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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last he began to despair of success, and began sorrowfully to retrace his steps back to his father's palace, when one day he heard an honest peasant singing so merrily as he drove the plow, that he thought, ‘Surely this man is happy, if there is such a thing as happiness on earth.'
-- The Irish peasant became a landed proprietor, and though his little estate had only been under cultivation for two years, he had five hundred acres cleared by his own hands, and five hundred head of cattle.
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 was a cunning device, for, apart from the chance of driving your victim to his death, what peasant would ven-ture to inquire too closely into such a creature should he get sight of it, as many have done, upon the moor?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day, when he had rid-den over to the town to see a creditor, the chief peasant of his village followed him shortly after, with the news that his house had been burnt down, and that his wife had perished with it, but his children were safe.
-- Then I told the whole three years' story of my life, and the history of a poor peasant girl ' 'Oh, damn the peasant girl!go on, go on!'
-- 'An old peasant woman opened the door; she was busy lighting the 'samovar' in a tiny kitchen.
-- Kostia was too shy to come in, because he was carrying a hatchet; they had bought the hedgehog and the hatchet from a peasant whom they had met on the road.
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：
-- They must look queer in their garish frames on the walls of the peasant house.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The soldier, a Nijhni peasant with a red and pock-marked face, placed the paper into the cuff of his coat sleeve, and, smiling, winked to his muscular comrade.
-- One was a retired officer in uniform; others were in short coats, and but one in peasant garb.
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- he said, with smiling eyes and, nearing Nekhludoff, spread around him a peculiar, pleasant, peasant odor, and, tickling him with his curly beard, three times kissed him on the lips.
-- While Nekhludoff was thus exchanging the customary kisses with the peasant and taking from him a dark-brown egg, he noticed the chatoyant dress of Matriena Pavlovna and the lovely head with the red bow.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow-herd in and said: 'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.'
-- But the little peasant stood at his door, and waited for his little calf, and when the cow-herd drove the cows through the 157village, and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was.
-- But the little peasant said: 'Oh, but I must have my beast back again.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child carried in a sling by the laden peasant woman toiling home, was quieted with picked-up grapes; the idiot sunning his big goitre under the leaves of the wooden chalet by the way to the Waterfall, sat munching grapes; the breath of the cows and goats was redolent of leaves and stalks of grapes; the company in every little cabaret were eating, drinking, talking grapes.
-- Other mules had arrived not long before, some with peasant riders and some with goods, and had trodden the snow about the door into a pool of mud.
-- A strong cheerful peasant woman, all stocking, petticoat, white cap, and ear-ring, stood here in a dark doorway, and said with a pleasant show of teeth, 'Ice-say!Seer!Who?'
-- 'Enter then and ascend, if you please,' returned the peasant woman, in French likewise.
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