shell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 壳, 剥壳，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "As well, by your honour's leave, as a hermit-crab in the shell of a whelk," said Conseil.
-- No defects to be afraid of, for the double shell is as firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind to carry away; no boilers to burst; no fire to fear, for the vessel is made of iron, not of wood; no coal to run short, for electricity is the only mechanical agent; no collision to fear, for it alone swims in deep water; no tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity.
-- I noticed that its iron plates, slightly overlaying each other, resembled the shell which clothes the bodies of our large terrestrial reptiles.
-- I plunged into the study of the shell treasures hidden behind the glasses.
-- "A shell is not worth the life of a man," said I.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell is cracked.
-- But as the fight went on, and all that he had been and was continued to be destroyed, so that life was a hollow shell all round him, roaring and clattering like the sound of the sea, a noise in which he participated externally, and inside this hollow shell was all the darkness and fearful space of death, he knew he would have to find reinforcements, otherwise he would collapse inwards upon the great dark void which circled at the centre of his soul.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends, a feature which is not remarked in the common mussel.
-- He found, a hundred feet off, a limpid stream, which seemed to have been greatly increased by the rains, and which filtered through the sand; but nothing in which to put the water, not even a shell among the downs.
-- Not a shell was broken.
-- It was a turtle of the species Midas, the edible green turtle, so called from the color both of its shell and fat.
-- Pencroft had kept his promise, and a light boat, the shell of which was joined together by the flexible twigs of the crejimba, had been constructed in five days.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he by no means diminished the impression he had just produced, for he ate hard eggs, shell and all, devoured gigantic prawns with the heads and tails on, chewed tobacco and water-cresses at the same time and with extraordinary greediness, drank boiling tea without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature.
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