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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They met readily and smiling, but with a conscious-ness which at first allowed little to be said; and having all sat down again, there was for some time such a blank in the circle, that Emma began to doubt whether the wish now in-dulged, which she had long felt, of seeing Frank Churchill once more, and of seeing him with Jane, would yield its proportion of pleasure.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, I think this much, ma'am, as I told you years ago," said Oak, "that his life is a total blank whenever he isn't hoping for 'ee; but I can't suppose I hope that nothing so dreadful hangs on to it as you fancy.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She reminds me of a skinnyhen perched on a chair, her eyes kind of bright and blank and scared, all ready to flap and squawk at the slightest moveanybody makes."
-- Till the day she diedthere would be blank spots in her memories of those days.
-- The long road from Atlanta to Tara had ended, ended in a blank wall, the road that was to end in Ellen's arms.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, when I knew her better I began to think it was a Mercy she had any features at all, so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face.
-- She never changed the order of these three sentences, but she sometimes left out a word in one or other of them; never putting in another word, but always leaving a blank and going on to the next word.
-- I knew the limekiln as well as I knew the old Battery, but they were miles apart; so that, if a light had been burning at each point that night, there would have been a long strip of the blank horizon between the two bright specks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Except that it is a fire,' said Tom, 'it looks to me as stupid and blank as everything else looks.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The obscurity had by this time become intense, and at last even the faint sound of the guide's footsteps was lost in the blank distance.
-- It left to the imagination nothing but blank horror, without the faintest chance of escape!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a blank of insentience.
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- Their marriage, their integrated life based on a habit of intimacy, that he talked about: there were days when it all became ut-terly blank and nothing.
-- But there he would sit, with a blank entranced expression on his face, like a person losing his mind, and listen, or seem to listen, to the unspeakable thing.
-- And then she felt as if she too were going blank, just blank and insane.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mr Arthur found the house so blank and dreary, and was so unwilling to assist at another implacable consignment of his mother's enemies (perhaps himself among them) to mortal disfigurement and immortal ruin, that he announced his intention of lodging at the coffee-house where he had left his luggage.
-- With a pitiful and plaintive look for her wayward sister; for her idle brother; for the high blank walls; for the faded crowd they shut in; for the games of the prison children as they whooped and ran, and played at hide-and-seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway 'Home.'
-- Maggy was snoring already, and Little Dorrit was soon fast asleep with her head resting on that sealed book of Fate, untroubled by its mysterious blank leaves.
-- She was so much out, and so much in her own room, that he began to miss her and to find a blank in her place.
-- 'Yes, I know; but all homes are not left with such a blank in them as there will be in mine when I am gone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and car-icatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.
-- S. HALE Blank Hospital, Washington.
-- Tearing off the blank side of one of her newly copied pages, Jo drew the table before her mother, well knowing that money for the long, sad journey must be borrowed, and feeling as if she could do anything to add to a little to the sum for her father.
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