social是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 社会的； 交际的，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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her wish of shewing you attention could not be doubted, and his being a disengaged and social man makes it all easy.
-- She would keep the peace if pos-sible; and there was something honourable and valuable in the strong domestic habits, the all-sufficiency of home tohimself, whence resulted her brother's disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse, and those to whom it was important. It had a high claim to forbear-ance.
-- He seemed to have all the life and spirit, cheerful feelings, and social inclinations of his father, and nothing of the pride or reserve of Enscombe.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But perhaps her air was the inevitable result of the social rise which had advanced her from a cottage to a large house and fields.
-- said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.
-- The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her visual familiarity, oral strangeness.
-- Boldwood always carried with him a social atmosphere of his own, which everybody felt who came near him; and the talk, which Bathsheba's presence had somewhat suppressed, was now totally suspended.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, the man appeared to have been one of the beasts of burden in our great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
-- He seemed to delight in scourging the upper classes of society with the lash of his tongue, to take pleasure in convicting it of inconsistency, in mocking at law and order with some grim jest worthy of Juvenal, as if some grudge against the social system rankled in him, as if there were some mystery carefully hidden away in his life.
-- The question strikes at the root of many a social injustice.
-- At first he determined to fling himself heart and soul into his work, but he was diverted from this purpose by the need of society and connections; then he saw how great an influence women exert in social life, and suddenly made up his mind to go out into this world to seek a protectress there.
-- Suddenly the young man's ambition discerned in those recollections of hers, which had been like nursery fairy tales to her nephews and nieces, the elements of a social success at least as important as the success which he had achieved at the Ecole de Droit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues and to dep- recate the vices of mankind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned ahundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
-- He felt keenly, as his brothers did not, the social stigmaattached to those "in trade."
-- If they showed no aptitude for any of thesetrades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing atall.
-- Jonas was a Yankee and a bachelor, and the factthat he was an overseer forever barred him from any contact with the County social life.
-- He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, soinadequately covered by their courtesy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.
-- I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran "Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove."
-- This was the time for Wemmick to produce a little kettle, a tray of glasses, and a black bottle with a porcelain-topped cork, representing some clerical dignitary of a rubicund and social aspect.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was only to be satisfied by three sonorous repetitions of the boast.
-- 'Yes, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a kind of social widowhood upon her.
-- In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and finally settled if those concerned could only have been brought to know it.
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