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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then things took place on board which, to say the least, were singular, and which ought not to be seen by people who were not placed beyond the pale of social laws.
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：
-- It would be queer to meet again down here in the Midlands, where their social standing was so diverse, after they had known each other on terms of equality in the houses of sundry acquaintances in town.
-- For Gudrun had been a social success, and had her friends among the slack aristocracy that keeps touch with the arts.
-- Hermione knew herself to be well-dressed; she knew herself to be the social equal, if not far the superior, of anyone she was likely to meet in Willey Green.
-- He seemed to take pleasure in his social functions, he smiled, and was abundant in hospitality.
-- Then she started, a little social smile came on her face, for a moment she looked the pleasant hostess.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4 WHAT vain weathercocks we are!I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While in the university he had that year read Spencer's Social Statics, and Spencer's reasoning bearing on private ownership of land produced a strong impression on him, especially because he was himself the son of a landed proprietress.
-- The speech of a prosecuting attorney, according to his idea, had to be invested with a social significance, according to the manner of those lawyers who became famous.
-- But now he resolved that, although there was before him a trip to Siberia and complex and difficult relations to the prison world, for which social standing, and especially money, were necessary, he could not, nevertheless, leave his affairs in their former condition, but must, to his own detriment, change them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the first time I began to realise an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.
-- There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle.
-- It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise.
-- In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements, and so forth.
-- Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe!What would he know of railway companies, of social movements, of telephone and telegraph wires, of the Parcels Delivery Company, and postal orders and the like?
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