chamber是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 房间; 议院; 贸易团体; 弹膛，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back.
-- They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
-- The Boar could not put me into my usual bedroom, which was engaged (probably by some one who had expectations), and could only assign me a very indifferent chamber among the pigeons and post-chaises up the yard.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it.
-- When any young man came within a hun-dred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed, and could not move a step till she came and set him free; which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again: but when any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy put her into a cage, and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
-- At last he came to the chamber where the fairy sat, with the seven hundred birds singing in the seven hundred cages.
-- He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds.
-- There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ceremony is performed in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very dif-ferent from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the new or old world.
-- This 114 Gulliver's Travelsman, who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better; at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows.
-- This man was a most ingenious 126 Gulliver's Travelsartist, and according to my direction, in three weeks fin-ished for me a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square, and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two closets, like a London bed-chamber.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I, hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,' said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair-cutting chamber at twilight.
-- FATHER AND DAUGHTERAlthough Mr. Gradgrind did not take after Blue Beard, his room was quite a blue chamber in its abundance of blue books.
-- For the rest, she knew that after office-hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow.
-- The same evening, Mrs. Sparsit, in her chamber window, resting from her packing operations, looked towards her great staircase and saw Louisa still descending.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chambers were four in number--the kitchen, the workshop, where the weaving was carried on, the general sleeping chamber of the family, and the best room, to which strangers were especially invited.
-- The slow match we calculated to burn for about ten minutes, more or less, before it reached the chamber in which the great body of powder was confined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was all the chamber held, exclusive of rats and other unseen vermin, in addition to the seen vermin, the two men.
-- Now, there were many stairs and passages that she had to traverse in passing from that part of the spacious house to the chamber she had secured for her own occupation.
-- There was one traveller there, asleep, who had gone to bed very early indeed, being overpowered by fatigue; but it was a large chamber with two beds in it, and space enough for twenty.
-- The more practical of its inmates abided by the tradition of a murder; the gentler and more imaginative inhabitants, including the whole of the tender sex, were loyal to the legend of a young lady of former times closely imprisoned in her chamber by a cruel father for remaining true to her own true love, and refusing to marry the suitor he chose for her.
-- She would officially succeed to the chamber she had rented so long.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big chamber was the scene of many innocent rev-els.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale.
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