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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not take his eyes off the smouldering packet; but it appeared that something new had come to birth in his soul as though he were vowing to himself that he would bear this trial.
-- Instantly the scene changed, crowds of friends gathered round our baron, who meanwhile had lost his head over a celebrated demi-mondaine; he even discovered some relations; moreover a number of young girls of high birth burned to be united to him in lawful matrimony.
-- But I was absolutely amazed at the readiness with which the son had revealed the secret of his birth at the expense of his mother's honour.
-- Nothing would be easier than to prove the date of your birth from well-known facts; we can only look on Mr. Keller's version as a work of imagination, and one, more- over, extremely offensive both to you and your mother.
-- 'If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Call every man on your way, and bid him be stirring; name him by his lineage and by his father's name, give each all titular observance, and stand not too much upon your own dignity; we must take our full share of toil, for at our birth Jove laid this heavy burden upon us.'
-- Old Peleus bade his son Achilles fight ever among the fore-most and outvie his peers, while Menoetius the son of Actor spoke thus to you: 'My son,' said he, 'Achilles is of nobler birth than you are, but you are older than he, though he is far the better man of the two.
-- She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae.
-- Let us then weep Hector from afar here in our own house, for when I gave him birth the threads of overruling fate were spun for him that dogs should eat his flesh far from his parents, in the house of that terrible man on whose liver I would fain fasten and devour it.
-- To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face.
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：
-- Chingachgook assumed the station to which his birth and experience gave him so distinguished a claim, with the grave dignity that always gives force to the mandates of a native warrior.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- About this time the female onager gave birth to a young one which belonged to the same sex as its mother, and which throve capitally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This narration ended, Mr Garland put some questions to Kit respecting his qualifications and general acquirements, while Mrs Garland noticed the children, and hearing from Kit's mother certain remarkable circumstances which had attended the birth of each, related certain other remarkable circumstances which had attended the birth of her own son, Mr Abel, from which it appeared that both Kit's mother and herself had been, above and beyond all other women of what condition or age soever, peculiarly hemmed in with perils and dangers.
-- The man of high descent may love the halls and lands of his inheritance as part of himself: as trophies of his birth and power; his associations with them are associations of pride and wealth and triumph; the poor man's attachment to the tenements he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil.
-- As to the assertion that the flat stone near the door was not the grave of the miser who had disowned his only child and left a sum of money to the church to buy a peal of bells, the bachelor did readily admit the same, and that the place had given birth to no such man.
-- exclaimed the poor woman, 'I that never knew you tell a lie, or do a bad action from your cradle that have never had a moment's sorrow on your account, except it was the poor meals that you have taken with such good humour and content, that I forgot how little there was, when I thought how kind and thoughtful you were, though you were but a child! I believe it of the son that's been a comfort to me from the hour of his birth until this time, and that I never laid down one night in anger with!I believe it of you Kit! ''Why then, thank God!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
-- 'Lord, Lord!Well, it is strange that I who gave birth to her, and was a woman then, should be alive and merry now, and she lying there: so cold and stiff!Lord, Lord!--to think of it; it's as good as a play--as good as a play!'
-- She gave birth to a boy, and died.
-- The air become more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue--the death of night, rather than the birth of day--glimmered faintly in the sky.
-- Before you stake your all on this chance; before you suffer yourself to be carried to the highest point of hope; reflect for a few moments, my dear child, on Rose's history, and consider what effect the knowledge of her doubtful birth may have on her decision: devoted as she is to us, with all the intensity of her noble mind, and with that perfect sacrifice of self which, in all matters, great or trifling, has always been her characteristic.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, equally next to Jane in birth and beauty, succeeded her of course.
-- As Elizabeth had no longer any interest of her own to pursue, she turned her attention almost entirely on her sis-ter and Mr. Bingley; and the train of agreeable reflections which her observations gave birth to, made her perhaps al-most as happy as Jane.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The secret of my birth ' 'The secret of your birth!Do you mean to say ' 'Gentlemen,' says the young man, very solemn, 'I will re-veal it to you, for I feel I may have confi- dence in you.
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