proverb是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 谚语， 格言， 箴言，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- his story proves the truth of the Russian proverb that 'hap-piness is the right of certain classes!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Why, Mr Trent,' returned Dick, 'there is a proverb which talks about being merry and wise.
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：
-- As a Russian proverb has it, 'Catch sev-eral hares and you won't catch one.'
-- From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that's only from the rational point of view you can't help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was quite a proverb for it at Maple Grove.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do when I have an opportunity, which latterly has not been often (my mother was a Parisienne) and there's a proverb they have, Qui aime bien, ch脙垄tie bien 'He chastens who loves well.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will--never would, in hundred years--impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one af-firmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoken it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I tell you again, darling, that Mrs General, if I may reverse a common proverb and adapt it to her, is a cat in gloves who will catch mice.
-- 'Why, sir, I read by it,' said Mr Flintwinch, screwing himself at him, 'that if it's advisable (as the proverb says it is) to let sleeping dogs lie, it's just as advisable, perhaps, to let missing dogs lie.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- (Grampus). Though this fish, whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales.
-- Oh!do not bow and look surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast "Corrupt as Lima."
-- However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you are poor; you deserve it!Remember the old proverb which says: 'Stolen money never bears fruit.'
-- Remember the old proverb which says: 'Bad wheat always makes poor bread!'"
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