captive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 俘虏, 迷恋者; 被俘虏的, 被拴住的，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：
-- The captive thinks oftener of escaping than the jailer of preventing his flight, and hence we hear of frequent and wonderful escapes.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bondswomen whom Achilles and Patroclus had taken captive screamed aloud for grief, beating their breasts, and with their limbs failing them for sorrow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly, by turns, at Mr. Lorry and at Defarge, some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the fore-head, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him.
-- In the exercise of his skill, the appearance and the story of the Bastille Captive removed him from all other men.
-- Little Lucie sat by her grandfather with her hands clasped through his arm: and he, in a tone not rising much above a whisper, began to tell her a story of a great and powerful Fairy who had opened a prison-wall and let out a captive who had once done the Fairy a service.
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：
-- He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably propor-tioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolu-tion, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.
-- Now and then Duncan caught a glimpse of a light form cleav-ing the air in some desperate bound, and he rather hoped than believed that the captive yet retained the command of his astonishing powers of activity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again the dreadedSunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like aguarded captive brought to a condemned service.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath them a captive sheep lay panting, quickening its pants as misgiving merged in terror, till it quivered like the hot landscape outside.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Felix rejected his offers with con-tempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was allowed to visit her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully re-ward his toil and hazard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If Bounderby had been a Conqueror, and Mrs. Sparsit a captive Princess whom he took about as a feature in his state-processions, he could not have made a greater flourish with her than he habitually did.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim.
-- Thus, now boasting, now despairing, in either fit a captive with the jail-rot upon him, and the impurity of his prison worn into the grain of his soul, he revealed his degenerate state to his affectionate child.
-- Miss Dorrit not only haughtily moved through it in her own proper person, but haughtily, even Ostentatiously, led Mr Sparkler through it too: seeming to say to them all, 'If I think proper to march among you in triumphal procession attended by this weak captive in bonds, rather than a stronger one, that is my business.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was delighted, inquired who lived in this old castle, and was told that several captive princesses were kept there by a spell, and spun all day to lay up money to buy their liberty.
-- When he went out in the morning he was bewildered by small commissions for the captive mamma, if he came gaily in at night, eager to embrace his family, he was quenched by a 'Hush!They are just asleep after wor-rying all day.'
-- This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for 'Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recol-lections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand however grand and wonderful, now quit it; and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages.
-- The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom down; and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain.
-- A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hear you,' said the doctor, giving his captive a hearty shake.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They think it no more a crime to kill a captive taken in war than we do to kill an ox; or to eat human flesh than we do to eat mutton.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here a captive heart busted.
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