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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a thoroughly bad character who would take advantage of your youth and innocence to makeyou conspicuous and publicly disgrace you and your family.
-- I hope and pray it was only youth andthoughtlessness that prompted such forward conduct.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul.
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.
-- Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.
-- With her character thus happily formed, in the first bloom of her youth she had encountered Mr. Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many had al-ready made the attempt, but in vain; nevertheless when the youth saw the king's daughter he was so overcome by her great beauty that he forgot all danger, went before the king, and declared himself a suitor.
-- The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.
-- The youth did not know where the Tree of Life stood, but he set out, and would have gone on for ever, as long as his legs would carry him, though he had no hope of finding it.
-- The youth was sent into a strange town, and remained a whole year with the master.
-- The youth was taken thither, and stayed a year with this master likewise.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had learned in my youth to play a little upon the spinet.
-- He had a youth about eighteen years old standing by his side.
-- He told me, 'he had for many years been commander of a ship; and in the sea fight at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy's great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony's flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, his only son, was killed in the action.'
-- They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and mid-dle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections.
-- I was ordered to speak the few words I understood; and while they were at dinner, the master taught me the names for oats, milk, fire, water, and some others, which I could readily pronounce after him, having from my youth a great facility in learning languages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the measure that he would not allow his own youth to have been attended by a single favourable circumstance, he brightened Mrs. Sparsit's juvenile career with every possible advantage, and showered waggon-loads of early roses all over that lady's path.
-- He likewise entertained his guest over the soup and fish, with the calculation that he (Bounderby) had eaten in his youth at least three horses under the guise of polonies and saveloys.
-- If I might venture to remark that it is the least in the world deficient in that delicacy to which a youth mistaken, a character misconceived, and abilities misdirected, would turn for relief and guidance, I should express what it presents to my own view.'
-- They were better off in their youth than I was, however.
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：
-- So they had given the gift of themselves, each to the youth with whom she had the most subtle and intimate ar-guments.
-- It was her youth which rebelled.
-- You'll let your youth slip by, and you'll spend your old age, and your middle age too, repenting it.'
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