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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their parents are suffered to see them only twice a year; the visit is to last but an hour; they are allowed to kiss the child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by on those occasions, will not suffer them to whis-per, or use any fondling expressions, or bring any presents of toys, sweetmeats, and the like.
-- When dinner was almost done, the nurse came in with a child of a year old in her arms, who immediately spied me, and began a squall that you might have heard from Lon-don-Bridge to Chelsea, after the usual oratory of infants, to get me for a plaything.
-- y mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child Mof towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby.
-- He took me up in his right fore-foot and held me 149as a nurse does a child she is going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe; and when I offered to struggle he squeezed me so hard, that I thought it more prudent to submit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He intended every child in it to be a model just as the young Gradgrinds were all models.
-- A space of stunted grass and dry rubbish being between him and the young rabble, he took his eyeglass out of his waistcoat to look for any child he knew by name, and might order off.
-- She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
-- 'If I was to live wi' her an' not marry her saying such a thing could be, which it never could or would, an' her so good there's a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me?'
-- For, say that the child of a King and the child of a Weaver were born to-night in the same moment, what was that disparity, to the death of any human creature who was serviceable to, or beloved by, another, while this abandoned woman lived on!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While we were all giving way to the delights of new-found pleasures, a little child appeared between two tufted olive trees.
-- The child made no reply.
-- The child shook its head and made no reply.
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：
-- A man was like a child with his appetites.
-- A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connexion.
-- His importance as son of Sir Geoffrey, and child of Wragby, was so ingrained in him, he could never escape it.
-- 'It would almost be a good thing if you had a child by an-other man, he said.
-- If we had the child to rear, it would be our own, and it would carry on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked sharply at the birds himself, as he held the child up at the grate, especially at the little bird, whose activity he seemed to mistrust.
-- The child put all these things between the bars into the soft, Smooth, well-shaped hand, with evident dread more than once drawing back her own and looking at the man with her fair brow roughened into an expression half of fright and half of anger.
-- said the keeper of the prison, taking his pretty child in his arms, and dictating the words with a kiss.
-- the pretty child repeated.
-- cried Mother, breaking out again, "when I saw all those children ranged tier above tier, and appealing from the father none of them has ever known on earth, to the great Father of us all in Heaven, I thought, does any wretched mother ever come here, and look among those young faces, wondering which is the poor child she brought into this forlorn world, never through all its life to know her love, her kiss, her face, her voice, even her name!"
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm getting too old for such things,' observed Meg, who was as much a child as ever about 'dressing-up' frolics.
-- There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still and and loved her pets as well as ever.
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