plague是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 瘟疫; 麻烦, 祸患，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.
-- To have heard him asking Sondelius about his experience in plague epidemics, one would have believed that Martin found the Black Death delightful.
-- At the microscope, under a lone light, fishing out with a glass pipette drawn fine as a hair one single plague bacillus.
-- He had been through several epidemics, and he viewed plague with affectionate hatred.
-- In fact, noted Inchcape Jones, nothing did exist in St. Hubert except malaria, dengue, and a general beastly dullness, and if Red Legs like Kellett longed to die of plague and rat-bite fever, why should decent people object?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia.
-- The plague spread and moved further and further.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a story that one of the pits dug for the dead in the timeof the Great Plague was hereabout; and a blighting influenceseemed to have proceeded from it over the whole place.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him.'
-- 'Very well; I will not plague you any more.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "We've no lambing-hut here, as I used to have at Norcombe," said Gabriel, "and 'tis such a plague to bring the weakly ones to a house.
-- By reason of the density of the interwoven foliage overhead, it was gloomy there at cloudless noontide, twilight in the evening, dark as midnight at dusk, and black as the ninth plague of Egypt at midnight.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- answered the sparrow as she flew away; 'now will I plague and punish thee at thy own house.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they de-termined to starve me; or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and probably spread through the whole kingdom.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have had the plague continually, ever since I have been here.
-- I came here as well as ever I was in my life; but to suspect me of the plague is to give me the plague.
-- In every thoroughfare, up almost every alley, and down almost every turning, some doleful bell was throbbing, jerking, tolling, as if the Plague were in the city and the dead-carts were going round.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't believe any of you suffer as I do,' cried Amy, 'for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.'
-- 'Let him be a musician if he wants to, and not plague his life out sending him to college, when he hates to go.'
-- It's the plague of my life and I was a goose to wear it.'
-- He pulled her hair whenever she came near him, upset his bread and milk to plague her when she had newly cleaned his cage, made Mop bark by pecking at him while Madam dozed, called her names before company, and behaved in all respects like an reprehensible old bird.
-- 'Please don't plague me, Jo, I've told you I don't care much about him, and there isn't to be anything said, but we are all to be friendly, and go on as before.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We can all plague and punish one another.
-- Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.'
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