strange是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 奇怪的， 奇异的； 陌生的， 生疏的； 外地的，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.
-- The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking.
-- THE STRANGE FACE.
-- It was Montgomery's strange attendant.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been hoisted into a ship at the end of a steam crane and taken for days across the water, and made to car-ry a mortar on his back in a strange and rocky country very far from India, and had seen the Emperor Theodore lying dead in Magdala, and had come back again in the steamer entitled, so the soldiers said, to the Abyssinian War medal.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has aris-en in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.
-- He was brought among us, as I have heard, by some strange accident in which your father was interested, and in which the savage was rigidly dealt by; but I forget the idle tale, it is enough, that he is now our friend.'
-- 'Nay, nay, I think not of it now; but this strange man amuses me; and if he 'hath music in his soul', let us not churlishly reject his company.'
-- 'That I will, and in English that the king needn't beashamed to answer,' returned the hunter, speaking in the language of which he boasted; 'but I see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man or beast; 'tis strange that an Indian should understand white sounds better than a man who, his very enemies will own, has no cross in his blood, although he may have lived with the red skins long enough to be sus-pected!Ha!there goes something like the cracking of a dry stick, too now I hear the bushes move yes, yes, there is a trampling that I mistook for the falls and but here they come themselves; God keep them from the Iroquois!'
-- 'Tis strange that an Indian should be lost atwixt Horican and the bend in the river!Is he a Mohawk?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
-- The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill- starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
-- Ichabod, who had no relish for this strange midnight companion, and bethought himself of the adventure of Brom Bones with the Galloping Hessian, now quickened his steed in hopes of leaving him behind.
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：
-- It is not strange, then, that those who wrote of him should have eked out their scanty recollections with a lively fancy, and it is evident that there was enough in the little that was known of him to give opportunity to the romantic scribe; there was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic.
-- Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
-- When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
-- On the other hand, she might wish to keep the affair quiet, and it might be highly indiscreet on my part to give any sign that this strange news had reached me.
-- "It's a very strange letter under the circumstances," I replied.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny, and after having, on the 20th of March, escaped from Richmond, besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant, they found themselves seven thousand miles from the capital of Virginia, which was the principal stronghold of the South, during the terrible War of Secession.
-- This strange and sonorous cry was produced by a game bird called grouse in the United States.
-- Its strange form caught the eye, and when Gideon Spilett, on the engineer's advice, had drawn the outline, they found that it resembled some fantastic animal, a monstrous leviathan, which lay sleeping on the surface of the Pacific.
-- The shape of the island is so strange that we shall not he troubled to imagine what it resembles.
-- Suddenly, a strange concert of discordant voices resounded in the midst of a thicket.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
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