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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The enormous creature was fast approaching, sometimes hovering for awhile with outspread wings, and sometimes falling with the swiftness of inert bodies in space.
-- This splendid creature was called "Thaouka," a word in Patagonia which means bird, and he well deserved the name.
-- Thalcave positively talked to the beast, and Thaouka understood perfectly, though unable to reply, for, after a great deal of arguing, the noble creature yielded, though he still champed the bit.
-- They owed the faithful creature too much to disobey him, and set off immediately.
-- This winged creature was five feet high, and his wide, conical, extremely pointed beak, measured eighteen inches in length.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him, and on more than one occasion he has asked me whether I had on my medical journeys at night ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound.
-- 'I find that before the terrible event occurred several peo-ple had seen a creature upon the moor which corresponds with this Baskerville demon, and which could not possi-bly be any animal known to science.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Bennet was the only creature who could suppose there might be any extenuating circumstances in the case, unknown to the society of Hertfordshire; her mild and steady candour always pleaded for allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes but by everybody else Mr. Dar-cy was condemned as the worst of men.
-- Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiv-ing a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had no sooner said so, but I perceived the creature (whatever it was) within two oars' length, which something surprised me; however, I immedi-ately stepped to the cabin door, and taking up my gun, fired at him; upon which he immediately turned about and swam towards the shore again.
-- I thought he was pursued by some savage, or frighted with some wild beast, and I ran forward towards him to help him; but when I came nearer to him I saw something hang-ing over his shoulders, which was a creature that he had shot, like a hare, but different in colour, and longer legs; however, we were very glad of it, and it was very good meat; but the great joy that poor Xury came with, was to tell me he had found good water and seen no wild mans.
-- But we found afterwards that we need not take such pains for water, for a little higher up the creek where we were we found the water fresh when the tide was out, which flowed but a little way up; so we filled our jars, and feasted on the hare he had killed, and prepared to go on our way, having seen no footsteps of any human creature in that part of the country.
-- This was game indeed to us, but this was no food; and I was very sorry to lose three charges of powder and shot upon a creature that was good for nothing to us.
-- It is impossible to express the astonishment of these poor creatures at the noise and fire of my gun: some of them were even ready to die for fear, and fell down as dead with the very terror; but when they saw the creature dead, and sunk in the water, and that I made signs to them to come to the shore, they took heart and came, and began to search for the creature.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him, than I am with any other creature in the world, except yourself and mama.
-- But unfortunately in bestowing these embraces, a pin in her ladyship's head dress slightly scratching the child's neck, produced from this pattern of gentleness such violent screams, as could hardly be outdone by any creature professedly noisy.
-- Besides in the present case, I really thought some explanation was due to you after my making such particular inquiries about Edward's mother; and I am so unfortunate, that I have not a creature whose advice I can ask.
-- I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty.
-- Beyond you three, is there a creature in the world whom I would not rather suspect of evil than Willoughby, whose heart I know so well?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a brotherly sort of creature in his demeanour.
-- He was the creature of an inborn desire.
-- He is even as a wisp in the wind, moved by every breath of passion, acting now by his will and now by his instincts, erring with one, only to retrieve by the other, falling by one, only to rise by the other--a creature of incalculable variability.
-- He saw at once that a mistake had been made, that some difficult conditions had pushed this troubled creature into his presence, and his interest was enlisted.
-- He was a helpless creature in sickness, not very handsome in a dull-coloured bath gown and his hair uncombed.
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