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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The best- ex pedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged 25my body of that uneasy load.
-- They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards the shore, which I accordingly did; and the flying island being raised to a convenient height, the verge directly over me, a chain was let down from the lowest gal-lery, with a seat fastened to the bottom, to which I fixed myself, and was drawn up by pulleys.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, it was only by dint of bending down to her ear, and at the same time attentively watching the lips as they moved, that she could link such faint and broken sounds into any chain of connexion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But Clifford, you make eternity sound like a lid or a long, long chain that trailed after one, no matter how far one went.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One last remark,' proceeded Flora, rejecting commonplace life with a wave of her hand, 'I wish to make, one last explanation I wish to offer, there was a time ere Mr F. first paid attentions incapable of being mistaken, but that is past and was not to be, dear Mr Clennam you no longer wear a golden chain you are free I trust you may be happy, here is Papa who is always tiresome and putting in his nose everywhere where he is not wanted.'
-- Meanwhile Flora was murmuring in rapid snatches for his ear, that there was a time and that the past was a yawning gulf however and that a golden chain no longer bound him and that she revered the memory of the late Mr F. and that she should be at home to-morrow at half-past one and that the decrees of Fate were beyond recall and that she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray's-Inn Gardens at exactly four o'clock in the afternoon.
-- then one understands the partnership and sees it all, don't tell me anything about it for I know I have no claim to ask the question the golden chain that once was forged being snapped and very proper.'
-- 'Very polite of you to say so Arthur cannot remember Mr Clennam until the word is out, such is the habit of times for ever fled, and so true it is that oft in the stilly night ere slumber's chain has bound people, fond memory brings the light of other days around people very polite but more polite than true I am afraid, for to go into the machinery business without so much as sending a line or a card to papa I don't say me though there was a time but that is past and stern reality has now my gracious never mind does not look like it you must confess.'
-- 'Mr Dorrit,' said Flora, 'you are very kind in giving me permission and highly natural it seems to me that you should be kind for though more stately I perceive a likeness filled out of course but a likeness still, the object of my intruding is my own without the slightest consultation with any human being and most decidedly not with Arthur pray excuse me Doyce and Clennam I don't know what I am saying Mr Clennam solus for to put that individual linked by a golden chain to a purple time when all was ethereal out of any anxiety would be worth to me the ransom of a monarch not that I have the least idea how much that would come to but using it as the total of all I have in the world and more.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strongest and most reliable hold which the ship has upon the whale when moored alongside, is by the flukes or tail; and as from its greater density that part is relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface; so that with the hand you cannot get at it from the boat, in order to put the chain round it.
-- By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes.
-- Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-jets were up-playing and sparkling in the noon-day air.
-- They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I told him I looked upon him as a man sent by Heaven to deliver me, and that the whole transaction seemed to be a chain of won-ders; that such things as these were the testimonies we had of a secret hand of Providence governing the world, and an evidence that the eye of an infinite Power could search into the remotest corner of the world, and send help to the mis-erable whenever He pleased.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then knew that this was a chain which bound his feet.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was one where a young lady was at a window looking up at the moon, and tears running down her cheeks; and she had an open letter in one hand with black sealing wax showing on one edge of it, and she was mashing a locket with a chain to it against her mouth, and under- neath the picture it said 'And Art Thou Gone Yes Thou Art Gone Alas.'
-- The chain fell down, and we opened the door and went in, and shut it, and struck a match, and see the shed was only built against a cabin and hadn't no connection with it; and there warn't no floor to the shed, nor nothing in it but some old rusty played-out hoes and spades and picks and a crippled plow.
-- Jim could a got out of that window- hole before this, only there wouldn't be no use trying to travel with a ten-foot chain on his leg.
-- Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose?'
-- 'Why, you just said a body could lift up the bed- stead and slip the chain off.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A long iron chain was tied to the collar.
-- The other end of the chain was nailed to the wall.
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