blank是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (纸) 没有写字的; (表格) 空白的; 失色的; n. 空白; 空虚; 空弹，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：
-- If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
-- After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face.
-- The servant who spoke, had thrown the blinds wide, had looked out into the vacant darkness, and stood with that blank behind him, looking round for instructions.
-- There was a blank silence.
-- There was another blank silence before her father re-joined: 'I believe it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Mrs. Novak, padding on thick slippered feet, brought in the hot cloths, Novak appeared with a blank "Nobody sleeping at the drug store, and Blassner's house-line is out of order."
-- A sheer wall, thirty blank stories of glass and limestone, down in the pinched triangle whence New York rules a quarter of the world.
-- he dashed into an exposition of his experiments, drawing sketches on the blank spaces in newspaper advertisements, on the back of a wedding invitation, on the flyleaf of a presentation novel, looking at Martin apologetically, learned yet gay.
-- As he bent over the brass tube and focused the objective, into the gray-lavender circular field of vision rose to existence the grape-like clusters of staphylococcus germs, purple dots against the blank plane.
-- The afternoon was unending; each time she heard a creaking she roused with the hope that it was his step, and realized that he would not be coming, all the blank evening, the terrifying night; would not be here anywhere, not his voice nor the touch of his hand.
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：
-- Raskolnikov gazed in horror at the hook shaking in its fastening, and in blank terror expected every minute that the fastening would be pulled out.
-- When he was in his room, he flung himself on the sofa just as he was he did not sleep, but sank into blank 130 Crime and Punishmentforgetfulness.
-- For coming out of V Prospect towards the square, he saw on the left a passage leading between two blank walls to a courtyard.
-- On the right hand, the blank unwhitewashed wall of a four-storied house stretched far into the court; on the left, a wooden hoarding ran parallel with it for - twenty paces into the court, and then turned sharply to the left.
-- It left him strangely cold; this gorgeous picture was for him blank and lifeless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- Looking back, as I was saying, into the blank of my infancy, thefirst objects I can remember as standing out by themselves from aconfusion of things, are my mother and Peggotty.
-- What yawns and dozes I lapsed into, in spite of all my care; whatstarts I came out of concealed sleeps with; what answers I nevergot, to little observations that I rarely made; what a blank space Iseemed, which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's 119way; what a heavy relief it was to hear Miss Murdstone hail thefirst stroke of nine at night, and order me to bed!
-- 'Indeed, sir,' said I, 'her affairs are so changed,that I wished to ask you whether it would be possible- at a sacrificeon our part of some portion of the premium, of course,' I put inthis, on the spur of the moment, warned by the blank expression ofhis face- 'to cancel my articles?'
-- There wereneither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road nearthe great blank prison.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and Mr. Knightley; and by Mr. Elton, a young man living alone with-out liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of Mr. Woodhouse's drawing-room, and the smiles of his love-ly daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.
-- I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to 334 Emmame.''
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