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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
-- So they both went out upon the high road; but as the weather was warm, they had not gone far before the dog said, 'I am very much tired I should like to take a nap.'
-- The willow-wren with his army also came flying through the air with such a humming, and whirring, and swarming that every one was uneasy and afraid, and on both sides they advanced against each other.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I answered in a few words, but in the most sub-missive manner, lifting up my left hand, and both my eyes to the sun, as calling him for a witness; and being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my im-patience (perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food.
-- But before this, they had daubed my face and both my hands with a sort of ointment, very pleas-ant to the smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows.
-- The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to describe.
-- I treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I ob-served both the soldiers and people were highly delighted at this mark of my clemency, which was represented very much to my advantage at court.
-- We desired it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the mid leg in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to our faces set us both a sneezing for several times together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bitzer, after rapidly blinking at Thomas Gradgrind with both eyes at once, and so catching the light upon his quivering ends of lashes that they looked like the antenn脙娄 of busy insects, put his knuckles to his freckled forehead, and sat down again.
-- Both rose, red and disconcerted.
-- 'The girl wanted to come to the school, and Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come to the school, and Louisa and Thomas both said that the girl wanted to come, and that Mr. Gradgrind wanted girls to come, and how was it possible to contradict them when such was the fact!'
-- Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared in short, it was the only clear thing in the case that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable.
-- Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men, and with a very knowing assumption of being stiff in the knees.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By some accident he may make the discovery; in which case, we are both lost.
-- Every farmer, every laborer, every fisherman can both read and write--and we think that books instead of being locked up in cupboards, far from the s ight of students, should be distributed as widely as possible.
-- It would have been both pleasurable and profitable if I could have spared the time."
-- The conversation ended by compliments on both sides.
-- At length the sturdy little pony, spreading out his legs, in a stiff and ludicrous attitude, got from under the Professor' slegs, and left him standing, with both feet on a separate stone, like the Colossus of Rhodes .
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：
-- Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they were eighteen.
-- Both sisters had had their love experience by the time the war came, and they were hurried home.
-- It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
-- Before Christmas of 1914 both their Ger-man young men were dead: whereupon the sisters wept, and loved the young men passionately, but underneath for-got them.
-- Both sisters lived in their father's, really their mother's, Kensington housemixed with the young Cambridge group, the group that stood for 'freedom' and flannel trousers, and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emo-tional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the jailer, turning upon him with southern quickness, and gesticulating with both his hands and all his fingers, as if he were threatening to tear him to pieces.
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