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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were a large kind of "chaluts," like those on the Normandy coasts, great pockets that the waves and a chain fixed in the smaller meshes kept open.
-- At a sign from him the anchor was dropped, but the chain scarcely ran, for it was little more than a yard deep, and this spot was one of the highest points of the bank of pintadines.
-- "You are following the chain of events?"
-- I carefully noted the different depths, and thus obtained a submarine profile of the chain as it was developed under the water.
-- Some zoophytes had been fished up by the chain of the nets; they were for the most part beautiful phyctallines, belonging to the actinidian family, and among other species the phyctalis protexta, peculiar to that part of the ocean, with a little cylindrical trunk, ornamented With vertical lines, speckled with red dots, crowning a marvellous blossoming of tentacles.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, she suddenly began, in a laughing, teasing voice:"My love is a high-born lady "Gudrun, looking as if some invisible chain weighed on her hands and feet, began slowly to dance in the eurythmic manner, pulsing and fluttering rhythmically with her feet, making slower, regular gestures with her hands and arms, now spreading her arms wide, now raising them above her head, now flinging them softly apart, and lifting her face, her feet all the time beating and running to the measure of the song, as if it were some strange incantation, her white, rapt form drifting here and there in a strange impulsive rhapsody, seeming to be lifted on a breeze of incantation, shuddering with strange little runs.
-- Another night was coming on, for another night he was to be suspended in chain of physical life, over the bottomless pit of nothingness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is a swimmer, sir, this fellow a diver, Lord save us!This is a boy, sir, who had a fancy for plunging into eighteen feet of water, with his clothes on, and bringing up a blind man's dog, who was being drowned by the weight of his chain and collar, while his master stood wringing his hands upon the bank, bewailing the loss of his guide and friend.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the first moment she hazily recalled that new, wonderful world of feeling and thought which had been opened to her by that charming young man who loved her, and whom she loved, and then his inexplicable cruelty and the long chain of humiliation and suffering which followed as the direct result of that enchanting bliss, and it pained her.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then came one laughing towards me, carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me, and put it about my neck.
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