da fe of an heretic when with some forgotten story he can confound the filial piety of the Rev.
-- I suppose it was a very pretty example of the triumph of spirit over matter, and so my digression has at least the advantage of a moral.
-- She looked upon venery as the natural occupation for men and women, and was ever ready with precept and example from her own wide experience.
-- It would have been passed in an exhibition of the Post-Impressionists by a careless person as an excellent but not very remarkable example of the school; but perhaps afterwards it would come back to his recollection, and he would wonder why.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No labor came amiss to Cyrus Harding, who thus set an example to his intelligent and zealous companions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- His presence and example diffused such alacrity among the persons employed, that, in a few hours, the house was emptied of everything, but pieces of matting, empty porter-pots, and scattered fragments of straw.
-- 'But I would have you know, Miss Edwards,' resumed the governess in a tone of increased severity, 'that you cannot be permitted if it be only for the sake of preserving a proper example and decorum in this establishment that you cannot be permitted, and that you shall not be permitted, to fly in the face of your superiors in this exceedingly gross manner.
-- 'And this,' cried Sampson, clasping his hands, 'is the world that turns upon its own axis, and has Lunar influences, and revolutions round Heavenly Bodies, and various games of that sort!This is human natur, is it!Oh natur, natur!This is the miscreant that I was going to benefit with all my little arts, and that, even now, I feel so much for, as to wish to let him go!But,' added Mr Brass with greater fortitude, 'I am myself a lawyer, and bound to set an example in carrying the laws of my happy country into effect.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only the clerk, infected by the example set by the colonel, thought of telling a story of his own.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Long John was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself in good advice, and as for example no man could have shown a better.
-- Or rather, I suppose the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by the example of the ringleaders only some more, some less; and a few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be led nor driven any further.
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 let them have it as an example of the eternal triangle, the trinity of hate.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The master's bad ways and bad companions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff.
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