flame是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 火焰, 火舌，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：
-- As these visions passed rapidly through his mind, every now and then he was roused by the crackling of the fire, or sparks flying out, or some little jet of flame would suddenly flare up and illumine the faces of his slumbering companions.
-- Then stooping down and raising himself with a rapid motion, he made a violent current of air with his poncho, which made the wood take fire, and soon a bright flame roared in the improvised brasier.
-- In a moment, as if some fireworks were being ignited, the flame ran along the west side of the OMBU; the dead wood and nests of dried grass, and the whole sap, which was of a spongy texture, supplied food for its devouring activity.
-- They were all silent, troubled, and terrified, as they watched branch after branch shrivel, and crack, and writhe in the flame like living serpents, and then drop into the swollen torrent, still red and gleaming, as it was borne swiftly along on the rapid current.
-- They looked like tall factory chimneys, for the flame had completely hollowed them out their whole length.
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：
-- It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it just the one straight yel-low flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
-- Even now, in the stillness of death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with fire.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No sooner did a tongue of flame burst out than she threw the packet of notes upon it.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the flame had died down, he spread the embers, laid the spits on top of them, lifting them up and setting them upon the spit-racks; and he sprinkled them with salt.
-- On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse-hair that nod-ded menacingly above it; then he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears, and the gleam of his armour shot from him as a flame into the firmament, while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of rich Mycene.
-- Now the Trojans followed Hector son of Priam in close array like a storm-cloud or flame of fire, fighting with might and main and raising the cry battle; for they deemed that they should take the ships of the Achaeans and kill all their chiefest heroes then and there.
-- Now when the Trojans saw Idomeneus coming on like a flame of fire, him and his squire clad in their richly wrought armour, they shouted and made towards him all in a body, and a furious hand-to-hand fight raged under the ships' sterns.
-- On this he made his way to the front like a flame of fire, clad in his gleaming armour, and crying with a loud voice.
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：
-- He had just fan-cied they were cruelly deserted by their scout, as a stream of flame issued from the rock beneath them, and a fierce yell, blended with a shriek of agony, announced that the mes-senger of death sent from the fatal weapon of Hawkeye, had found a victim.
-- The lightning is not quicker than was the flame from the rifle of Hawkeye; the limbs of the victim trembled and contracted, the head fell to the bosom, and the body parted the foam-ing waters like lead, when the element closed above it, in its ceaseless velocity, and every vestige of the unhappy Huron was lost forever.
-- As the flame arose, its power exceeded that of the parting day, and as-sisted to render objects at the same time more distinct and more hideous.
-- Occasionally the air breathed through the crevices of the hut, and the low flame that fluttered about the embers of the fire threw their wavering light on the person of the sullen recluse.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A latent gift might reveal itself on acquaintance with the painters and writers whose society his wife sought; or domestic incompatability might turn him upon himself; a love affair might fan into bright flame a fire which I could have shown smouldering dimly in his heart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little spluttering was heard and a tiny blue flame sprang up, making a choking smoke.
-- Herbert had just thrown on an armful of dry wood, and the flame cast a bright light into the darkest parts of the passage.
-- No smoke escaped from its sides; not a flame could be seen in the dark hollows; not a roar, not a mutter, no trembling even issued from this black well, which perhaps reached far into the bowels of the earth.
-- The flame then went out with a slight hiss, which showed that it had reached the water, that is to say, the level of the sea.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like the flame which welds the loosened particles into a solid mass, his words united those floating wisps of feeling which she had felt, but never believed, concerning her possible ability, and made them into a gaudy shred of hope.
-- A real flame of love is a subtle thing.
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