peasant是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (不用于英国或美国) 小农； 佃农； 农民，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty.
-- Lovely girls; bright wom-en, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cel-lars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the streets to slake her devouring thirst.
-- 461 'On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy a boy of not more than seventeen at the most.
-- 'I always observed that their pride bitterly resented the younger brother's (as I call him) having crossed swords with a peasant, and that peasant a boy.
-- I smite this bosom with these two hands as I smite it now, and I tell him, 'Defarge, I was brought up among the fishermen of the sea-shore, and that peasant family so injured by the two Evremonde broth-ers, as that Bastille paper describes, is my family.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The peasant women too tell us they have seen goblins."
-- A smart guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
-- And with the inability to express himself, the incoherence that Konstantin knew so well, he began, with another look round at everyone, to tell his brother Kritsky's story: how he had been expelled from the university for starting a benefit society for the poor students and Sunday schools; and how he had afterwards been a teacher in a peasant school, and how he had been driven out of that too, and had afterwards been condemned for something.
-- For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again.... That peasant with the long waist seemed to be gnawing something on the wall, the old lady began stretching her legs the whole length of the carriage, and filling it with a black cloud; then there was a fearful shrieking and banging, as though someone were being torn to pieces; then there was a blinding dazzle of red fire before her eyes and a wall seemed to rise up and hide everything.
-- There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was no longer the embarrassed cub doctor but the wise and heroic physician who had won the Race with Death, and in the Peasant eyes of Mrs. Novak, in Henry's nervous obedience, he read his power.
-- Hither that peasant beau, Gaston Lopo, brought Madame de Merlemont, and dwelt in fashionableness till the slaves whom he had often relished to lash came on him shaving, and straightway the lather was fantastically smeared with blood.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And a heavy shower of rain came on, too, and Dounia, in-sulted and put to shame, had to drive with a peasant in an open cart all the seventeen versts into town.
-- A peculiar circumstance attract-ed his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on, there were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands, and riff-raff of all sorts, all singing and all more or less drunk.
-- shouted one of them, a young thick-necked peasant with a fleshy face red as a carrot.
-- Turning in at the gateway, he saw on the right a flight of stairs which a peasant was mounting with a book in his hand.
-- A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop fac-ing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes.
-- The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
-- The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses.
-- Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: 'Good jams, cheap!Good jams, cheap!'
-- 156 Grimms' Fairy Tales THE LITTLE PEASANT here was a certain village wherein no one lived but re-Tally rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant.
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