father是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 父亲； 创始人， 发明者； (Father) 神父，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learn-ing navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
-- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's father as calls me Sissy, sir,' returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.
-- Your father breaks horses, don't he?'
-- Describe your father as a horsebreaker.
-- Their father walked on in a hopeful and satisfied frame of mind.
-- But, Louisa looked at her father with more boldness than Thomas did.
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：
-- His father had died, Clifford was now a baronet, Sir Clifford, and Constance was Lady Chatterley.
-- Her father was the once well-known R. A., old Sir Malcolm Reid.
-- When the girls came home for the summer holidays of 1913, when Hilda was twenty and Connie eighteen, their father could see plainly that they had had the love experi-ence.
-- His father was a baronet, and his mother had been a viscount's daughter.
-- Clifford felt his father was a hopeless anachronism.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monsieur Rigaud, indifferent to this distinction, propitiated the father by laughing and nodding at the daughter as often as she gave him anything; and, so soon as he had all his viands about him in convenient nooks of the ledge on which he rested, began to eat with an appetite.
-- My father was Swiss Canton de Vaud.
-- cried Mother, breaking out again, "when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever known on earth, to the great Father of us all in Heaven, I thought, does any wretched mother ever come here, and look among those young faces, wondering which is the poor child she brought into this forlorn world, never through all its life to know her love, her kiss, her face, her voice, even her name!"
-- I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother.
-- Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the last three on one side of the table: on the opposite side sat Mr Clennam; a tall French gentleman with raven hair and beard, of a swart and terrible, not to say genteelly diabolical aspect, but who had shown himself the mildest of men; and a handsome young Englishwoman, travelling quite alone, who had a proud observant face, and had either withdrawn herself from the rest or been avoided by the rest nobody, herself excepted perhaps, could have quite decided which.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We've got Father and Mother, and each other,' said Beth contentedly from her corner.
-- She didn't say 'perhaps never,' but each silent-ly added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
-- 'I don't believe any of you suffer as I do,' cried Amy, 'for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.'
-- Her father called her 'Little Miss Tranquility', and the name suited her excel-lently, for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved.
-- 'I think it was so splendid in Father to go as chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier,' said Meg warmly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favourite.
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