chain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 链(条) ； (pl. ) 镣铐； 一连串v. 用链条拴住，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchant's cellar.
-- The chain he drew was clasped about his middle.
-- At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
-- Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands.
-- 'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Pardon, Monseigneur; he swung by the chain of the shoe the drag.'
-- The accursed was already under the carriage with some half-dozen particular friends, pointing out the chain with his blue cap.
-- The half-dozen who were peering at the chain were still among the wheels, like sheep; the wheels turned so sudden-ly that they were lucky to save their skins and bones; they had very little else to save, or they might not have been so fortunate.
-- Then she turned out the contents of the bowl of money for the second time, and be-gan knotting them up in her handkerchief, in a chain of separate knots, for safe keeping through the night.
-- Madame enforced the conclusion of this piece of advice by striking her little counter with her chain of money as if she knocked its brains out, and then gathering the heavy handkerchief under her arm in a serene manner, and ob-serving that it was time to go to bed.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If so, I can do it"; and then he rattled a whole bunch of valuable seals that hung to his watch, and he stuck his hand in the thick gold chain he wore around his neck nay!how all his fingers glittered with diamond rings; and then all were pure gems.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 3 When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the office.
-- He still lay down, trying to sleep, though he felt there was not the smallest hope of it, and kept repeating stray words from some chain of thought, trying by this to check the rising flood of fresh images.
-- "Of course," he said to himself, as though a logical, continuous, and clear chain of reasoning had brought him to an indubitable conclusion.
-- During all this early time they had a peculiarly vivid sense of tension, as it were, a tugging in opposite directions of the chain by which they were bound.
-- "There's one thing ...that old love affair of Varenka's," she said, a natural chain of ideas bringing her to this point.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
-- The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending south-eastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.
-- The principal chain of the Vindhias was crossed by eight in the evening, and another halt was made on the northern slope, in a ruined bungalow.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bert Tozer, her brother; squirrel teeth, a gold eye-glass chain over his ear, cashier and all the rest of the staff in the one-room bank owned by his father.
-- He had buck teeth, and on his eye-glasses was a gold chain leading to a dainty hook behind his left ear.
-- They talked gravely or frivolously of their work, the one sort of work that, since it becomes part of the chain of discovered fact, is eternal, however forgotten the worker's name.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I've brought something to pawn here,' and he drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
-- He was fashionably dressed and foppish, with his hair parted in the middle, well combed and pomaded, and wore a number of rings on his well-scrubbed fingers and a gold chain on his waistcoat.
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