history是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 历史， 历史学； 来历， 经历，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had not yet made any allusion to my change of fortune, nor did I know how much of my late history he was acquainted with.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality.
-- He said 'it was very reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally much larger, but also that there must have been giants in former ages; which, as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it has been confirmed by huge bones and skulls, casually dug up in several parts of the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of men in our days.'
-- I could not recover myself in some time, till the governor assured me, 'that I should receive no hurt:' and observing my two companions to be under no concern, who had been often entertained in the same manner, I began to take courage, and related to his highness a short history of my several adventures; yet not without some hesitation, and frequently looking behind me to the place where I had seen those domestic spectres.
-- Ancient and modern history corrected.
-- Upon inquiry I was told, 'that their names were to be found on no record, except a few of them, whom history has represented as the vilest of rogues and traitors.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the dinner my uncle had learned much as to the history of Arne Saknussemm, the reasons for his mysterious and hieroglyphical document.
-- "A splendid fellow," said my uncle; "only he little suspects the marvelous part he is about to play in the history of the world."
-- Looking back to my recent studies, I went over in thought the whole geological history of Iceland.
-- Here, in a nutshell, I had the whole history of the phenomena from which Iceland arose.
-- The whole singular history of the coal period was written on those dark and gloomy walls.
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：
-- She didn't say she had been the keeper's lover, she only said she liked him, and told Forbes the history of the man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat down glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters.
-- This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.
-- How he had made acquaintances in the Prison, expressly that he might come and go there as all other comers and goers did; and how his first ray of light was unconsciously given him by Mr Dorrit himself and by his son; to both of whom he easily became known; with both of whom he talked much, casually ('but always Moleing you'll observe,' said Mr Pancks): and from whom he derived, without being at all suspected, two or three little points of family history which, as he began to hold clues of his own, suggested others.
-- In the yard, was the man with the shadowy grievance respecting the Fund which the Marshal embezzled, who had got up at five in the morning to complete the copying of a perfectly unintelligible history of that transaction, which he had committed to Mr Dorrit's care, as a document of the last importance, calculated to stun the Government and effect the Marshal's downfall.
-- Though this history has its opinion on that point too, and decidedly in the affirmative.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE HISTORY OF A SQUASH Once upon a time a farmer planted a little seed.
-- But Mr. Dashwood rejected any but thrilling tales, and as thrills could not be produced except by harrowing up the souls of the readers, history and romance, land and sea, science and art, police records and lunatic asylums, had to be ransacked for the purpose.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
-- With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
-- Was it not so, O Don Miguel!thou Chilian whale, marked like an old tortoise with mystic hieroglyphics upon the back!In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of Cetacean History as Marius or Sylla to the classic scholar.
-- Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
-- As many know, he wrote the history of his own times, a work every way of uncommon value.
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