flare是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 熊熊燃烧, 突然燃烧, 火光; v. /n. (衣裙等) 张开，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：
-- As these visions passed rapidly through his mind, every now and then he was roused by the crackling of the fire, or sparks flying out, or some little jet of flame would suddenly flare up and illumine the faces of his slumbering companions.
-- A fresh fire had appeared, which seemed to die out now and then, and suddenly flare up again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly- burly of the fight.
-- All had then been lost and no help for it, for they would have been penned up in Ilius like sheep, had not the sire of gods and men been quick to mark, and hurled a fiery flam-ing thunderbolt which fell just in front of Diomed's horses with a flare of burning brimstone.
-- Take your horses out of their chari-ots and give them their feeds of corn; then make speed to bring sheep and cattle from the city; bring wine also and corn for your horses and gather much wood, that from dark till dawn we may burn watchfires whose flare may reach to heaven.
-- As the smoke that goes up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an island far out at sea all day long do men sally from the city and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the line of beacon-fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their ships and succour them even so did the light flare from the head of Achilles, as he stood by the trench, going beyond the wall but he aid not join the Achaeans for he heeded the charge which his mother laid upon him.
-- I cannot fight you when you flare out your flames in this way; strive with me no longer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of im-proving on his method, and hauling up men by those ropes and pulleys, to flare upon the darkness of their condition.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The colonel, thinking it all over, made up his mind not to pursue the matter further, but then for his own satisfaction proceeded to cross-examine Vronsky about his interview; and it was a long while before he could restrain his laughter, as Vronsky described how the government clerk, after subsiding for a while, would suddenly flare up again, as he recalled the details, and how Vronsky, at the last half word of conciliation, skillfully maneuvered a retreat, shoving Petritsky out before him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Stokes of St. Swithin's secretly wrote to Dr. Max Gottlieb, Director of the McGurk Institute, that the plague was ready to flare up and consume all the West Indies, and would Dr. Gottlieb do something about it?
-- In the flare of devastation Sondelius was a fiend, smashing the bewildered rats with a club, shooting at them as they fled, and singing to himself all the while the obscene chantey of Bill the Sailor.
-- Terry did not, as once he would have, flare into the details of his research, and not till evening, when they smoked before the rough fireplace of the cabin, loafing in chairs made of barrels cushioned with elk skin, could Martin coax him into confidences.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next flare came.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer, laughing; "it would flare up like tinder."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The languor ofmidday had taken hold of the gathering, but underneath lurked tempers that could rise to killing heights in a secondand flare out as quickly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, when they were all in lively anticipation of "the two villains" being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the smoke to hurry away in pursuit of them, Joe to hammer and clink for them, and all the murky shadows on the wall to shake at them in menace as the blaze rose and sank, and the red-hot sparks dropped and died, the pale afternoon outside almost seemed in my pitying young fancy to have turned pale on their account, poor wretches.
-- I lighted my fire, which burnt with a raw pale flare at that time of the morning, and fell into a doze before it.
-- Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he too was tortured with shame, and ultimate dislike, and with acute pity for her, because he did not want to meet her eyes, he did not want to receive her flare of recognition.
-- Continually she glanced at Halliday, and then a black flare came over her eyes.
-- He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At some turns of the road, a pale flare on the horizon, like an exhalation from the ruin-sown land, showed that the city was yet far off; but this poor relief was rare and short-lived.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flare of the gas-jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box--rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eye-lids, wigs, scissors, looking-glasses, drapery--in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.
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