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：
-- Its death will save the creature many a sore back and weary foot!'
-- 'Give him, in pity, give him the contents of another ri-fle,' cried Duncan, turning away his eyes in horror from the spectacle of a fellow creature in such awful jeopardy.
-- 'Tis some creature of the forest prowling around us in quest of food,' he said, in a whisper, as soon as the low, and apparently distant sounds, which had startled the Mohi-cans, reached his own ears.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not the ravishing creature that his love-sick fancy saw, but she had a grave comeliness.
-- And you find some woman, coarse and low and vulgar, some beastly creature in whom all the horror of sex is blatant, and you fall upon her like a wild animal.
-- He slept very quietly, without a movement, so that he might have been dead, and he was like some wild creature of the woods, resting after a long chase; and she wondered what fancies passed through his dreams.
-- I tried to imagine what had happened to drive the poor creature to that dreadful step.
-- When his wife, a tall, lovely creature in cloth of gold, had left us, I remarked laughingly on the change in his present circumstances from those when we had both been medical students.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then, a stone cleverly thrown by the boy, struck the creature on the wing, but the blow did not disable it, and the jacamar ran off and disappeared in an instant.
-- Not a living creature was to be seen.
-- On returning to the surface, in the half light, he felt a living creature struggling near him.
-- But, perhaps, he was wrong not to follow the watercourse, as he and Herbert had done on their first excursion, for after walking an hour not a creature had shown itself.
-- Happily the creature did not attack them, or they might not have escaped without a severe wound.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.
-- She put her hand in mine as confidingly as if she had known me from her cradle, and we trudged away together; the little creature accommodating her pace to mine, and rather seeming to lead and take care of me than I to be protecting her.
-- There was something in the manner of this reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an involuntary expression of surprise; for I wondered what kind of errand it might be that occasioned her to be prepared for questioning.
-- Do you not think that what I have seen of you and this little creature to-night must have an interest not wholly free from pain?'
-- The creature appeared quite horrible with his monstrous head and little body, as he rubbed his hands slowly round, and round, and round again with something fantastic even in his manner of performing this slight action and, dropping his shaggy brows and cocking his chin in the air, glanced upward with a stealthy look of exultation that an imp might have copied and appropriated to himself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy was now being tried as a dangerous creature from whom it was necessary to protect society.
-- "As dangerous a creature as the prisoner of yesterday," Nekhludoff thought while watc hing the proceedings.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
-- At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention and repeated a name.
-- Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world.
-- For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.
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