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 should like to make a chain of evidence such as twice two are four, it ought to be a direct, irrefutable proof!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shewore at her side a gentleman's gold watch, if I might judge from itssize and make, with an appropriate chain and seals; she had somelinen at her throat not unlike a shirt-collar, and things at her wristslike little shirtwristbands.
-- She would have dismissed the subject so, but I was too full of it toallow that, and insisted on telling her how it happened that I haddisgraced myself, and what a chain of accidental circumstanceshad had the theatre for its final link.
-- She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was draggingthe length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearingits heart out.
-- J. looking outof window, and barking violently at dustman, occasioned smile tooverspread features of D. (Of such slight links is chain of lifecomposed!J.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole string of trailing individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salp脙娄, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family.
-- He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
-- Boldwood then saw that the chain had been fastened across the door.
-- This he carried up the ladder, and sticking his rod through the clog at one end, allowed the other end of the chain to trail upon the ground.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and became linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded.'
-- I know not by what chain of thought the idea presented itself, but it instantly darted into my mind that the mur-derer had come to mock at my misery and taunt me with the death of Clerval, as a new incitement for me to comply with his hellish desires.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett's first thought was one of deep thankfulness that mourning forbade her wearing her precious earbobs aridthe heavy gold chain that had been Grandma Robillard's and the gold and black enameled bracelets and the garnetbrooch.
-- "No one but a gentleman of refinement and thoughtfulness would ever have thought how it broke my heart to I'll send my gold chain instead.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,--the other was on the table near her hand,--her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.
-- Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
-- "Or even," said he, "if you was helped to knocking her up a new chain for the front door,--or say a gross or two of shark-headed screws for general use,--or some light fancy article, such as a toasting-fork when she took her muffins,--or a gridiron when she took a sprat or such like--""I don't mean any present at all, Joe," I interposed.
-- He has a watch and a chain and a ring and a breast-pin and a handsome suit of clothes.
-- I took the tablets from her hand, and it trembled again, and it trembled more as she took off the chain to which the pencil was attached, and put it in mine.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he ran on into the middle of the street, with a slipper on one foot and a sock on the other; he still had on his apron, and still held the gold chain and the pincers in his hands, and so he stood gazing up at the bird, while the sun came shining brightly down on the street.
-- The bird flew down and took the gold chain in his right claw, and then he alighted again in front of the goldsmith and sang: 'My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone; My sister loved me best of all; She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!'
-- He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went 'Click clack, click clack, click clack.'
-- And when he had finished his song, he spread his wings, and with the chain in his right claw, the shoes in his left, and the millstone round his neck, he flew right away to his father's house.
-- This night twelve men will come: their faces will be 305black, and they will be dressed in chain armour.
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