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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In thenine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until theyear of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the birth of her first little child she was very glad, and forgot the dwarf, and what she had said.
-- Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful tidings, and when the time was come she gave birth to a son, and the king was filled with gladness.
-- As he drew near, the raven said, 'I am by birth a king's daughter, but am now under the spell of some enchantment; you can, however, set me free.'
-- So they dared no longer hide the truth from her, but said it was the will of Heaven, and that her birth was only the innocent cause of it; but the little girl mourned sadly about it every day, and thought herself bound to do all she could to bring her broth-ers back; and she had neither rest nor ease, till at length one day she stole away, and set out into the wide world to find her brothers, wherever they might be, and free them, what-ever it might cost her.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, as to myself, I must con-fess, having never been designed for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a judge of things, that I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence, but conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than gentle.
-- When one of them is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand years past, or at least has been de-stroyed by time or public disturbances.
-- I said, 'my birth was of honest parents, in an island called England; which was remote from his country, as many days' journey as the strongest of his honour's servants could trav-el in the annual course of the sun; that I was bred a surgeon, whose trade it is to cure wounds and hurts in the body, got-ten by accident or violence; that my country was governed by a female man, whom we called queen; that I left it to get riches, whereby I might maintain myself and family, when I should return; that, in my last voyage, I was commander of the ship, and had about fifty Yahoos under me, many of which died at sea, and I was forced to supply them by oth-ers picked out from several nations; that our ship was twice in danger of being sunk, the first time by a great storm, and the second by striking against a rock.'
-- I said, 'they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes.
-- I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, 'that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobil-ity, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years 326 Gulliver's Travelswill permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odi-ous diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The inequality of Birth was nothing to it.
-- Every inch of the existence of mankind, from birth to death, was to be a bargain across a counter.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'More than that, we've got your birth in our Register, you know; you're one of our curiosities.'
-- He had given so few signs of reason, that a by-word went among his companions that his brain had been frozen up in a mighty frost which prevailed at St John's, New Brunswick, at the period of his birth there, and had never thawed from that hour.
-- I make that remark, because it is not to be doubted that my son, being by birth and by ha by education a hum a gentleman, would have readily adapted himself to any obligingly expressed wish on the subject of the fire being equally accessible to the whole of the present circle.
-- When half-a-dozen of you fall out by the ears, it seems that mother earth can give birth to no other rulers.
-- But, taking no further note of them than was sufficient to give birth to the reflection, he sought out a certain street and number which he kept in his mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never forgetting that by birth she was a gentle-woman, she cultivated her aristocratic tastes and feelings, so that when the opportunity came she might be ready to take the place from which poverty now excluded her.
-- Mr. Tudor's uncle had married an English lady who was third cousin to a living lord, and Amy regarded the whole family with great re-spect, for in spite of her American birth and breeding, she possessed that reverence for titles which haunts the best of us that unacknowledged loyalty to the early faith in kings which set the most democratic nation under the sun in fer-ment at the coming of a royal yellow-haired laddie, some years ago, and which still has something to do with the love the young country bears the old, like that of a big son for an imperious little mother, who held him while she could, and let him go with a farewell scolding when he rebelled.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.
-- For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events, as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
-- Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
-- When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.
-- **The sperm whale, as with all other species of the Leviathan, but unlike most other fish, breeds indifferently at all seasons; after a gestation which may probably be set down at nine months, producing but one at a time; though in some few known instances giving birth to an Esau and Jacob: a contingency provided for in suckling by two teats, curiously situated, one on each side of the anus; but the breasts themselves extend upwards from that.
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