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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The proposal is like yourself, and if the position I shall assume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale ''Why, of course it is,' said Bounderby.
-- From Mr. Bounderby I have received every acknowledgment of my social station, and every recognition of my family descent, that I could possibly expect.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were at once cosmopolitan and provincial, with the cosmopolitan provincialism of art that goes with pure social ideals.
-- Personally, I consider Bolshevism half-witted; but so do I consider our social life in the west half-witted.
-- She was perfect at the social sport of coolly holding her own, and making other people defer to her.
-- It was produc-ing a new race of mankind, over-conscious in the money and social and political side, on the spontaneous, intuitive side dead, but dead.
-- It is one of the most momentous facts of social science.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With no earthly friend to help her, or so much as to see her, but the one so strangely assorted; with no knowledge even of the common daily tone and habits of the common members of the free community who are not shut up in prisons; born and bred in a social condition, false even with a reference to the falsest condition outside the walls; drinking from infancy of a well whose waters had their own peculiar stain, their own unwholesome and unnatural taste; the Child of the Marshalsea began her womanly life.
-- This brought them to the tavern-establishment at the upper end of the prison, where the collegians had just vacated their social evening club.
-- He was 'only a plasterer,' Little Dorrit said, as a caution to him not to form high social expectations of Plornish.
-- In a word, it was represented (Clennam called to mind, alone in the ticking parlour) that many people select their models, much as the painters, just now mentioned, select theirs; and that, whereas in the Royal Academy some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs (thereby planting thorns of confusion in the breasts of the more observant students of nature), so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.
-- Her next surprise was to find him equally at his ease within the prison; to hear of his presenting himself among the visitors at her father's Sunday levee; to see him arm in arm with a Collegiate friend about the yard; to learn, from Fame, that he had greatly distinguished himself one evening at the social club that held its meetings in the Snuggery, by addressing a speech to the members of the institution, singing a song, and treating the company to five gallons of ale report madly added a bushel of shrimps.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe,' said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her nov-el, was not in the best mood for social enterprises.
-- It was a People's Course, the lecture on the Pyramids, and Jo rather wondered at the choice of such a subject for such an audience, but took it for granted that some great social evil would be remedied or some great want supplied by un-folding the glories of the Pharaohs to an audience whose thoughts were busy with the price of coal and flour, and whose lives were spent in trying to solve harder riddles than that of the Sphinx.
-- Bless you all!Ever your lov-ing... JoCHAPTER THIRTY-FOURThough very happy in the social atmosphere about her, and very busy with the daily work that earned her bread and made it sweeter for the effort, Jo still found time for literary labors.
-- His rusty coat had a social air, and the baggy pockets plainly proved that little hands often went in empty and came out full.
-- It was a lively scene, for soon the spirit of the social sea-son took possession of everyone, and Christmas merriment made all faces shine, hearts happy, and heels light.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it would they let me since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.
-- But perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo's performances this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish.
-- Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas entire strangers to them and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
-- Soon I proposed a social smoke; and, producing his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff.
-- After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our room together.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could see him instantly before her, in every charm of air and address; but she could remember no more substantial good than the general approbation of the neighbourhood, and the regard which his social powers had gained him in the mess.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must be that a strange bundle of passions and vague desires give rise to such a curious social institution or it would not be.
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