youth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 青年； 年轻人，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It belonged to a red-haired person- a youth offifteen, as I take it now, but looking much olderwhose hair wascropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly anyeyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, sounsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how hewent to sleep.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was now some time since Miss Taylor had begun to in-fluence his schemes; but as it was not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth, it had not shaken his determination of never settling till he could purchase Randalls, and the sale of Randalls was long looked forward to; but he had gone steadily on, with these objects in view, till they were accom-plished.
-- Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.
-- What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.
-- The Picture, elegantly framed, came safely to hand soon after Mr. Elton's return, and being hung over the mantel-piece of the common sitting-room, he got up to look at it, and sighed out his half sentences of admiration just as he ought; and as for Harriet's feelings, they were visibly form-ing themselves into as strong and steady an attachment as her youth and sort of mind admitted.
-- To youth and natural cheerfulness like Emma's, though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his face one might notice that many of the hues and curves of youth had tarried on to manhood: there even remained in his remoter crannies some relics of the boy.
-- He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the stage wherein they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.
-- Having from their youth up been entirely unaccustomed to any liquor stronger than cider or mild ale, it was no wonder that they had succumbed, one and all, with extraordinary uniformity, after the lapse of about an hour.
-- "Liddy," she said, with a lighter heart, for youth and hope had begun to reassert themselves; "you are to be my confidante for the present somebody must be and I choose you.
-- Bathsheba was momentarily relieved of that wayward heaviness of the past twenty-four hours which had quenched the vitality of youth in her without substituting the philosophy of maturer years, and she resolved to go out and walk a little way.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Parisian straying into a suburb apparently composed of lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudgery.
-- Was she expiating the flaunting triumphs of a youth overcrowded with pleasures by an old age in which she was shunned by every passer-by?
-- In spite of the ravages of conflicting passions, her face retained some traces of its former fairness and fineness of tissue, some vestiges of the physical charms of her youth still survived.
-- He meant, like all great souls, that his success should be owing entirely to his merits; but his was pre-eminently a southern temperament, the execution of his plans was sure to be marred by the vertigo that seizes on youth when youth sees itself alone in a wide sea, uncertain how to spend its energies, whither to steer its course, how to adapt its sails to the winds.
-- He was so lucky as to light upon some one who did not laugh at his ignorance, a fatal defect among the gilded and insolent youth of that period; the coterie of Maulincourts, Maximes de Trailles, de Marsays, Ronquerolles, Ajuda-Pintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris--Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the Comtesse de Kergarouet, Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his ser-vices.
-- I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
-- With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowl-edge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.
-- I listened to his statement, which was delivered without any presumption or affectation, and then added that his lecture had removed my prejudices against modern chemists; I expressed myself in measured terms, with the modesty and deference due from a youth to his instructor, without letting escape (inexperience in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated my intended labours.
-- She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
-- But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuousas herself.
-- Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and thepleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could getanything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her.
扩展阅读：