veteran是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 老手， 老兵，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two of the members of the board, the old veteran in the service, Nikitin, and the Kammerjunker Grinevitch, went in with him.
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：
-- The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the for-midable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
-- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste; though his sober linea-ments and anxious eye sufficiently betrayed that he had no very strong professional relish for the, as yet, untried and dreaded warfare of the wilderness.
-- Without assuming the supererogatory task of enter-ing into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the veteran in the approaching interview.
-- It seemed as if they had profited by the short truce, to devote an instant to the purest and best af-fection; the daughters forgetting their fears, and the veteran his cares, in the security of the moment.
-- Each drew a chair, and while the veteran communed a few moments with his own thoughts, appar-ently in sadness, the youth suppressed his impatience in a look and attitude of respectful attention.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Malter, we feel ye to be a wonderful veteran man, and nobody can gainsay it."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any military experience except a fewveterans of the Mexican and Seminole wars and, besides, the Troop would have scorned a veteran as a leader if theyhad not personally liked him and trusted him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These various changes, Mr. Sleary, very short of breath now, related with great heartiness, and with a wonderful kind of innocence, considering what a bleary and brandy-and-watery old veteran he was.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which she did with veteran ease.
-- Where his own hand had shrunk to, was not made manifest, but it was as remote from Mrs Sparkler's sense of touch as if he had been a highly meritorious Chelsea Veteran or Greenwich Pensioner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
-- Of all the wondrous devices and dexterities, the sleights of hand and countless subtleties, to which the veteran whaleman is so often forced, none exceed that fine man脜聯uvre with the lance called pitchpoling.
-- Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
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