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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is extraordinary how credulous the peasants are about here!Any number of them are ready to swear that they have seen such a creature upon the moor.'
-- To my dismay the creature flew straight for the great mire, and my acquaintance never paused for an instant, bounding from tuft to tuft behind it, his green net waving in the air.
-- In that impassive, colourless man, with his straw hat and his but-terfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a mur-derous heart.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I thought some creature like you would hang on to me as soon as I got hold of my money. '
-- 'It was not a matter of LOVE at all!If only you knew what a miserable creature she was, you would have pitied her, just as I did.
-- 'Surely there must be someone among all of you here who will turn this shameless creature out of the room?'
-- 'Do you wish me to beg pardon of this creature because she has come here to insult our mother and disgrace the whole household, you low, base wretch?'
-- Well, gentlemen, I suppose I must set a good example!What vex-es me much is that I am such an insignificant creature that it matters nothing to anybody whether I have done bad ac-tions or not!Besides, which am I to choose?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is no viler creature come before Troy with the sons of Atreus.
-- Diana herself had taught him how to kill every kind of wild creature that is bred in mountain forests, but nei-ther she nor his famed skill in archery could now save him, for the spear of Menelaus struck him in the back as he was flying; it struck him between the shoulders and went right through his chest, so that he fell headlong and his armour rang rattling round him.
-- We other gods must all do as you bid us, but her you neither scold nor punish; you encourage her because the pestilent creature is your daughter.
-- Thereon the archer goddess in her displeasure sent a prodigious creature against him a savage wild boar with great white tusks that did much harm to his orchard lands, uprooting apple-trees in full bloom and throwing them to the ground.
-- Antilochus, brave soldier though he was, would not stay to face him, but fled like some savage creature which knows it has done wrong, and flies, when it has killed a dog or a man who is herding his cattle, before a body of men can be gathered to attack it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the most part the fibres of a living creature are no more opaque than water."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The apparition of this grotesque, half-bestial creature had suddenly populated the stillness of the afternoon for me.
-- I stopped abruptly, hop-ing the creature did not see me.
-- I saw that it was the simian creature who had met the launch upon the beach.
-- I did not feel the same repugnance towards this creature which I had experienced in my encounters with the other Beast Men.
-- The creature was little better than an idiot.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
-- Mother Wolf told him once or twice that Shere Khan was not a creature to be trusted, and that some day he must kill Shere Khan.
-- By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the jungle will call fire by its proper name.
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：
-- 'No, no,' returned the scout, in decided disapprobation of this opinion, 'I rubbed the bark off a limb, perhaps, but the creature leaped the longer for it.
-- 'Now Major Heyward speaks as Major Heyward should,' said Cora; 'who that looks at this creature of nature, re-members the shade of his skin?'
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