hound是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 猎狗; 卑鄙的人 vt. 用猎狗追, 追逐，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Hound of the BaskervillesBy Arthur Conan DoyleDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light and read in a high, cracking voice the following curious, old-world narrative: 'Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.
-- 'But I have seen more than that,' said he, 'for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.'
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- 'Such is the tale, my sons, of the coming of the hound which is said to have plagued the family so sorely ever since.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the hindmost as they rushed pan-ic-stricken onwards.
-- 'As for me, hound that he is, he dares not look me in the face.
-- With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans.
-- Thus did he hound them on, and in one body they rushed straight at the wall as he had bidden them, and scaled the battlements with sharp spears in their hands.
-- Achilles was still in full pursuit of Hector, as a hound chasing a fawn which he has started from its covert on the mountains, and hunts through glade and thicket.
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：
-- ejaculated his companion, turning quickly, like a hound who scented game.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of them were still fishermen and plantation-foremen, but one of them, Kellett, a man small-mouthed and angry and industrious, had risen from office-boy to owner of a shipping company, and while his father still spread his nets on the beach at Point Carib, Kellett was the scourge of the House of Assembly and a hound for economy--particularly any economy which would annoy his fellow legislator, George William Vertigan.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men could be trusted to keep their mouths shut, even men like Mr. Butler, butwith Honey Wilkes giving tongue like a hound in the field, the entire County would know about it before six o'clock.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!"
-- He had asked me if I was a deceiving imp, and he had said I should be a fierce young hound if I joined the hunt against him.
-- Would he believe that I was both imp and hound in treacherous earnest, and had betrayed him?
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：
-- You'll see, they'll hound that man down.
-- Oh, they'll hound the poor devil down.'
-- And for that they would hound him down.
-- Not like that blasted Clifford!A lily-livered hound with never a fuck in him, nev-er had.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might hunt her out at the show and hound her in that way.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're the meanest, treacherousest hound in this country.'
-- A rail fence round a two-acre yard; a stile made out of logs sawed off and up-ended in steps, like barrels of a different length, to climb over the fence with, and for the women to stand on when they are going to jump on to a horse; some sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like an old hat with the nap rubbed off; big double log-house for the white folks hewed logs, with the chinks stopped up with mud or mortar, and these mud-stripes been whitewashed some time or another; round-log kitchen, with a big broad, open but roofed passage joining it to the house; log smoke- house back of the kitchen; three little log nigger-cabins in a row t'other side the smoke-house; one little hut all by itself away down against the back fence, and some outbuildings down a piece the other side; ash- hopper and big kettle to bile soap in by the little hut; bench by the kitchen door, with bucket of water and a gourd; hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner; some currant bushes and gooseberry bushes in one place by the fence; outside of the fence a gar-den and a watermelon patch; then the cotton fields begins, and after the fields the woods.
-- When I got half-way, first one hound and then another got up and went for me, and of course I stopped and faced them, and kept still.
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