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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tore a blank page off, and sat down pencil in hand to write.
-- His eyes wandered ceaselessly over the blank horizon.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a blank half-sheet of paper, without even a water-mark upon it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He talked so elo-quently about the blank wall outside his bedroom window, that I'm sure he will never support life here without it. '
-- 'Yes, I remember he boasted about the blank wall in an extraordinary way,' continued Evgenie, 'and I feel that with-out that blank wall he will never be able to die eloquently; and he does so long to die eloquently!'
-- 'Oh, you must forgive him the blank wall,' said the prince, quietly.
-- 'When I observed that it was all the same whether one died among trees or in front of a blank brick wall, as here, and that it was not worth making any fuss over a fort-night, he agreed at once.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Subsequently he alleged that his mind was a blank from the moment of his escape from the Lady Vain.
-- The intelligence is of-ten oddly low, with unaccountable blank ends, unexpected gaps.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the val-ley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when no-body knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the ele-phants poured into the stockade like boulders in a landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dirk Stroeve, telling the story, had such a look of blank astonishment on his round, foolish face that it was almost impossible not to laugh.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Utensils:-1 iron pot, 6 copper saucepans, 3 iron dishes, 10 metal plates, 2 kettles, 1 portable stove, 6 table-knives, Books:-1 Bible, 1 atlas, 1 dictionary of the different Polynesian idioms, 1 dictionary of natural science, in six volumes; 3 reams of white paper, 2 books with blank pages.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' said Dick, with a blank look, 'I suppose it's of no use my staying here.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues every stately or lovely emblazoning the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.
-- For however eagerly and impetuously the savage crew had hailed the announcement of his quest; yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene and hold them healthily suspended for the final dash.
-- But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing at least, what untattooed parts might remain I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.
-- At the time the Pequod was making good speed through the water; but as the broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her, the boastful sails all fell together as blank bladders that are burst, and all life fled from the smitten hull.
-- Hearing the tremendous rush of the sea-crashing boat, the whale wheeled round to present his blank forehead at bay; but in that evolution, catching sight of the nearing black hull of the ship; seemingly seeing in it the source of all his persecutions; bethinking it it may be a larger and nobler foe; of a sudden, he bore down upon its advancing prow, smiting his jaws amid fiery showers of foam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew looked blank at this information.
-- Cunning, ferocity, and drunkeness in all its stages, were there, in their strongest aspect; and women: some with the last lingering tinge of their early freshness almost fading as you looked: others with every mark and stamp of their sex utterly beaten out, and presenting but one loathsome blank of profligacy and crime; some mere girls, others but young women, and none past the prime of life; formed the darkest and saddest portion of this dreary picture.
-- 'It seems a strange sort of a thing, a knock coming at such a time in the morning,' said Mr. Giles, surveying the pale faces which surrounded him, and looking very blank himself; 'but the door must be opened.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 26Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and beamed in the eyes of Marianne, without feeling how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of mind in the comparison, and how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, after leaving the breakfast table this morning, raging inwardly at his blank declaration of indifference at her plans, Mrs. Hurstwood encountered Jessica in her dressing-room, very leisurely arranging her hair.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One bill said, 'The celebrated Dr. Armand de Montalban, of Paris,' would 'lecture on the Sci-ence of Phrenology' at such and such a place, on the blank day of blank, at ten cents admis- sion, and 'furnish charts of character at twenty-five cents apiece.'
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