wall是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 墙， 壁， 围墙vt. 筑墙围住， 用墙隔开，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard.
-- The steps passed along the path on the other side of the wall under which I crouched.
-- It was drifting slowly in our direction, and banked itself up like a wall on that side of us, low, but thick and well defined.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It cannot be moved; you would have to pull the wall down, it is so firmly fixed.'
-- I shall see noth-ing after this but the red brick wall of Meyer's house opposite my window.
-- I used to look out of my window at the wall of Meyer's house, and say to myself that if I could speak for a quarter of an hour I would convince the whole world, and now for once in my life I have come into contact with ... you if not with the others!And what is the result?
-- 'He talked so elo-quently about the blank wall outside his bedroom window, that I'm sure he will never support life here without it. '
-- 'Yes, I remember he boasted about the blank wall in an extraordinary way,' continued Evgenie, 'and I feel that with-out that blank wall he will never be able to die eloquently; and he does so long to die eloquently!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes, though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Jove, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honour with us.'
-- He was like a lion that some mountain shepherd has wounded, but not killed, as he is springing over the wall of a sheep-yard to attack the sheep.
-- He did not find Andromache, for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly.
-- His good housekeeper answered, 'Hector, since you bid me tell you truly, she did not go to your sisters nor to your brothers' wives, nor yet to the temple of Minerva, where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess, but she is on the high wall of Ilius, for she had heard the Trojans were being hard pressed, and that the Achaeans were in great force: she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child.'
-- Nay Hector you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig-tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that was a vision of a "fist full of money" (no less) travelling without visible agency, along by the wall at the corner of St. Michael's Lane.
-- I beat my hands on the wall with rage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stepped out of the door into the slumberous heat of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance locked again, I noticed turned the corner of the wall The crying sounded even louder out of doors.
-- It was a semi-circular space, shaped like the half of a bee-hive; and against the rocky wall that formed the inner side of it was a pile of variegated fruits, cocoa-nuts among oth-ers.
-- I looked round and saw to the right of me and a half-dozen yards in front of me a narrow gap in the wall of rock through which a ray of light slanted into the shadows.
-- The shadow of the wall lay, a yard wide and of inky blackness, at my feet.
-- Then I saw, without understanding, the cause of my phantom, a ruddy glow that came and danced and went upon the wall opposite.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner had he walked to the city wall than the mon-keys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.
-- A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the sum-merhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
-- Then from the ruined wall nearest the jungle rose up the rumbling war-shout of Baloo.
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
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