moan是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 呻吟声， 悲叹声v. 呻吟， 抱怨， 悲叹，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Trojans,' he cried, 'bid the father and mother of noble Ilioneus make moan for him in their house, for the wife also of Promachus son of Alegenor will never be gladdened by the coming of her dear husband when we Argives return with our ships from Troy.'
-- BOOK XXIII HUS did they make their moan throughout the city, Twhile the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship.
-- Never once have my eyes been closed from the day your hands took the life of my son; I have grov-elled without ceasing in the mire of my stable-yard, making moan and brooding over my countless sorrows.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops 'We see, O Kaa.'
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：
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel Hands turned partly round and with a low moan writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
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