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：
-- But if these mountains had presented the difficulties of the giant of the Swiss Alps, not one of the travelers could have crossed the great chain of the New World.
-- They seemed to meet together and cross the chain of the Andes.
-- The first extends from the chain of the Andes, and stretches over an extent of 250 miles covered with stunted trees and bushes; the second 450 miles is clothed with magnificent herbage, and stops about 180 miles from Buenos Ayres; from this point to the sea, the foot of the traveler treads over immense prairies of lucerne and thistles, which constitute the third division of the Pampas.
-- At noon they passed the deserted fort of Tapalquem, the first of the chain of forts which defend the southern frontiers from Indian marauders.
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：
-- To-morrow morning I shall find my way to Coombe Tracey, and if I can see this Mrs. Laura Lyons, of equivocal reputation, a long step will have been made towards clearing one incident in this chain of myster-ies.
-- If you can muzzle that one and put him on a chain I'll be ready to swear you are the greatest detective of all time.'
-- 'I think I will muzzle him and chain him all right if you will give me your help.'
-- In one of these a staple and chain with a quantity of gnawed bones showed where the animal had been confined.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wore a steel watch chain and from this chain there hung a silver Geneva watch.
-- The prince took down the chain and opened the door.
-- There was a narrow pierglass against the wall, and a chandelier adorned with lustres hung by a bronze chain from the ceiling.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hangs me a golden chain from heaven, and lay hold of it all of you, gods and goddesses together tug as you will, you will not drag Jove the supreme counsel-lor from heaven to earth; but were I to pull at it myself I should draw you up with earth and sea into the bargain, then would I bind the chain about some pinnacle of Olym-pus and leave you all dangling in the mid firmament.
-- About his shoulders he threw his sword, studded with bosses of gold; and the scab-bard was of silver with a chain of gold wherewith to hang it.
-- I fastened two anvils on to your feet, and bound your hands in a chain of gold which none might break, and you hung in mid-air among the clouds.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One new elephant had nearly grubbed up his picket, and Big Toomai took off Kala Nag's leg chain and shackled that elephant fore-foot to hind-foot, but slipped a loop of grass string round Kala Nag's leg, and told him to remember that he was tied fast.
-- Once they started and put their ears forward when they heard the chinking of a leg iron in the forest, but it was Pudmini, Petersen Sahib's pet elephant, her chain snapped short off, grunting, snuffling up the hillside.
-- I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won't go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
-- And almost stepping on the chain was another battery mule, calling wildly for 'Bil-ly.'
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：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
-- But, in addition to the never-ceasing anxiety on account of Alice, a fresh-er though feebler interest in the fate of Uncas assisted to chain him to the spot.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no cliff, and the shore offered no resistance to the ocean but a chain of irregular hillocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They will shut me up in a stone room, dark and cold, and chain me up to the wall, Nell flog me with whips, and never let me see thee more!'
-- In the height of his ecstasy, Mr Quilp had like to have met with a disagreeable check, for rolling very near a broken dog-kennel, there leapt forth a large fierce dog, who, but that his chain was of the shortest, would have given him a disagreeable salute.
-- The dog tore and strained at his chain with starting eyes and furious bark, but there the dwarf lay, snapping his fingers with gestures of defiance and contempt.
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