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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the sheet of glass there are only two surfaces; in the powder the light is reflected or refracted by each grain it passes through, and very little gets right through the powder.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
-- Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This bed of fine sand was as smooth as ice, not a grain out of place.
-- On this day, as it was raining in torrents, the settlers were assembled in the great hall in Granite House, when the lad cried out all at once, "Look here, captain A grain of corn!"
-- And he showed his companions a grain a single grain which from a hole in his pocket had got into the lining of his waistcoat.
-- The presence of this grain was explained by the fact that Herbert, when at Richmond, used to feed some pigeons, of which Pencroft had made him a present.
-- "A grain of corn?"
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and weakness a haggard old man's smile; but there was, besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery, in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched, and watched me at my work.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the shell it is fast; in the flesh it is loose; but always has for a kernel a small hard substance, may be a barren egg, may be a grain of sand, around which the pearly matter deposits itself year after year successively, and by thin concentric layers."
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：
-- Yet always he saw the same transparent face, the same dread dark hair on the waxen forehead, and the awful, inchoate dark eyes, which seemed to be decomposing into formless darkness, having only a tiny grain of vision within them.
-- Then he took the cigarette from his lips, bared his teeth, and putting the tip of his tongue between his teeth spat off a grain of tobacco, turning slightly aside, like a man who is alone, or who is lost in thought.
-- These sentences, evidently the ripened grain of many dark hours, took Gerald by surprise.
-- And his soul was dark and gloomy, it had only one grain of living hope, like a grain of mustard seed.
-- But this one living grain in him matched the perfect youth in her.
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