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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- replied one of the sailors, "why, it's a piece of rock the beast swallowed by way of ballast."
-- It is at Cape Froward that the American continent actually terminates, for Cape Horn is nothing but a rock sunk in the sea in latitude 52 degrees.
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
-- The child had not only met his death on the mountain, but found a grave which some enormous rock had sealed forever.
-- The extremity of the calcined bough had struck some hillock, and never were sailors more glad; the rock to them was the port.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seems, however, that there must have been some short cut for those who knew it, for before I had reached the road I was astounded to see Miss Stapleton sitting upon a rock by the side of the track.
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
-- At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.
-- Holmes struck his hand passionately upon the rock in front of us and stamped his feet in his impatience.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the sea-shore, the rock Olene and Alesium.
-- This millstone of a rock broke Hec-tor's shield inwards and threw him down on his back with the shield crushing him under it, but Apollo raised him at once.
-- Now there is a certain town, Thryoessa, perched upon a rock on the river Alpheus, the border city Pylus.
-- The Trojans advanced in a dense body, with Hector at their head pressing right on as a rock that comes thunder-ing down the side of some mountain from whose brow the winter torrents have torn it; the foundations of the dull thing have been loosened by floods of rain, and as it bounds headlong on its way it sets the whole forest in an uproar; it swerves neither to right nor left till it reaches level ground, but then for all its fury it can go no further even so eas-ily did Hector for a while seem as though he would career through the tents and ships of the Achaeans till he had reached the sea in his murderous course; but the closely ser-ried battalions stayed him when he reached them, for the sons of the Achaeans thrust at him with swords and spears pointed at both ends, and drove him from them so that he staggered and gave ground; thereon he shouted to the Tro-jans, 'Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians, fighters in close combat, stand firm: the Achaeans have set themselves as a wall against me, but they will not check me for long; they will give ground before me if the mightiest of the gods, the thundering spouse of Juno, has indeed inspired my onset.'
-- As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they cannot find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I recalled a schoolboy expedient against big dogs, and twisted the rock into my handkerchief, and gave this a turn round my wrist.
-- Beyond, the rock opened again upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand the light smote down through narrow ways into the central gloom.
-- The place was a narrow passage between high walls of lava, a crack in the knotted rock, and on either side interwoven heaps of sea-mat, palm-fans, and reeds leaning against the rock formed rough and impenetrably dark dens.
-- I looked round and saw to the right of me and a half-dozen yards in front of me a narrow gap in the wall of rock through which a ray of light slanted into the shadows.
-- I clambered up the narrow cleft in the rock and came out upon the sulphur on the westward side of the village of the Beast Men.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Akela from his rock would cry: 'Ye know the Law ye know the Law.
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 said the rock was worse than the logs; he said it would take him such a pison long time to dig them into a rock he wouldn't ever get out.
-- We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After swimming for a long time, Pinocchio saw a large rock in the middle of the sea, a rock as white as marble.
-- High on the rock stood a little Goat bleating and calling and beckoning to the Marionette to come to her.
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