beast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 兽， 牲畜； 凶残的人， 举止粗鲁的人，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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A wild beast tamed, you called her."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the son thought to himself, 'What can such a beast as this know about the matter?'
-- Hans soon came to him-self, and got upon his legs again, sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, 'This riding is no joke, when a man has the luck to get upon a beast like this that stumbles and flings him off as if it would break his neck.
-- However, I'm off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
-- While he was trying his luck in milking, and managing the matter very clumsily, the uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome; and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down; and there he lay a long while senseless.
-- 'Now, I have got the bird,' said the tailor, and came out from behind the tree and put the rope round its neck, and then with his axe he hewed the horn out of the tree, and when all was ready he led the beast away and took it to the king.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger.
-- The beast and I were brought close together, and by our countenances diligently compared both by master and servant, who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, who was, sooth to say, quite as obstinate as the beast he bestrode, insisted on his making the desired advance.
-- MY uncle was walking about the bottom of the crater like a wild beast in a cage.
-- But soon the end of the beast approached nearer and nearer; his movements slackened visibly; his contortions almost ceased; and at last the body of the mighty snake lay an inert, dead mass on the surface of the now calm and placid waters.
-- With a strange noise, like none other I had ever heard, the beast came on.
-- Some beast larger and more ferocious even than the shark-crocodile inhabited this den.
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：
-- The utter ne-gation of natural beauty, the utter negation of the gladness of life, the utter absence of the instinct for shapely beauty which every bird and beast has, the utter death of the hu-man intuitive faculty was appalling.
-- Now she ad got to be bothered by that beast of a woman!Now she must start and fret!She had no letter from Mellors.
-- He was silent like some beast in a trap.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was waiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar expectation.
-- Precisely as a beast might approach the opened gate of his den and eye the freedom beyond, he passed those few moments in watching and peering, until the door was closed upon him.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then she could not endure the dog, a fat, cross beast who snarled and yelped at her when she made his toilet, and who lay on his back with all his legs in the air and a most idiotic expression of countenance when he wanted something to eat, which was about a dozen times a day.
-- What a selfish beast I've been!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What to do with myself at night I knew not, nor indeed where to rest, for I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me, though, as I afterwards found, there was really no need for those fears.
-- Then I took the pieces of cable which I had cut in the ship, and laid them in rows, one upon another, within the circle, between these two rows of stakes, up to the top, placing oth-er stakes in the inside, leaning against them, about two feet and a half high, like a spur to a post; and this fence was so strong, that neither man nor beast could get into it or over it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was push and jam for a minute, with grim, beast silence to prove its quality, and then it melted inward, like logs floating, and disappeared.
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