brush是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 刷(子) ， 毛刷； 画笔v. 刷， 擦， 掸， 拂； 掠过，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：
-- Under his busy brush and broom things soon changed their aspect.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among others old Fletcher remembers seeing him, and indeed the old gentleman was so struck by his peculiar agitation that he inadvertently allowed a quantity of whitewash to run down the brush into the sleeve of his coat while regarding him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Such old foxes as Chingachgook and myself are not often caught in a barrow with one hole,' said Hawkeye, laughing; 'you can easily see the cunning of the place the rock is black limestone, which everybody knows is soft; it makes no uncomfortable pillow, where brush and pine wood is scarce; well, the fall was once a few yards below us, and I dare to say was, in its time, as regular and as handsome a sheet of water as any along the Hudson.
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
-- When his triumph had ceased, he cast the brush on the slight heap Duncan had made before the entrance of the second cavern, and closed the view.
-- The clamorous noises again rushed down the island; and before Duncan had time to recover from the shock, his fee-ble barrier of brush was scattered to the winds, the cavern was entered at both its extremities, and he and his compan-ions were dragged from their shelter and borne into the day, where they stood surrounded by the whole band of the tri-umphant Hurons.
-- said Duncan, turning pale, and glancing his eyes around him, as if he feared the brush and leaves were about to give up some horrid secret.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Employed in houses, they can wait at table, sweep rooms, brush clothes, clean boots, handle a knife, fork, and spoon properly, and even drink wine,... doing everything as well as the best servant that ever walked upon two legs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were indeed tears in her eyes, and drawing out her handkerchief to brush them away, she happened to let it fall.
-- He approached as softly as he could, and advancing so near the wall as to brush the whitened ivy with his dress, listened.
-- That fancy past, he opened an old chest, took out some clothes as fondly as if they had been living things, and began to smooth and brush them with his hand.
-- Then, he would relate to them how needy he used to be, and how she had taught him what he was otherwise too poor to learn, and how the old man had been used to say 'she always laughs at Kit;' at which they would brush away their tears, and laugh themselves to think that she had done so, and be again quite merry.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here he received a cold-water douche, and after rubbing his white and muscular body with coarse towels and donning his white linen, he seated himself before the mirror and began to brush his short, curly beard and the thinning curls of his forehead.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tried to brush it away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It'll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away and what fun it'll be when they ask me how I like my walk.
-- 'The brush has got entangled in it!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hunter was steady, that we knew; Joyce was a doubtful case a pleasant, polite man for a valet and to brush one's clothes, but not entirely fitted for a man of war.
-- I began to see we should have a brush for it in earnest and looked to my priming.
-- I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you wash your face and brush your hair, it will be all right: but you are so dirty!
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next, for about a half an hour, I whoops now and then; at last I hears the answer a long ways off, and tries to follow it, but I couldn't do it, and directly I judged I'd got into a nest of towheads, for I had little dim glimpses of them on both sides of me sometimes just a narrow channel between, and some that I couldn't see I knowed was there because I'd hear the wash of the current against the old dead brush and trash that hung over the banks.
-- When I came in sight of the log store and the woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and brush till I got to a good place, and then I clumb up into the forks of a cottonwood that was out of reach, and watched.
-- I don't hear the dogs and horses yet; you've got time to crowd through the brush and get up the crick a little ways; then you take to the water and wade down to me and get in that'll throw the dogs off the scent.'
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