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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, listen, child of man, I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.'
-- Child of the Open Sea!
-- I will kill the big man and his wife, and the child if I can, and come away quietly.
-- Then Little Toomai covered his face with his hands, for he was only a child, and except where elephants were concerned, he was just as bashful as a child could be.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By no means,' returned Heyward, anxious to recall his error, if he had made one; 'the white man may, and does often, forget the burial place of his fathers; he sometimes ceases to remember those he should love, and has promised to cherish; but the affection of a parent for his child is never permitted to die.'
-- 'Go,' said the Huron, suppressing the alarming exhibi-tion in an instant, in a death-like calmness of countenance; 'go to the dark-haired daughter, and say, 'Magua waits to speak' The father will remember what the child promises.'
-- 'Look!the child weeps!She is too young to die!Send her to Munro, to comb his gray hairs, and keep life in the heart of the old man.'
-- He would have me,' she continued, her accents sink-ing under a deep consciousness of the degradation of the proposal, 'follow him to the wilderness; go to the habita-tions of the Hurons; to remain there; in short, to become his wife!Speak, then, Alice; child of my affections!sister of my love!And you, too, Major Heyward, aid my weak reason with your counsel.
-- 'Let us go to Montcalm, and demand admission: he dare not deny a child the boon.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
-- Among the musical disciples who assembled, one eve-ning in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The books he liked were queer; sometimes I would find him poring over the poems of Mallarme, and he read them as a child reads, forming the words with his lips, and I wondered what strange emotion he got from those subtle cadences and obscure phrases; and again I found him absorbed in the detective novels of Gaboriau.
-- He spoke as though I were a child that needed to be distracted.
-- Sometimes Mrs. Nichols would send her daughter, a pale-faced, sullen child of seven, to the hotel.
-- Dr. Coutras had a sense that the child was stealthily watching him from behind a tree.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ended by longing for it, like a child for a thing which it has been denied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my part, my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child's, for child she certainly was, although I thought it probable from what I could make out, that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar youthfulness to her appearance.
-- 'That, I must not tell,' said the child firmly.
-- I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity.
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- The door being opened, the child addressed him as grandfather, and told him the little story of our companionship.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This unmarried woman gave birth to a child every year, and, as is the custom in the villages, baptized them; then neglected the troublesome newcomers, and they finally starved to death.
-- The child was three years old when the mother fell ill and died.
-- She paid 40 rubles to the midwife for two months' board; 25 rubles it cost her to have the child taken away; 40 rubles the midwife borrowed of her to buy a cow with; the balance was spent on dresses, presents, etc., so that after the confinement she was practically penniless, and was compelled to look for a position.
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