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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clothing of both Mr. Fogg and Fix was in rags, as if they had themselves been actively engaged in the contest between Camerfield and Mandiboy.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ulcer, hell!She and the Reverend both eat too much.
-- They were held in an amphitheater whose seats curved so far around that the lecturer could not see both ends at once, and while Dr. Robertshaw, continuing to drone about blood circulation, was peering to the right to find out who was making that outrageous sound like a motor horn, far over on the left Clif Clawson would rise and imitate him, with sawing arm and stroking of imaginary whiskers.
-- So he was a traitor to both women, it was Leora who had intolerably roused him; it was really Leora whom he was caressing now; but it was Madeline who took his hunger to herself, and when she whimpered, "I'm so glad you're glad to be here," he could say nothing.
-- I'm engaged to both of you, and I want to know--" Madeline had sprung up.
-- Both of them have their merits.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he went on hurried-ly and with apparent composure when both the boys at the counter guffawed and even the innkeeper smiled 'No mat-ter, I am not confounded by the wagging of their heads; for everyone knows everything about it already, and all that is secret is made open.
-- And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same si-lence go up to Sonia's little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia's feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other's arms 芒聙娄 together, to-gether 芒聙娄 yes 芒聙娄 and I 芒聙娄 lay drunk.'
-- Marmeladov submissively and obediently held up both arms to facilitate the search.
-- And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she ar-rived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.
-- Was it all put into words or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declaredby the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood whohad taken a lively interest in me several months before there wasany possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that Iwas destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I wasprivileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitablyattaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender,born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
-- They went into the parlour my mother had come from, the fire inthe best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted-not having been lighted, indeed, since my father's funeral; andwhen they were both seated, and Miss Betsey said nothing, mymother, after vainly trying to restrain herself, began to cry.
-- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to saythis, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions,in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appearfrom anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child ofclose observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of mychildhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.
-- That, and a sense thatwe were both a little afraid of Peggotty, and submitted ourselves inmost things to her direction, were among the first opinions- if theymay be so called- that I ever derived from what I saw.
-- When I half awoke from this uncomfortable doze, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.
-- Being pretty well aware of what sort of joy you must both be feeling, I have been in no hurry with my congratulations; but I hope it all went off tolerably well.
-- Mrs. Weston, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread of its doing them both harm.'
-- Harriet was soon back again, and the proposal almost 52 Emmaimmediately made; and she had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.
-- She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress both in drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she would ever submit to.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, the village called Weatherbury, wherein the scenes of the present story of the series are for the most part laid, would perhaps be hardly discernible by the explorer, without help, in any existing place nowadays; though at the time, comparatively recent, at which the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions, both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily enough.
-- Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
-- He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; took a new handkerchief from the bottom of his clothes-box, put on the light waistcoat patterned all over with sprigs of an elegant flower uniting the beauties of both rose and lily without the defects of either, and used all the hair-oil he possessed upon his usually dry, sandy, and inextricably curly hair, till he had deepened it to a splendidly novel colour, between that of guano and Roman cement, making it stick to his head like mace round a nutmeg, or wet seaweed round a boulder after the ebb.
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