brook是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小溪vt. 容忍，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：
-- This might end in a delay of many days, and Glenarvan, impatient to succeed, could brook no delay, in his eagerness to attain his object.
-- "The land which received us was only an uninhabited island, two miles broad and five long, with about thirty trees in the interior, a few meadows, and a brook of fresh water, which fortunately never dried up.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The marsh birds twittered and swarmed about the brook and upon the bushes that glittered with dew and cast long shadows.
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 crossing a low vale, through which a gushing brook meandered, he suddenly ascended a hill, so steep and difficult of ascent, that the sisters were compelled to alight in order to follow.
-- You see before you a chief of the great Mohican Sagamores!Once his family could chase their deer over tracts of country wider than that which belongs to the Albany Patteroon, without crossing brook or hill that was not their own; but what is left of their descendant?
-- They had proceeded only a hundred yards from the works, when the little array which attended the French gen-eral to the conference was seen issuing from the hollow way which formed the bed of a brook that ran between the bat-teries of the besiegers and the fort.
-- False trails and sudden turnings were frequent, wherever a brook or the formation of the ground rendered them feasible; but his pursuers were rarely de-ceived, and never failed to detect their error, before they had lost either time or distance on the deceptive track.
-- Sagamore, you will take the hillside, to the right; Uncas will bend along the brook to the left, while I will try the trail.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- The schoolhouse stood in a rather lonely but pleasant situation, just at the foot of a woody hill, with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
-- It was often his delight, after his school was dis-missed in the afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the little brook that whimpered by his school-house, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was the forest near Ingolstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook resting from my fatigue, until I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.
-- Now some ducks were sitting together quietly by a brook and taking their rest; and, whilst they were making their feathers smooth with their bills, they were having a con-fidential conversation together.
-- As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader's pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master's presence until I were sufficiently aired.
-- I continued three days feeding on oysters and lim-pets, to save my own provisions; and I fortunately found a brook of excellent water, which gave me great relief.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Courier had not approved of Mr Dorrit's staying in the house of a friend, and had preferred to take him to an hotel in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square.
-- There he went, until Brook Street stopped him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Heated and irritated as he was by his spasmodic toil at the pumps, for all his first nameless feeling of forbearance the sweating Steelkilt could but ill brook this bearing in the mate; but somehow still smothering the conflagration within him, without speaking he remained doggedly rooted to his seat, till at last the incensed Radney shook the hammer within a few inches of his face, furiously commanding him to do his bidding.
-- Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it for an abomination at the brook Kedron, as darkly set forth in the 15th chapter of the First Book of Kings.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found af-ter I came about two miles up, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little brook of running water, very fresh and good; but this being the dry season, there was hardly any water in some parts of it - at least not enough to run in any stream, so as it could be perceived.
-- On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of them, next to the higher grounds, where the water, as might be supposed, never overflowed, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and very strong stalk.
-- The next day, the sixteenth, I went up the same wayagain; and after going something further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and the savannahs cease, and the country become more woody than before.
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