hang是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 悬挂， 垂吊； 吊死， 绞死，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：
-- Are the Mingoes upon us in earnest, or is it only one of those reptiles who hang upon the skirts of a war-party, to scalp the dead, go in, and make their boast among the squaws of the valiant deeds done on the pale faces?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.
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：
-- 'We can never hang it up,' she said.
-- And I've known men who came here to be in an office for a year, and they cursed the place, and when they went away they took their dying oath they'd hang themselves before they came back again, and in six months you'd see them land once more, and they'd tell you they couldn't live anywhere else."
-- If thou leavest me I shall hang myself on the tree that is behind the house.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Let me see,' said the boy, 'I think I'll hang him in the winder, because it's more light and cheerful, and he can see the sky there, if he looks up very much.
-- At the top of the first form the post of honour in the school was the vacant place of the little sick scholar, and at the head of the row of pegs on which those who came in hats or caps were wont to hang them up, one was left empty.
-- why cannot we push them back, only a week or two in our memories, so as to put them at once at that convenient distance whence they may be regarded either with a calm indifference or a pleasant effort of recollection!why will they hang about us, like the flavour of yesterday's wine, suggestive of headaches and lassitude, and those good intentions for the future, which, under the earth, form the everlasting pavement of a large estate, and, upon it, usually endure until dinner-time or thereabouts!
-- The man who had been watching this fire, and whose task was ended for the present, gladly withdrew, and left them with their friend, who, spreading Nell's little cloak upon a heap of ashes, and showing her where she could hang her outer-clothes to dry, signed to her and the old man to lie down and sleep.
-- See how they hang their heads, and droop, and wither.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will sooner hang myself."
-- I would rather hang myself."
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the cocks of his hat having fallen down, he let it hang from that day forth, though it was a great annoyance when it blew.
-- He spoke to him as before, over his shoulder and in the same tone of voice, rather high, so that all the room might hear, but perfectly calm and steady: "If you do not put that knife this instant in your pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at the next assizes."
-- "You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg!You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking.
-- "Come, my fine fellow," continued the captain; "don't hang so long in stays.
-- But the dead men, sir, hang about your neck like mill-stones."
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：
-- They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot."
-- And in another second, he was singing softly to himself, and dancing a grotesque step-dance in front of her, his limbs and body shaking loose, his face flickering palely, a constant thing, whilst his feet beat a rapid mocking tattoo, and his body seemed to hang all loose and quaking in between, like a shadow.
-- If we wait, if we baulk the issue, we do but hang about the gates in undignified uneasiness.
-- It is you who can't let yourself go, it is you who hang on to yourself as if it were your only treasure.
-- And the colliers' sweethearts would, like herself, hang their heads back limp over their shoulder, and look out from the dark archway, at the close patch of yellow lights on the unseen hill in the distance, or at the vague form of trees, and at the buildings of the colliery wood-yard, in the other direction.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, my dear Mary, look here!Don't be afraid, it is but a boy yet the villain scowls so plainly in his face; would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features?"
-- It used to hang on one side, and his wife's on the other; but hers has been removed, or else you might see something of what she was.
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