both是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 两者(都) ， 双方(都) adj. 两个…(都)，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names.
-- 'Both very busy, sir.'
-- And when old Fezziwig and Mrs Fezziwig had gone all through the 42 Sons and Loversdance; advance and retire, both hands to your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread-the-needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig cut cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
-- It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient indus-try.
-- But the relentless Ghost pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened next.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
-- They both listened.
-- The rider's horse was blown, and both horse and rider were covered with mud, from the hoofs of the horse to the hat of the man.
-- Rounding his mouth and both his eyes, as he stepped backward from the table, the waiter shifted his napkin from his right arm to his left, dropped into a comfortable atti-tude, and stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank, as from an observatory or watchtower.
-- After this odd description of his daily routine of em-ployment, Mr. Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and re-sumed his former attitude.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he caused large sums of Andersen's Fairy Talesmoney to be given to both the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.
-- They asked for the most delicate silk and the purest gold thread; put both into their own knapsacks; and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms until late at night.
-- And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and pat-terns.
-- said the Emperor, for he was very angry; and both Princess and swineherd were thrust out of the city.
-- Amongst other things they spoke of the middle ages: some praised that period as far more interesting, far more poetical than our own too sober present; indeed Councillor Knap defended this opin-18 Andersen's Fairy Talesion so warmly, that the hostess declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with unwearied el-oquence.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had both prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him.
-- But after seeing his brother, listening to his conversation with the professor, hearing afterwards the unconsciously patronizing tone in which his brother questioned him about agricultural matters (their mother's property had not been divided, and Levin took charge of both their shares), Levin felt that he could not for some reason begin to talk to him of his intention of marrying.
-- And suddenly both of them felt that though they were friends, though they had been dining and drinking together, which should have drawn them closer, yet each was thinking only of his own affairs, and they had nothing to do with one another.
-- Vronsky had told Kitty that both he and his brother were so used to obeying their mother that they never made up their minds to any important undertaking without consulting her.
-- She felt that this evening, when they would both meet for the first time, would be a turning point in her life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So clean, well-arranged, solemn a mansion pleased him; it seemed to him like a snail's shell, lighted and warmed by gas, which sufficed for both these purposes.
-- Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.
-- Neither Sir Francis nor Mr. Fogg regretted the delay, and both descended with a feeling of relief.
-- "Be so good, both of you, as to follow me."
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