prick是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 刺伤， 刺痛， 刺孔，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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
-- "The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these: 'It's not our fault; we didn't want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was boy's business; he might have known me before this; I told him not to prick the buffalo; I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw; ain't those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men?
-- "A nice spot," cried Flask; "just let me prick him there once."
-- This lucky salvation was cheaply purchased by the loss of Queequeg's hat, who, while standing in the bows to prick the fugitive whales, had his hat taken clean from his head by the air-eddy made by the sudden tossing of a pair of broad flukes close by.
-- But a day or two after, you look about you, and prick your ears in this self-same ship; and were it not for the tell-tale boats and try-works, you would all but swear you trod some silent merchant vessel, with a most scrupulously neat commander.
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：
-- 'You prick up your ears?'
-- Porfiry Petrovitch had turned to go, but he seemed to prick up his ears at this.
-- They are the sort of people that would feel bound to return money and presents if they broke it off; and they would find it hard to do it!And their conscience would prick them: how can we dismiss a man who has hitherto been so gener-ous and delicate?芒聙娄.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The victim of habit, when he has neglected the thing which it was his custom to do, feels a little scratching in the brain, a little irritating something which comes of being out of the rut, and imagines it to be the prick of conscience, the still, small voice that is urging him ever to righteousness.
-- Forgetting the weariness of the streets and the degradation of search, he would sometimes prick up his ears.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And their happiness in their love seemed to imply a disagreeable slur on those who would have liked to feel the same and could not--and they felt a prick of conscience.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near bymade Gerald prick up his ears.
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