birth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 出生， 诞生； 出身， 血统； 起源； 出现，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lie on the sea,' said Corsor; 'I have high roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She met Vronsky specially often at Betsy's for Betsy was a Vronsky by birth and his cousin.
-- When, after her separation from her husband, she gave birth to her only child, the child had died almost immediately, and the family of Madame Stahl, knowing her sensibility, and fearing the news would kill her, had substituted another child, a baby born the same night and in the same house in Petersburg, the daughter of the chief cook of the Imperial Household.
-- The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which was promised him, but which he still could not believe in--so marvelous it seemed--presented itself to his mind, on one hand, as a happiness so immense, and therefore so incredible; on the other, as an event so mysterious, that this assumption of a definite knowledge of what would be, and consequent preparation for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people, jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
-- "The birth itself, that's nothing; but the months of carrying the child--that's what's so intolerable," she thought, picturing to herself her last pregnancy, and the death of the last baby.
-- For the very fact of their birth they will be forced to be ashamed of their mother, their father, their birth."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What would be the worth of having all the world if he could not show it to her, if she was not there-- He denounced Nature for her way of tricking human beings, by every gay device of moonlight and white limbs and reaching loneliness, into having babies, then making birth as cruel and clumsy and wasteful as she could.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He brooded with relish, in profound secret, over the image of a girl virtuous, poor (she must be poor), very young, very pretty, of good birth and education, very timid, one who had suffered much, and was completely humbled before him, one who would all her life look on him as her saviour, worship him, admire him and only him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now child, from the moment of the birth of this girl-' 'Perhapsboy,' my mother took the liberty of putting in.
-- That was the time, Mr. Murdstone, when shegave birth to her boy here,' said my aunt; 'to the poor child yousometimes tor- mented her through afterwards, which is adisagreeable remembrance, and makes the sight of him odiousnow.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mis-fortune of your birth ought to make you particularly careful as to your associates.
-- Mr. Elton's situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and with-out low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet.
-- She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.
-- By birth she belonged to Highbury: and when at three years old, on losing her mother, she became the property, the charge, the consolation, the fondling of her grandmoth-er and aunt, there had seemed every probability of her being permanently fixed there; of her being taught only what very limited means could command, and growing up with no advantages of connexion or improvement, to be engrafted on what nature had given her in a pleasing person, good un-derstanding, and warm-hearted, well-meaning relations.
-- The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself; but it had been no present hope he had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment, aspired to be told that she did not forbid his attempt to attach her. The superior hopes which gradually opened were so much the more enchant-ing. The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! Within half an hour, he had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind, to something so like perfect happiness, that it could bear no other name.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "His being higher in learning and birth than the ruck o' soldiers is anything but a proof of his worth.
-- Yet I would rather my trifle were hid; though, perhaps, a high nater is a little high, and at my birth all things were possible to my Maker, and he may have begrudged no gifts....
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 23Chapter 1 am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the I most distinguished of that republic.
-- On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett, whose room lay across the hall from her mother's, knew from babyhood the soft sound of scurrying bareblack feet on the hardwood floor in the hours of dawn, the urgent tappings on her mother's door, and the muffled,frightened negro voices that whispered of sickness and birth and death in the long row of whitewashed cabins in thequarters.
-- Everyone was very polite and kind toher because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by beingthe governess of Mr. Calvert's children.
-- Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed andsick.
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