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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But really imagine it: imagine any man one knows, imagine him coming home to one every evening, and saying 'Hello,' and giving one a kiss "There was a blank pause.
-- And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic.
-- One seems always to be bumping one's nose against the blank wall ahead."
-- He saw the blank shining wonder come over Gerald's face.
-- He looked so preoccupied, and his strange, blank silences, which she could not read, moved her and made her wonder over him, made her feel reverential towards him.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose: scarcely one chapter had escaped, a pen and ink commentary at least the appearance of one covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rickety table, with spare bundles of papers, yellow and ragged from long carriage in the pocket, ostentatiously displayed upon its top; a couple of stools set face to face on opposite sides of this crazy piece of furniture; a treacherous old chair by the fire-place, whose withered arms had hugged full many a client and helped to squeeze him dry; a second-hand wig box, used as a depository for blank writs and declarations and other small forms of law, once the sole contents of the head which belonged to the wig which belonged to the box, as they were now of the box itself; two or three common books of practice; a jar of ink, a pounce box, a stunted hearth-broom, a carpet trodden to shreds but still clinging with the tightness of desperation to its tacks these, with the yellow wainscot of the walls, the smoke-discoloured ceiling, the dust and cobwebs, were among the most prominent decorations of the office of Mr Sampson Brass.
-- Dick murmured something about never wanting a friend or a bottle to give him, and also gasped forth his favourite allusion to the wing of friendship and its never moulting a feather; but his faculties appeared to be absorbed in the contemplation of Miss Sally Brass, at whom he stared with blank and rueful looks, which delighted the watchful dwarf beyond measure.
-- The three gentlemen looked at each other with blank faces when these words were uttered, and Mr Chuckster, doing as he was desired, and leaping off his stool with something of the excitement of an inspired prophet whose foretellings had in the fulness of time been realised, held the door open for the entrance of the wretched captive.
-- Then Kit began to wish they had not been quite so nimble; for the travelling-carriage which had been hired for the occasion was not to arrive until nine o'clock, and there was nothing but breakfast to fill up the intervening blank of one hour and a half.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff recalled all the tortures this man had occasioned him; how on one occasion he thought that the husband had discovered all, and he was preparing to fight a duel with him, intending to use a blank cartridge, and the ensuing scene where she, in despair, ran to the pond, intending to drown herself, while he ran to search for her.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish moneys to a common value.
-- The printed side had been blackened with wood ash, which already began to come off and soil my fingers; on the blank side had been written with the same material the one word "Depposed."
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