cattle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 牛； 牲口， 家畜，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the hors-es; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
-- 'Ah!So much the worse!A bitter taste it is that such poor cattle always have in their mouths, and hard lives they live, Jacques.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She disliked in Levin his strange and uncompromising opinions and his shyness in society, founded, as she supposed, on his pride and his queer sort of life, as she considered it, absorbed in cattle and peasants.
-- If Levin had felt happy before in the cattle pens and farmyard, he felt happier yet in the open country.
-- The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.
-- There was no place where they could bathe; the whole of the river-bank was trampled by the cattle and open to the road; even walks were impossible, for the cattle strayed into the garden through a gap in the hedge, and there was one terrible bull, who bellowed, and therefore might be expected to gore somebody.
-- And in the struggle he saw that with immense expenditure of force on his side, and with no effort or even intention on the other side, all that was attained was that the work did not go to the liking of either side, and that splendid tools, splendid cattle and land were spoiled with no good to anyone.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!Parbleu!I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III There was blackleg among the cattle in Crynssen County.
-- He noted that the injected cattle showed no inflammation nor rise in temperature.
-- With no excuse and less encouragement he isolated blackleg organisms from sick cattle and prepared an attenuated vaccine of his own.
-- He commented to Leora: "Dignity, hell!If I had my way I'd be doing research--oh, not this cold detached stuff of Gottlieb but really practical work--and then I'd have some fellow like Sondelius take my results and jam 'em down people's throats, and I'd make them and their cattle and their tabby-cats healthy whether they wanted to be or not, that's what I'd do!"
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that's only the skin of the woman, and these dandy cattle be as proud as a lucifer in their insides."
-- Though in one sense a woman of the world, it was, after all, that world of daylight coteries and green carpets wherein cattle form the passing crowd and winds the busy hum; where a quiet family of rabbits or hares lives on the other side of your party-wall, where your neighbour is everybody in the tything, and where calculation is confined to market-days.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced round the squalid room, saw the eighteen poverty- stricken creatures about to feed like cattle in their stalls, and the sight filled him with loathing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Across the road would be new rail fences, inclosing fat cattle andblooded horses, and the red earth that rolled down the hillside to the rich river bottom land would gleam white aseiderdown in the sun cotton; acres and acres of cotton!The fortunes of the O'Haras would rise again.
-- Now they'd know what it meant to have fertile fields stripped,horses and cattle stolen, houses burned, old men and boys dragged off to prison and women and children turned out tostarve.
-- No far-off cattle lowed, no birds sang, no wind waved thetrees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.
-- It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too.
-- The cattle came upon me with like suddenness, staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, "Halloa, young thief!"
-- At first, I had to shut some gates after me, and now and then to stand still while the cattle that were lying in the banked-up pathway arose and blundered down among the grass and reeds.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather con-jecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
-- This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; which I did in a few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the dan-gers I underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity.
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