vein是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 血管； 静脉； 叶脉； 纹理； 情绪vt. 使成脉络，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laid open the vein that runs all the way up the back to the neck; he cut this vein clean away throughout its whole course, and Thoon fell in the dust face upwards, stretching out his hands imploringly towards his comrades.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it only puts him in the vein to leave his poor clerk fifty pounds, that's some-thing; and I think I shook him yesterday.'
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：
-- He never said a clever thing, but he had a vein of brutal sarcasm which was not ineffective, and he always said exactly what he thought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not far from this vein was the vein of coal already made use of by the settlers.
-- They found the vein above ground, near the source of the creek, at the foot of one of the northeastern spurs.
-- A few minutes after them, Cyrus Harding, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett, dragging the hurdle, went towards the vein of coals, where those shistose pyrites abound which are met with in the most recent transition soil, and of which Harding had already found a specimen.
-- Herbert found a vein of it at the foot of Mount Franklin, and they had nothing to do but purify this salt.
-- Pencroft and Neb also pushed with the cart as far as the vein of coal, and brought back several tons of fuel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The result of this secret survey was, that he shaded his face with his hands, and laughed slyly and noiselessly, until every vein in it was swollen almost to bursting.
-- cried Brass, shutting the door behind him; 'the most amazing vein of comicality!But isn't it rather injudicious, sir ?'
-- To work this sportive vein still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In childhood he had fallen in with a gang of thieves, but he possessed a humorous vein which attracted people to him.
-- There was an old acquaintance of Nekhludoff, the yellow-faced and thin Vera Efremovna, with her large, frightened eyes and a big vein on her forehead.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one can wish to serve our Cause more than I, and I wish mydaughters to feel the same way, but to disgrace " There was more in the same vein but Scarlett did not finish it.
-- Had Charles with his fumblingawkwardness and his embarrassed intimacies tapped any of the deep vein of passionate feeling within her, her dreamsof Ashley would not be ending with a kiss.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, caution being necessary in communicating with him for there was a greater danger every moment of his being suspected now, and nobody could be sure at heart but that Mr. Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width (more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Serpent with the tail that smoked started to laugh and a vein in his chest broke and so I went back to the Fairy's house.
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