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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His audience consisted of a youth of about fifteen years of age with a clever face, who had a book in his hand, though he was not reading; a young lady of twenty, in deep mourn-ing, stood near him with an infant in her arms; another girl of thirteen, also in black, was laughing loudly, her mouth wide open; and on the sofa lay a handsome young man, with black hair and eyes, and a suspicion of beard and whiskers.
-- 'No doubt he ran off because he did not know what to say to you,' said the youth on the divan.
-- Lebedeff's nephew, whom the read-er has seen already, accompanied him, and also the youth named Hippolyte Terentieff.
-- In his youth P , the sensualist, had seduced a young girl, poor but respectable.
-- 'Since you must have observed yourself that this is no joke, and since at least half your guests must also have concluded that after all that has been said this youth MUST blow his brains out for honour's sake I as master of this house, and before these witnesses, now call upon you to take steps.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Forthwith Ajax, son of Telamon, slew the fair youth Si-moeisius, son of Anthemion, whom his mother bore by the banks of the Simois, as she was coming down from Mt.
-- When he went all unattended as envoy to the city of Thebes among the Cadmeans, I bade him feast in their houses and be at peace; but with that high spirit which was ever present with him, he challenged the youth of the Cadmeans, and at once beat them in all that he attempted, so mightily did I help him.
-- As men now are, even one who is in the bloom of youth could hardly lift it with his two hands, but Ajax raised it high aloft and flung it down, smashing Epicles' four-crested helmet so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell from the high wall as though he were diving, with no more life left in him.
-- Moreover he is in the flower of youth when a man's strength is greatest; if I was of the same age as he is and in my present mind, either he or I should soon bear away the prize of victory.'
-- Wretch, you should have com-manded some other and baser army, and not been ruler over us to whom Jove has allotted a life of hard fighting from youth to old age, till we every one of us perish.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could see nothing, but gave reason for supposing that he did, and others of the Iping youth presently joined him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' Shakespeare hile one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily pre-Wsented to the reader was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the excla-mation, and, laughing at her own weakness, she inquired of the youth who rode by her side: 'Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- None can say they have ever known me to neglect my gifts!I am thankful that, though my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syl-lable of rude verse has ever profaned my lips.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wickham passed all his youth there, you know.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a- fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth - the Maresco, as they called him - to catch a dish of fish for him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mother will secure to you, in time, that independence you are so anxious for; it is her duty, and it will, it must ere long become her happiness to prevent your whole youth from being wasted in discontent.
-- CHAPTER 26Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
-- He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced, in a situation of the utmost distress, with no creditable home, no help, no friends, ignorant of his address!He had left her, promising to return; he neither returned, nor wrote, nor relieved her."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A youth with tan-coloured hair, that needed clipping very badly, came shuffling along between the machines, bearing a basket of leather findings under his left arm, and pressed against his stomach.
-- In the crowded elevator, another dusty, toil-stained youth tried to make an impression on her by leering in her face.
-- Carrie, on the other hand, had the blood of youth and some imagination.
-- Instead he found a woman whose youth and beauty attracted him.
-- He was a youth again in feeling--a cavalier in action.
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