grain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 谷物， 谷类； 颗粒， 细粒，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus 45engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed just one grain of cough.
-- When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
-- At this second interchange of the Christian name, Ma-dame Defarge, still using her toothpick with profound composure, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
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：
-- And now it worked much more evil than before; for some of these piec-es were hardly so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world, and when they got into people's eyes, there they stayed; and then people saw everything perverted, or only had an eye for that which was evil.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tradition is kept up here that you are the best of skaters," she said, with her little black-gloved hand brushing a grain of hoarfrost off her muff.
-- "It's tea, not hay!It's like scattering grain to the ducks, the way they pick it up!"
-- He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected.
-- In those cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth.
-- Again she recalled what the young peasant woman had said, and again she was revolted at the thought; but she could not help admitting that there was a grain of brutal truth in the words.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was astonished by everything in the world that did not bear on his grain elevator, his creamery, his tiny bank, the United Brethren Church, and the careful conduct of an Overland car.
-- Bert Tozer, Albert R. Tozer, cashier and vice-president of the Wheatsylvania State Bank, auditor and vice-president of the Tozer Grain and Storage Company, treasurer and vice-president of the Star Creamery, was not in the least afflicted by the listening dubiousness of his parents.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he was half way to safety, and he un-derstood it; it was less risky because there was a great crowd of people, and he was lost in it like a grain of sand.
-- That's how I ought to have acted if I had a grain of suspicion of you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite as cadaverous as ithad looked in the window, though in the grain of it there was thattinge of red which is sometimes to be observed in the skins of red-haired people.
-- It's muchagainst the grain with me, I assure you, Copperfield, to be con-cerned in anything so unpleasant; but really, as it is, we're allmixing ourselves up with what oughtn't to be.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ten minutes later his lonely figure might have been seen dragging four large water-proof coverings across the yard, and soon two of these heaps of treasure in grain were covered snug two cloths to each.
-- This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the hasty conjecture that Troy was drowned.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This prudent step had led to success; the foundations of his fortune were laid in the time of the Scarcity (real or artificial), when the price of grain of all kinds rose enormously in Paris.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even now the Southern ranks might be falling like grain before a hailstorm, but the Cause for whichthey fought could never fall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
-- It was the one grain of relief I had.
-- This effect on my anxious fancy was partly referable, no doubt, to his old face and manner growing more familiar to me; but I believe too that he dragged one of his legs as if there were still a weight of iron on it, and that from head to foot there was Convict in the very grain of the man.
-- I had no grain of hope left.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they flew down into the ashes; and the little doves put their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began pick, pick, pick; and they put all the good grain into the dishes, and left all the ashes.
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