creature是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 人， 动物； 生物，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I think I had someglimpses of the real character of this conversation at the time; but Iam sure, now, that the good creature originated it, and took herpart in it, merely that my mother might comfort herself with thelittle contradictory summary in which she had indulged.
-- The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy;the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been,hushed for ever on her bosom.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of recon-ciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.
-- She was a beautiful creature when she came to you, but, in my opinion, the at-tractions you have added are infinitely superior to what she received from nature.'
-- Chapter XIIIThere could hardly be a happier creature in the world than Mrs. John Knightley, in this short visit to Hartfield, going about every morning among her old acquaintance with her five children, and talking over what she had done every evening with her father and sister.
-- Mr. Weston was a great favourite, and there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke with such unreserve, as to his wife; not any one, to whom she related with such conviction of being listened to and un-derstood, of being always interesting and always intelligible, the little affairs, arrangements, perplexities, and pleasures of her father and herself.
-- Her tears fell abundantly but her grief was so truly art-less, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes and she listened to her and tried to con-sole her with all her heart and understanding really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelli-gence could do.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After placing the little creature with its mother, he stood and carefully examined the sky, to ascertain the time of night from the altitudes of the stars.
-- Thus a mild sort of apotheosis took place in his fancy, whilst she still lived and breathed within his own horizon, a troubled creature like himself.
-- The clean, sleek creature arose from its fleece how perfectly like Aphrodite rising from the foam should have been seen to be realized looking startled and shy at the loss of its garment, which lay on the floor in one soft cloud, united throughout, the portion visible being the inner surface only, which, never before exposed, was white as snow, and without flaw or blemish of the minutest kind.
-- Oak took it up, thinking it might be better to kill the creature to save it from pain; but finding it uninjured, he placed it again among the grass.
-- Why, Bathsheba, you have lost all the pluck and sauciness you formerly had, and upon my life if I had known what a chicken-hearted creature you were under all your boldness, I'd never have I know what."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Quite true; I would much rather be the little careless bird than a king," said Poiret the ditto-ist, "because----" "In fact"--the law-student cut him short--"I danced with one of the handsomest women in the room, a charming countess, the most exquisite creature I have ever seen.
-- She must have enjoyed herself, if ever creature did!It is a true saying that there is no more beautiful sight than a frigate in full sail, a galloping horse, or a woman dancing."
-- "The daughter of a vermicelli manufacturer," the Duchess added; "and when the little creature went to Court, the daughter of a pastry-cook was presented on the same day.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so at-tractive and amiable.
-- How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief?
-- I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
-- When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
-- It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you, obstinate creature that you are, are still refusing to sell us your finebeasts."
-- He had always yearned to be loved by some beautiful,dashing creature full of fire and mischief.
-- Would this creature never go away?
-- So Rhett consorted with that vile Watling creature and gave her money.
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