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."
-- Next minute the unfortunate beast leaped into the air, and fell down again completely ripped up.
-- The beast dropped forward, and Robert rose unhurt.
-- "The beast must have broken some blood vessels," said Glenarvan.
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：
-- Uncle and nephew have been murdered the one frightened to death by the very sight of a beast which he thought to be supernatural, the other driven to his end in his wild flight to escape from it.
-- I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground, and worry at his throat.
-- 'Driving back in the evening from Coombe Tracey he was in time to get his hound, to treat it with his infernal paint, and to bring the beast round to the gate at which he had rea-son to expect that he would find the old gentleman waiting.
-- It is very probable, therefore, that in the absence of his master it was he who cared for the hound, though he may never have known the purpose for which the beast was used.
-- That Sir Henry should have been exposed to this is, I must confess, a reproach to my management of the case, but we had no means of foreseeing the terrible and paralyzing spectacle which the beast presented, nor could we predict the fog which enabled him to burst upon us at such short notice.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And what an impertinent beast you are!'
-- The worst of it all was, though, that the beast Zaleshoff got all the credit of it!I was short and abominably dressed, and stood and stared in her face and never said a word, because I was shy, like an ass!And there was he all in the fashion, pomaded and dressed out, with a smart tie on, bowing and scraping; and I bet anything she took him for me all the while!
-- 'He set a dog on me in Moscow, abloodhound, a terrible beast that chased me all down the street.'
-- I looked at the beast well; it was brown in colour and had a shell; it was a crawling kind of reptile, about eight inches long, and narrowed down from the head, which was about a couple of fingers in width, to the end of the tail, which came to a fine point.
-- Out of its trunk, about a couple of inches be-low its head, came two legs at an angle of forty-five degrees, each about three inches long, so that the beast looked like a trident from above.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As sheep dogs that watch their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain for-est towards them forthwith there is a hue and cry of dogs and men, and slumber is broken even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked night, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans.
-- Past these did they fly, the one in front and the other giving chase behind him: good was the man that fled, but better far was he that followed after, and swiftly indeed did they run, for the prize was no mere beast for sacrifice or bull-ock's hide, as it might be for a common foot-race, but they ran for the life of Hector.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It's a beast of a country," said the Voice.
-- She came in, purring the poor beast was starving and I gave her some milk.
-- After I'd given the stuff to bleach the blood and done certain other things to her, I gave the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came back again with the boiled mutton, and I was so excited by the appetising smell of it that I forgot the noise of the beast that had troubled me.
-- Was it a beast or was it a man?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Woe to the one who called him Polendina!He became as wild as a beast and no one could soothe him.
-- The Marionette heard, close behind him, the labored breathing of the beast who was fast on his trail, and now and again even felt his hot breath blow over him.
-- The strangest thing of all was that those twenty-four donkeys, instead of being iron-shod like any other beast of burden, had on their feet laced shoes made of leather, just like the ones boys wear.
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