herd是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 兽群, 牲口群, 牧人; v. 把…赶到一起, 成群，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：
-- The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more chil-dren there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
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：
-- Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flamin-ius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's particulary nice if Pava's daughter should be a red-spotted cow, and all the herd will take after her, and the other three, too!Splendid!To go out with my wife and visitors to meet the herd.... My wife says, Kostya and I looked after that calf like a child.'
-- The herd of improved cows such as Pava, the whole land ploughed over and enriched, the nine level fields surrounded with hedges, the two hundred and forty acres heavily manured, the seed sown in drills, and all the rest of it--it was all splendid if only the work had been done for themselves, or for themselves and comrades --people in sympathy with them.
-- That day less than ever was his attention turned upon the familiar, habitual surroundings, the stage, the noise, all the familiar, uninteresting, particolored herd of spectators in the packed theater.
-- "Put it with the herd of oxen," he said to the herdsman, who was waiting for him at the steps with some question.
-- He turned over on the other side, and leaning on his elbow, fell to gazing into the distance at a herd of cattle crossing over to the river.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam.
-- "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!Parbleu!I should like to know if Mr. Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme!And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"
-- The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Probably not--and until some genius like yourself, Arrowsmith, can herd together a few hundred people with exactly identical cases of erysipelas, it probably never will be tried!Meanwhile I trust that you other gentlemen, who perhaps lack Mr. Arrowsmith's profound scientific attainments and the power to use such handy technical terms as 'control,' will, merely on my feeble advice, continue to use ichthyol!"
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with an air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity to which exhibition people were expected to say "Poor child!"
-- In a paddock in the same direction was a herd of heifers, and the forms of these were visible at this moment in the act of galloping about in the wildest and maddest confusion, flinging their heels and tails high into the air, their heads to earth.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less a one than the creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At night when he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to the calf: 'If you can stand there and eat your fill, you can also go on your four legs; I don't care to drag you home again in my arms.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger.
-- That he had once, by way of ex-periment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a ser-vant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.'
-- On this festival, the servants drive a herd of Yahoos into the field, laden with hay, and oats, and milk, for a repast to the Houyhnhnms; after which, these brutes are imme-diately driven back again, for fear of being noisome to the assembly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, they were truly gigantic animals, a whole herd of mastodons, not fossils, but living, and exactly like those discovered in 1801, on the marshy banks of the great Ohio, in North America.
-- Yes--not more than a quarter of a mile off, leaning against the trunk of an enormous tree, was a human being--a Proteus of these subterranean regions, a new son of Neptune keeping this innumerable herd of mastodons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Too depressed to associate with the herd in the yard, who got together to forget their cares; too retiring and too unhappy to join in the poor socialities of the tavern; he kept his own room, and was held in distrust.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next moment, relieved in great part from the downward strain at the bows, the boats gave a sudden bounce upwards, as a small icefield will, when a dense herd of white bears are scared from it into the sea.
-- Standing at the mast-head of my ship during a sunrise that crimsoned sky and sea, I once saw a large herd of whales in the east, all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with peaked flukes.
-- And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses; when all these conceits had passed through his brain, Ahab's brow was left gaunt and ribbed, like the black sand beach after some stormy tide has been gnawing it, without being able to drag the firm thing from its place.
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