stone是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 石， 石头； 岩石， 矿石； (水果的) 核、 子，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A stone stair led up to the door, the only opening; and narrow as this door was, the hurricane, and snow, and hail found their way in when the TEMPORALES were unchained in the mountains.
-- From the pendant lobe of his ears hung earrings of green jade, and round his neck a quivering necklace of "pounamous," a kind of jade stone sacred among the New Zealanders.
-- Some birds, suddenly awakened, flew away, uttering feeble cries, and the fugitives trembled when a stone loosened from its bed rolled to the foot of the mountain.
-- Under their united efforts the stone soon moved.
-- The young captain, followed closely by the whole party, and protected by the intense darkness, crept along the ridge, stopping when some loose stone rolled to the bottom.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
-- As you look at their gray stone huts against the scarred hill-sides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
-- Any one of these stone huts would give him a hiding-place.
-- 'Among the old houses on the hillside the stone huts where the old folk used to live.'
-- It is a wild night indoors, and what must it be in a stone hut upon the moor.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My next concern was to get me a stone mortar to stamp or beat some corn in; for as to the mill, there was no thought of arriving at that perfection of art with one pair of hands.
-- I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded."
-- There is not a stone laid of Fanny's green-house, and nothing but the plan of the flower-garden marked out."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Polished brass or nickel signs at the square stone entrances announced the firm and the nature of the business in rather neat and reserved terms.
-- She could have understood the meaning of a little stone-cutter's yard at Columbia City, carving little pieces of marble for individual use, but when the yards of some huge stone corporation came into view, filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river and traversed overhead by immense trundling cranes of wood and steel, it lost all significance in her little world.
-- Upon streetlamps at the various corners she read names such as Madison, Monroe, La Salle, Clark, Dearborn, State, and still she went, her feet beginning to tire upon the broad stone flagging.
-- The thoroughfare, in this part, was like a walled canon of brown stone and dark red brick.
-- The present lake wall of stone and granitoid was not then in place, but the road had been well laid out, the intermediate spaces of lawn were lovely to look upon, and the houses were thoroughly new and imposing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sh-she, Sister Hotchkiss, sh-she ' 'But how in the nation'd they ever GIT that grind- stone IN there, ANYWAY?
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The one who had done the trick was Pinocchio, who, not satisfied with that, dragged a heavy stone in front of it.
-- His new owner took him to a high cliff overlooking the sea, put a stone around his neck, tied a rope to one of his hind feet, gave him a push, and threw him into the water.
-- But feeling sorry for me, you tied a stone to my neck and threw me to the bottom of the sea.
-- They had not taken a hundred steps when they saw two rough-looking individuals sitting on a stone begging for alms.
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