child是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小孩， 儿童， 儿女，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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She took it up and gave it to him, saying the most beautiful things in the world, most beautifully expressed; I do not know where she learned them; God must have put them into her head, for the poor child was inspired to speak so nicely that it made me cry like a fool to hear her talk.
-- The old man had forgotten his dinner, he was so absorbed in gazing at the poor girl; the sorrow in her face was unmistakable,--the slighted love of a child whose father would not recognize her.
-- The quick-witted child of the Charente felt the disadvantage at which he was placed beside this tall, slender dandy, with the clear gaze and the pale face, one of those men who would ruin orphan children without scruple.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to -induce me to commence this labourious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holi-day mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
-- The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
-- They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born.
-- His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.
-- When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Scarlett, alert as a child at the word.
-- There were pain and bewilderment in her face, thebewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time,was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.
-- He could not bear to see a slave poutingunder a reprimand, ho matter how well deserved, or hear a kitten mewing or a child crying; but he had a horror ofhaving this weakness discovered.
-- She was his oldest child and, nowthat Gerald knew there would be no more sons to follow the three who lay in the family burying ground, he had driftedinto a habit of treating her in a man-to-man manner which she found most pleasant.
-- But after all, you are nothing but a child and there's lots of other beaux."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you'd been born a Squeaker--""He was, if ever a child was," said my sister, most emphatically.
-- It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
-- She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
-- But the boldest point he made was this: it was attempted to be set up, in proof of her jealousy, that she was under strong suspicion of having, at about the time of the murder, frantically destroyed her child by this man--some three years old--to revenge herself upon him.
-- For anything we know, she may have destroyed her child, and the child in clinging to her may have scratched her hands.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his wife into the field; and they take their little child with them, and lay it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work.
-- The wolf ran with the child a little way; the shepherd and his wife screamed out; but Sultan soon overtook him, and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.
-- Then the shepherd patted him on the head, and said, 'Old Sultan has saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well taken care of, and have plenty to eat.
-- What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease look-ing on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.
-- However, the king hoped still to save his dear child alto-gether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
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