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：
-- She, poor young thing, was just a young female creature to him; but a young female creature whom he had gone into and whom he desired again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The name of Beadle being out of the question, and the originator of the Institution for these poor foundlings having been a blessed creature of the name of Coram, we gave that name to Pet's little maid.
-- I love them dearly; no people could ever be kinder to a thankless creature than they always are to me.
-- At what period of her early life the little creature began to perceive that it was not the habit of all the world to live locked up in narrow yards surrounded by high walls with spikes at the top, would be a difficult question to settle.
-- But she was a very, very little creature indeed, when she had somehow gained the knowledge that her clasp of her father's hand was to be always loosened at the door which the great key opened; and that while her own light steps were free to pass beyond it, his feet must never cross that line.
-- Nevertheless, the brave little creature did so fix her heart on her brother's rescue, that while he was ringing out these doleful changes, she pinched and scraped enough together to ship him for Canada.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not aninvalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she had been, yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, and busy with the quiet duties she loved, everyone's friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who loved her most had learned to know it.
-- 'What a haughty, uninteresting creature that oldest Miss March is!'
-- See if the Lambs don't say, 'What a lively, nice creature that Jo March is!'
-- She slept on a couch in the room, waking often to renew the fire, to feed, lift, or wait upon the patient creature who seldom asked for anything, and 'tried not to be a trouble'.
-- 'You don't really think I am such a mercenary creature as I tried to be once, do you?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition stage neither caterpillar nor butterfly.
-- It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
-- By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.
-- He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe; the most formidable of all whales to encounter; the most majestic in aspect; and lastly, by far the most valuable in commerce; he being the only creature from which that valuable substance, spermaceti, is obtained.
-- Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland or Right Whale.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Charlotte, 'what a rum creature you are!Why don't you let the boy alone?'
-- As the wretched creature mumbled and chuckled in her hideous merriment, the undertaker turned to go away.
-- A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him.
-- Mr. Brownlow smiled; and, turning to Oliver, said that Mr. Grimwig was an old friend of his, and he must not mind his being a little rough in his manners; for he was a worthy creature at bottom, as he had reason to know.
-- said the worthy matron, setting it down very hastily on the hob; 'a little stupid thing, that only holds a couple of cups!What use is it of, to anybody!Except,' said Mrs. Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh!She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable.
-- Everybody said how well she looked; and Mr. Bingley thought her quite beautiful, and danced with her twice!Only think of THAT, my dear; he actually danced with her twice!and she was the only creature in the room that he asked a second time.
-- 'You are a very strange creature by way of a friend! al-ways wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody!If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hear-ing the very best performers.'
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