calf是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小牛， 腿肚子，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One night he slid down from the post and slipped in between the elephants and threw up the loose end of a rope, which had dropped, to a driver who was trying to get a purchase on the leg of a kicking young calf (calves always give more trouble than full-grown animals).
-- He went into the Keddah at the last drive, and threw Barmao there the rope, when we were trying to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from his mother.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Levin went into the pen, looked Pava over, and lifted the red and spotted calf onto her long, tottering legs.
-- Pava, uneasy, began lowing, but when Levin put the calf close to her she was soothed, and, sighing heavily, began licking her with her rough tongue.
-- It's particulary nice if Pava's daughter should be a red-spotted cow, and all the herd will take after her, and the other three, too!Splendid!To go out with my wife and visitors to meet the herd.... My wife says, Kostya and I looked after that calf like a child.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beside her Oak now noticed a little calf about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it apparently mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.
-- They placed the calf beside its mother again, took up the lantern, and went out, the light sinking down the hill till it was no more than a nebula.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I won't," he finally managed to breathe, never dreaming that she was thinking he looked like a calf waiting forthe butcher.
-- She done have a calf las' night Dat why she beller so."
-- "An' ain' no use quarrelin'wid blessin's, 'cause dat calf gwine ter mean a full cow an' plen'y buttermilk fer de young Misses, lak dat Yankeedoctah say dey' need."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow-herd in and said: 'Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.'
-- The little calf always remained standing like one which was eat- ing, and the cow-herd said: 'It will soon run by itself, just look how it eats already!'
-- But the little peasant stood at his door, and waited for his little calf, and when the cow-herd drove the cows through the 157village, and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was.
-- The peasant, however, said: 'Don't tell me that,' and led the cow-herd before the mayor, who for his careless-ness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away.
-- They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf skin.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone home, I had been happy, and my father, as in our blessed Saviour's parable, had even killed the fatted calf for me; for hearing the ship I went away in was cast away in Yarmouth Roads, it was a great while before he had any as-surances that I was not drowned.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calf got the shirt, I reckon, but the calf never took the spoon, THAT'S certain.'
-- So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn't no consequence, it would blow over by and by.
-- We was all glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg.
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