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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The road lay through a beautiful fertile region, abounding in rich pasturages; where a hundred thousand cattle might have fed comfortably.
-- After a few minute's talk with the Patagonian, the interpreter turned to Glenarvan and said:"Thalcave is quite astonished at the fact, and certainly it is very strange that there are no Indians, nor even traces of any to be seen in these plains, for they are generally thick with companies of them, either driving along cattle stolen from the ESTANCIAS, or going to the Andes to sell their zorillo cloths and plaited leather whips."
-- The ESTANCIAS are large cattle stations for breeding cattle; but Thalcave resolved not to stop at any of them, but to go straight on to Fort Independence.
-- It was nearly nightfall before the party returned to the yacht, chattering and admiring the natural riches displayed on all sides, for even close to the streets of the capital, fields of wheat and maize were waving, and crops of vegetables, imported forty years before; and in the environs of the village, herds of cattle and sheep were feeding.
-- There are 103,000 horses spreading over the plains, and 675,272 horned cattle graze in her wide-stretching pastures."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And everyone of them shows his rags, his toil-worn hands, and yells in his wrath: 'Here are we, working like cattle all our lives, and always as hungry as dogs, and there are others who do not work, and are fat and rich!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have not raid-ed my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea.
-- As two lions whom their dam has reared in the depths of some moun-tain forest to plunder homesteads and carry off sheep and cattle till they get killed by the hand of man, so were these two vanquished by Aeneas, and fell like high pine-trees to the ground.
-- But the son of Saturn made Glaucus take leave of his wits, for he exchanged golden armour for bronze, the worth of a hun-dred head of cattle for the worth of nine.
-- From this spot then, with a voice that could be heard afar, he shouted to the Danaans, saying, 'Argives, shame on you cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only; where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?
-- Take your horses out of their chari-ots and give them their feeds of corn; then make speed to bring sheep and cattle from the city; bring wine also and corn for your horses and gather much wood, that from dark till dawn we may burn watchfires whose flare may reach to heaven.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he was old enough to understand things, Bagheera told him that he must never touch cattle because he had been bought into the Pack at the price of a bull's life.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best biscuit, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their constant food.
-- 94 Gulliver's TravelsThe short time I continued in England, I made a consider-able profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others: and before I began my second voyage, I sold them for six hundred pounds.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her ves-sels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of ship-building and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.
-- The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got ner-vous like Yankee biddies.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks; and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they are drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the fattest of Pharaoh's fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not admit that of all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
-- Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness of the more enormous creatures of the globe, yet what shall we say to Harto, the historian of Goa, when he tells us that at one hunting the King of Siam took 4,000 elephants; that in those regions elephants are numerous as droves of cattle in the temperate climes.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first thing I proposed to myself was, to throw down my enclosures, and turn all my tame cattle wild into the woods, lest the enemy should find them, and then frequent the island in prospect of the same or the like booty: then the simple thing of digging up my two corn-fields, lest they should find such a grain there, and still be prompted to frequent the island: then to demol-ish my bower and tent, that they might not see any vestiges of habitation, and be prompted to look farther, in order to find out the persons inhabiting.
-- He looked full of con-cern, and shaking his head, said, 'No, no, Friday tell them to live good; tell them to pray God; tell them to eat corn-bread, cattle flesh, milk; no eat man again.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- houses, or cattle, or ' 'Stuff!stealing cattle and such things ain't rob- bery; it's burglary,' says Tom Sawyer.
-- I 'uz hungry, but I warn't afeard; bekase I knowed ole missus en de widder wuz goin' to start to de camp- meet'n' right arter breakfas' en be gone all day, en dey knows I goes off wid de cattle 'bout day-light, so dey wouldn' 'spec to see me roun' de place, en so dey wouldn' miss me tell arter dark in de evenin'.
-- Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beauti-ful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink.
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