rock是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 岩石， 石块v. 摇， 摇动，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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HEARING THE LAST OF ITMrs. Sparsit, lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in Mr. Bounderby's retreat, kept such a sharp look-out, night and day, under her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like a couple of lighthouses on an iron-bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners from that bold rock her Roman nose and the dark and craggy region in its neighbourhood, but for the placidity of her manner.
-- I have told him what has been done against him,' said Rachael, throwing off all distrust as a rock throws of the sea, 'and he will be here, at furthest, in two days.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 37 THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET--BLASTING THE ROCK CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS CHAPTER 41 HUNGER CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT CHAPTER 43 DAYLIGHT AT LAST CHAPTER 44 THE JOURNEY ENDED CHAPTER 1 MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.
-- After some hours we came in sight of a solitary rock in the ocean, forming a mighty vault, through which the foaming waves poured with intense fury.
-- Every now and then a spur of rock came down through the arid ground, leaving us scarcely room to pass.
-- Basalt is a brown rock of igneous origin.
-- Long before the existence of volcanoes, it was composed of a solid body of massive trap rock lifted bodily and slowly out of the sea, by the action of the centrifugal force at work in the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'At least Bolshevism has got down to rock bottom,' said Charlie.
-- 'Rock bottom!The bottom that has no bottom!The Bol-shevists will have the finest army in the world in a very short time, with the finest mechanical equipment.
-- When the rock and refuse of the underworld had burned and given off its sulphur, it turned bright pink, shrimp-coloured on dry days, darker, crab-coloured on wet.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if awaked by the stir, Hannah started out of her sleep, hurried to the bed, looked at Beth, felt her hands, listened at her lips, and then, throwing her apron over her head, sat down to rock to and fro, exclaiming, under her breath, 'The fever's turned, she's sleepin' nat'ral, her skin's damp, and she breathes easy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
-- And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake, and causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a skiff caught nigh the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer.
-- In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.
-- Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.
-- Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What the shore was, whether rock or sand, whether steep or shoal, we knew not.
-- But that which surprised me most was, that the ship was lifted off in the night from the sand where she lay by the swelling of the tide, and was driven up almost as far as the rock which I at first mentioned, where I had been so bruised by the wave dashing me against it.
-- On the one side of the rock there was a hollow place, worn a little way in, like the en-trance or door of a cave but there was not really any cave or way into the rock at all.
-- I knocked pieces into the wall of the rock to hang my guns and all things that would hang up; so that, had my cave been to be seen, it looked like a general magazine of all necessary things; and had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great.
-- - This wall being described before, I purposely omit what was said in the journal; it is sufficient to observe, that I was no less time than from the 2nd of January to the 14th of April working, finishing, and perfecting this wall, though it was no more than about twenty-four yards in length, be-ing a half-circle from one place in the rock to another place, about eight yards from it, the door of the cave being in the centre behind it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just got in from Rock Island.
-- She was too wrought up to care to go down to eat, too pensive to do aught but rock and sing.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim he never let on but what it was only just a piece of rock or something like that that's always getting into bread, you know; but after that he never bit into nothing but what he jabbed his fork into it in three or four places first.
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