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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not feel the same repugnance towards this creature which I had experienced in my encounters with the other Beast Men.
-- I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had mal-formed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.
-- I guessed the huts were some rough shelter where he and some more of these Beast People lived.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything with-out a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
-- He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs frog-eater fish-killer he shall hunt thee!Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!Go!'
-- Every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describ-ing it.
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
-- But whenever they found a sick wolf, or a wounded tiger, or bear, the monkeys would torment him, and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed.
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 said, in a voice as re-markable for the softness and sweetness of its tones, as was his person for its rare proportions; 'I may speak of these things, and be no braggart; for I have been down at both havens; that which is situate at the mouth of Thames, and is named after the capital of Old England, and that which is called 'Haven', with the addition of the word 'New'; and have seen the scows and brigantines collecting their droves, like the gathering to the ark, being outward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but never before have I beheld a beast which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: 'He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men.
-- In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in anoth-er instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
-- Then, without circumlocution or apology, first pronounced the word 'Standish,' and placing the un-known engine, already described, to his mouth, from which he drew a high, shrill sound, that was followed by an octave below, from his own voice, he commenced singing the fol-lowing words, in full, sweet, and melodious tones, that set the music, the poetry, and even the uneasy motion of his illtrained beast at defiance; 'How good it is, O see, And how it pleaseth well, Together e'en in unity, For brethren so to dwell.
-- I will not deny, however, but the horses cowered when I passed them, as though they scented the wolves; and a wolf is a beast that is apt to hover about an Indian ambushment, craving the offals of the deer the savages kill.'
-- Then, suddenly lifting up his voice, amid the eternal din of the waters, he sang aloud: 'First born of Egypt, smite did he, Of mankind, and of beast also: O, Egypt!wonders sent 'midst thee, On Pharaoh and his servants too!'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're the most loathsome beast that it's ever been my misfortune to meet.
-- They were sullen with unawaited dangers, and to eat them might turn a man to beast or god.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily, they found there, neither a formidable wild beast nor a dangerous native, but merely half a dozen mocking and singing birds, known as mountain pheasants.
-- However, no wild beast showed itself, and it was probable that these animals frequented rather the thick forests in the south; but the settlers had the disagreeable surprise of seeing Top stop before a snake of great size, measuring from fourteen to fifteen feet in length.
-- "But, Pencroft," replied Neb, "it wasn't our fault that the beast got away; as I tell you, we had turned it over on its back!"
-- "Certainly," said Pencroft, "a beast of burden would be very useful to us until the captain has made a steam cart, or even an engine, for some day we shall have a railroad from Granite House to Port Balloon, with a branch line to Mount Franklin!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now I felt like a beast in a trap, whose enemy would come upon him soon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Commander Farragut thought, and with reason, that it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun (perhaps because there was not enough water for him!suggested the greater part of the crew).
-- "No, sir," replied Ned Land; "because we shall not take that beast easily."
-- The chase began again, and the captain, leaning towards me, said:"I will pursue that beast till my frigate bursts up."
-- I wished the beast would exhaust itself, and not be insensible to fatigue like a steam engine.
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