diamond是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金钢石， 钻石； 菱形，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That on the following morning Lubka (Katherine Maslova) sold to her mistress, Rosanova, a diamond ring belonging to Smelkoff, said ring she alleged to have been presented to her by said Smelkoff.
-- The indictment wound up as follows: "In view of the aforesaid the defendants, Simon Kartinkin, peasant of the village of Borkoff, thirty- three years of age; burgess Euphemia Ivanova Bochkova, forty-two years of age, and burgess Katherine Maslova, twenty-seven years of age, conspired on the 17th day of January, 188-, to administer poison to merchant Smelkoff with intent to kill and rob him, and did on said day administer to said Smelkoff poison, from which poison the said Smelkoff died, and did thereafter rob him of a diamond ring and twenty-five hundred rubles, contrary to the laws in such cases made and provided.
-- After the examination of the witnesses and the expert, and after all the unnecessary questions by the prosecutor and the attorneys, usually made with an important air, the justiciary told the jury to look at the exhibits, which consisted of an enormous ring with a diamond rosette, evidently made for the forefinger, and a glass tube containing the poison.
-- Is the peasant of the village of Barkoff, district of Krapivensk, Simon Petroff Kartinkin, thirty- three years of age, guilty of having, with the design of taking the life of Smelkoff and robbing him, administered to him poison in a glass of brandy, which caused the death of Smelkoff, and of afterward robbing him of twenty-five hundred rubles and a diamond ring?
-- First came the men convicts, all in gray trousers and long coats with diamond aces on their backs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cyrus Harding examined the reptile, and declared it not venomous, for it belonged to that species of diamond serpents which the natives of New South Wales rear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The windows were latticed in little diamond panes, that seemed to wink and blink upon the passengers as if they were dim of sight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A glass box would not be so brilliant, not so clearly visible, as a diamond box, because there would be less refraction and reflection.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center.
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