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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Jo alone did the shy child tell her thoughts, and over her big harum-scarum sister Beth unconsciously exercised more influence than anyone in the family.
-- Laurie told me how fond Mr.Laurence used to be of the child who died, and how he kept all her little things carefully.
-- I should think she'd hate to poke herself where she isn't wanted,' said Jo crossly, for she disliked the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted to enjoy her-self.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With loud lament the parents saw their child borne out of sight over the wide waters.
-- Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee."
-- A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again. Oh Mary!Mary! boy!boy!boy! But if I wake thee not to death, old man, who can tell to what unsounded deeps Starbuck's body this day week may sink, with all the crew!Great God, where art Thou?
-- For you too have a boy, Captain Ahab though but a child, and nestling safely at home now a child of your old age too Yes, yes, you relent; I see it run, run, men, now, and stand by to square in the yards."
-- By the green land; by the bright hearth-stone!this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
-- 'You needn't mind sending up to me, if the child cries, nurse,' said the surgeon, putting on his gloves with great deliberation.
-- What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was!Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society.
-- Unfortunately for, the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended the operation of her system; for at the very moment when the child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food, it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident; in any one of which cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into another world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this.
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me then advise you, dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.
-- As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I needed none of all this precaution; for never man had a more faith-ful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me: without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and en-gaged; his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father; and I daresay he would have sacrificed his life to save mine upon any occasion whatsoever - the many testimonies he gave me of this put it out of doubt, and soon convinced me that I needed to use no precautions for my safety on his account.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son; but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods.
-- No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
-- How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?
-- On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
-- I would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the denial which her wishes might direct."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Finally he jumped up and handed the child to his wife.
-- Her fancy plunged recklessly into privileges and amusements which would have been much more becoming had she been cradled a child of fortune.
-- He would thrill as a child with the unhindered passion that was in him.
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