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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But then the fun would be trying to find the creature that had got my old name!That's just like the advertisements, you know, when people lose dogs "answers to the name of 'Dash:' had on a brass collar" just fancy calling everything you met "Alice," till one of them answered!Only they wouldn't answer at all, if they were wise.'
-- There ought to be one marked "Queen," you know 'Just then the door opened a little way, and a creature with a long beak put its head out for a moment and said 'No admittance till the week after next!'
-- 'As for you,' she repeated, catching hold of the little creature in the very act of jumping over a bottle which had just lighted upon the table, 'I'll shake you into a kitten, that I will!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body.
-- I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.
-- They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the Hispaniola belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high the most transparent calumnies.
-- Silver himself appeared less terrible in contrast with this creature of the woods, and I turned on my heel, and looking sharply behind me over my shoulder, began to retrace my steps in the direction of the boats.
-- From trunk to trunk the creature flitted like a deer, running manlike on two legs, but unlike any man that I had ever seen, stooping almost double as it ran.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed.
-- But this extraordinary creature could transport itself from one place to another with surprising velocity; as, in an interval of three days, the Governor Higginson and the Columbus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues.
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- He fired; I heard a slight hissing, and a creature fell stunned at some distance from us.
-- The creature fell stunned, and the force of its fall brought it within the reach of dexterous hunter's grasp.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then immediately the shadow came back, a sullen, eagle look was on her face, she glanced from under her brows like a sinister creature at bay, hating them all.
-- "He is not a man, he is a chameleon, a creature of change."
-- He rode well and softly, pleased with the delicate quivering of the creature between his knees.
-- "It really thinks the night has come!How absurd!Really, how can one have any respect for a creature that is so easily taken in!"
-- I do think there is something wrong, when we look on every living creature as if it were ourselves.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!'
-- I see no reason that he should not know, as well as you,' I returned; 'and if you are his choice, he'll be the most unfortunate creature that ever was born!As soon as you become Mrs. Linton, he lo ses friend, and love, and all!Have you considered how you'll bear the separation, and how he'll bear to be quite deserted in the world?
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