select是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 选择， 挑选a. 精选的， 选择的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accompanied by a select number of officers of the court, among whom were the two honest men who had already admired the cloth, he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working more diligently than ever; although they still did not pass a single thread through the looms.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vronsky intentionally avoided that select crowd of the upper world, which was moving and talking with discreet freedom before the pavilions.
-- These two ladies were the chief representatives of a select new Petersburg circle, nicknamed, in imitation of some imitation, les sept merveilles du monde.
-- I imagine that if Christ is brought down to the level of an historical character, it would have been better for Ivanov to select some other historical subject, fresh, untouched."
-- Sviazhsky comically imitated the tearful discourse of the marshal, and observed, addressing Nevyedovsky, that his excellency would have to select another more complicated method of auditing the accounts than tears.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are twelve thousand students; beside this prodigy Oxford is a tiny theological school and Harvard a select college for young gentlemen.
-- Round the walls ran select views of Pompeii, Venice, Lake Como, and Versailles.
-- Gosh, it's fierce I had to miss the select pleasures of an evening with Anxious Duer and associated highboys, and merely play a low game of poker--in which Father deftly removed the sum of six simolea, point ten, from the fore-gathered bums and yahoos.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are like actors: now he's one thing, now he's another; nowhe's something else, change and change about; but it's always avery pleasant profitable little affair of private theatricals, presentedto an uncommonly select audience.'
-- After a careful consideration of these, and anelaborate estimate of his resources, he had come to the conclusionto select that sum which represented the amount with compoundinterest to two years, fifteen calendar months, and fourteen days,from that date.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admira-tion among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Train loads of troopspassed through Jonesboro daily on their way north to Atlanta and Virginia, Some detachments were gaily uniformed inthe scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia companies; some small groups were in homespun andcoonskin caps; others, ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild withexcitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic.
-- Surely, things must be in a desperate pass if this rabble of bombproofers, old men and little boyswere being called out!To be sure there were young and able-bodied men in the passing lines, tricked out in the brightuniforms of socially select militia units, plumes waving, sashes dancing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not long after him in leaving the house too, and when I went down the High Street I saw him holding forth (no doubt to the same effect) at his shop door to a select group, who honored me with very unfavorable glances as I passed on the opposite side of the way.
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：
-- The two sisters at once called on Mrs Bolton, in a new-ish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall.
-- And though it was the Signora who paid him and gave him orders, he rather hoped it would be the young mi-lady who would select hint for L'AMORE.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed the dancing-master was so proud of it, and so wishful to display it before he left to a few select friends among the collegians, that at six o'clock on a certain fine morning, a minuet de la cour came off in the yard the college-rooms being of too confined proportions for the purpose in which so much ground was covered, and the steps were so conscientiously executed, that the dancing-master, having to play the kit besides, was thoroughly blown.
-- In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.
-- 'Hush!Amy,' said the father, passing his pocket-handkerchief several times across his face, and then grasping it convulsively in the hand that dropped across his knee, 'I have done what I could to keep you select here; I have done what I could to retain you a position here.
-- There it was exhibited to select companies of female viewers, in whose gentle bosoms it awakened implacable feelings.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER THIRTY Mrs. Chester's fair was so very elegant and select that it was considered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be invited to take a table, and everyone was much interest in the matter.
-- She took them with her one night to a select symposium, held in honor of several celebrities.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Ahab's proceedings in this matter were not unusual; the only strange thing about them seemed to be, that Starbuck, almost the one only man who had ever ventured to oppose him with anything in the slightest degree approaching to decision one of those too, whose faithfulness on the look-out he had seemed to doubt somewhat; it was strange, that this was the very man he should select for his watchman; freely giving his whole life into such an otherwise distrusted person's hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be this as it may, however, it was his ninth birthday; and he was keeping it in the coal-cellar with a select party of two other young gentleman, who, after participating with him in a sound thrashing, had been locked up for atrociously presuming to be hungry, when Mrs. Mann, the good lady of the house, was unexpectedly startled by the apparition of Mr. Bumble, the beadle, striving to undo the wicket of the garden-gate.
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