virgin是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 处女a. 处女的； 纯洁的； 原始的； 未使用的，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：
-- This was neither like the densely-packed woods choked up with brambles, nor the virgin forest barricaded with the trunks of fallen trees, and overgrown with inextricable tangles of creepers, where only iron and fire could open up a track.
-- But this little isle—""No, madam, it is a rock only fit at most to support a few settlers; while what we need is a vast country, whose virgin soil abounds in untouched stores of wealth," replied the captain.
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：
-- At the next corner hung a votive lamp before a Madonna, but the light it gave was little better than none at all; indeed, he did not observe it before he was ex-actly under it, and his eyes fell upon the bright colors of the pictures which represented the well-known group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus.
-- There was gold, pure virgin gold in that blessed kiss.
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：
-- Then, with another transition in voice and subject, allu-sions were made to the virgin who wept in the adjacent lodge.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The letter from Dr. Stokes was not his only intimation that plague was striding through St. Hubert, that tomorrow it might be leaping to Barbados, to the Virgin Islands .
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：
-- A vestal virgin might be seduced by flattery.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Madam,' replied Mr. Micawber, 'it ismy intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of thefuture.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this Ladies' Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
-- Is it the Virgin of Bevis?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts; she brushed hers with her hand, as if Gabriel had been irritating its pink surface by actual touch, and the free air of her previous movements was reduced at the same time to a chastened phase of itself.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a littlesinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: "Be careful!Becareful!We had you once.
-- When Scarlett was a child, she had confused her mother with the Virgin Mary, and now that she was older she saw noreason for changing her opinion.
-- The Litany of the Virgin was beginning, and obediently Scarlettresponded: "Pray for us," as Ellen praised in soft contralto the attributes of the Mother of God.
-- The young ladies of thetown, who were not permitted to nurse for fear they would see sights unfit for virgin eyes, had the convalescent wardsin their charge.
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：
-- He had been virgin when he married: and the sex part did not mean much to him.
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：
-- The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
-- I was very young, and perhaps she liked the idea of guiding my virgin steps on the hard road of letters; while for me it was pleasant to have someone I could go to with my small troubles, certain of an attentive ear and reasonable counsel.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
-- For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
-- A row!arrah a row!The Virgin be blessed, a row!Plunge in with ye!
-- The Virgin crowding all sail, made after her four young keels, and thus they all disappeared far to leeward, still in bold, hopeful chase.
-- Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a letter of my partner's, congratulating mevery affectionately upon my being alive, giving me an ac-count how the estate was improved, and what it produced a year; with the particulars of the number of squares, or acres that it contained, how planted, how many slaves there were upon it: and making two- and-twenty crosses for blessings, told me he had said so many AVE MARIAS to thank the Blessed Virgin that I was alive; inviting me very passion-ately to come over and take possession of my own, and in the meantime to give him orders to whom he should de-liver my effects if I did not come myself; concluding with a hearty tender of his friendship, and that of his family; and sent me as a present seven fine leopards' skins, which he had, it seems, received from Africa, by some other ship that he had sent thither, and which, it seems, had made a better voyage than I.
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