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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went over to her and kissed both her hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett, who did not know each other except by reputation, had both been carried to Richmond.
-- They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach, far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north, they went southward.
-- They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends, a feature which is not remarked in the common mussel.
-- They both carried, each in proportion to his strength, a load of wood bound in fagots.
-- But it was possible that at this time they were both too far away to be perceived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets.
-- When she had knocked twice or thrice there was a noise as if some person were moving inside, and at length a faint light appeared through the glass which, as it approached very slowly, the bearer having to make his way through a great many scattered articles, enabled me to see both what kind of person it was who advanced and what kind of place it was through which he came.
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
-- The opinion was not the result of hasty consideration, for which indeed there was no opportunity at that time, as the child came directly, and soon occupied herself in preparations for giving Kit a writing lesson, of which it seemed he had a couple every week, and one regularly on that evening, to the great mirth and enjoyment both of himself and his instructress.
-- 'Come, you let me alone,' said the boy, parrying Quilp's hand with both his elbows alternatively.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His wife became aware of it, and when, on one occasion, she found them both in the room, she fell on Katiousha and began to beat her.
-- At all events the arguments were equally strong on both sides, and Nekhludoff laughed as he compared himself to the ass in the fable who, while deciding which of the two bales of hay before him he should have his meal from, starved himself.
-- He recognized both the steps and the rapping.
-- Thrusting both her hands into a white pillow-case, and taking hold of two corners of the pillow, she turned her head and looked at him smiling, but it was not the old, cheerful, happy smile, but a frightened, piteous smile.
-- For about two minutes she sat motionless, then raised her eyes, smiled, reproachfully shook her head, at herself apparently, and, changing her position, with a start placed both hands on the table and fixed her eyes before her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were both the new kind of journalist very joyous, irreverent young men.
-- "I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud.
-- And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
-- I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not a very difficult question to answer, as there was only one road through the wood, and the two finger-posts both pointed along it.
-- Just then flew down a monstrous crow,As black as a tar-barrel;Which frightened both the heroes so,They quite forgot their quarrel.'
-- Alice did not like shaking hands with either of them first, for fear of hurting the other one's feelings; so, as the best way out of the difficulty, she took hold of both hands at once: the next moment they were dancing round in a ring.
-- After a pause, Alice began, 'Well!They were both very unpleasant characters ' Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast.
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