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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'All the jungle is thine,' said Bagheera, 'and thou canst kill everything that thou art strong enough to kill; but for the sake of the bull that bought thee thou must never kill or eat any cattle young or old.
-- 'Bagheera spoke truth,' he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.
-- 'Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
-- All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If cattle have got their proper load, you never can persuade a woman that they'll not bear something more.
-- Oh!the glory of the sudden burst of light; the freshness of the fields and woods, stretching away on every side, and meeting the bright blue sky; the cattle grazing in the pasturage; the smoke, that, coming from among the trees, seemed to rise upward from the green earth; the children yet at their gambols down below all, everything, so beautiful and happy!It was like passing from death to life; it was drawing nearer Heaven.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the efforts of several hundred thousand people, crowded in a small space, to disfigure the land on which they lived; all the stone they covered it with to keep it barren; how so diligently every sprouting blade of grass was removed; all the smoke of coal and naphtha; all the cutting down of trees and driving off of cattle could not shut out the spring, even from the city.
-- It was perfectly clear that children and old people were dying for want of milk, and they had no milk because they had not land enough to feed the cattle and also raise bread and hay.
-- While he was finishing his notes, Nekhludoff heard the lowing of cattle in the village, the creaking of the opening gates and the voices of the peasants who were coming to meet their master.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Charming Jersey cattle came to the fence, breathing hoarsely from their velvet muzzles at the human beings, expecting perhaps a crust.
-- "And we've got to live for something, we're not just cattle that can graze and have done with it," said Gerald.
-- Gudrun could hear the cattle breathing heavily with helpless fear and fascination.
-- The cattle broke and fell back quite spontaneously, went running up the hill, their fleece waving like fire to their motion.
-- The cattle stood with their noses together on the brow of a slope, watching the scene below, the men in white hovering about the white forms of the women, watching above all Gudrun, who was advancing slowly towards them.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedgecutters.
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