shilling是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 先令，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old gentleman thought a shilling too much, but there was no shop in the street to get change at, so he gave it to the boy.
-- Sometimes they played out the toll across a bridge or ferry, and once exhibited by particular desire at a turnpike, where the collector, being drunk in his solitude, paid down a shilling to have it to himself.
-- Kit knew nothing about such questions, but he knew that his old home was a very poor place, and that his new one was very unlike it, and yet he was constantly looking back with grateful satisfaction and affectionate anxiety, and often indited square-folded letters to his mother, enclosing a shilling or eighteenpence or such other small remittance, which Mr Abel's liberality enabled him to make.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And another shilling or so in biscuits, and another in fruit, eh?'
-- I know thatif a shilling were given me by Mr. Quinion at any time, I spent it ina dinner or a tea.
-- After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter,gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and putaway his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.
-- I had also bestowed a shilling onthe Orfling, who was about to be disbanded.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poverty certainly has not contracted her mind: I really believe, if she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it; and no-body is afraid of her: that is a great charm.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so she's nailed up in parish boards after all, and nobody to pay the bell shilling and the grave half-crown."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'd give a shilling a line for a verbatim note," said the Editor.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a young man cut off without a shilling inearly youth, I've done very well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and Joe whispered to me, "I'd give a shilling if they had cut and run, Pip."
-- "I think I've got a bright new shilling somewhere in my pocket, and if I have, the boy shall have it."
-- said Mrs. Joe, throwing down the shilling and catching up the paper.
-- Then, he melted into parental tenderness, and gave them a shilling apiece and told them to go and play; and then as they went out, with one very strong effort to lift himself up by the hair he dismissed the hopeless subject.
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：
-- Oh thanks, a shilling will do to buy all the underclothes he wants."
-- The miners must pay for the cartage of their coals, heavy cartage too; they must pay for their tools, for the sharpening, for the care of lamps, for the many trifling things that made the bill of charges against every man mount up to a shilling or so in the week.
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：
-- And afterwards looked rather as if they had lost a shilling and found sixpence.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny opening her reticule, as they surveyed these things, produced from that repository a shilling and handed it to Uncle.
-- He then commissioned Maggy to return with his replies, and gave her the shilling of which the failure of her supplemental enterprise would have disappointed her otherwise.
-- If I was a shilling a week less useful in ten years' time, this impostor would give me a shilling a week less; if as useful a man could be got at sixpence cheaper, he would be taken in my place at sixpence cheaper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's a shilling for you.
-- Mr. Dawkins received these handsome compliments with much philosophy, and offe red to cut any gentleman in company, for the first picture-card, at a shilling at a time.
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