brick是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 砖块， 砖v. 用砖围砌， 用砖填补，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
-- The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
-- They first passed through the "black town," with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the "European town," which presented a relief in its bright brick mansions, shaded by coconut-trees and bristling with masts, where, although it was early morning, elegantly dressed horsemen and handsome equipages were passing back and forth.
-- From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a feeling of New England in its brick and sycamore villages, its stable industries, and a tradition which goes back to the Revolutionary War.
-- Once Clif produced the masterpiece of throwing a brick into the sink beside the platform, just when Dr. Robertshaw was working up to his annual climax about the effects of brass bands on the intensity of the knee-jerk.
-- But in its day it was the proudest inn between Chicago and Pittsburgh; an oriental palace, the entrance a score of brick Moorish arches, the lobby towering from a black and white marble floor, up past gilt iron balconies, to the green, pink, pearl, and amber skylight seven stories above.
-- The brick walls were dizzy with bunting, spotty with paper chrysanthemums and plaster skulls and wooden scalpels ten feet long.
-- You yoost turn back one mile and turn to the right by the brick schoolhouse, and it's about forty rods up the road--the house with a cement silo.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am putting my little brick into the happiness of all and so my heart is at peace.
-- In my time there was a very meek and mild prisoner who spent a whole year in prison always reading his Bible on the stove at night and he read himself crazy, and so crazy, do you know, that one day, apropos of nothing, he seized a brick and flung it at the governor; though he had done him no harm.
-- On working days she would go to see him at work either at the workshops or at the brick kilns, or at the sheds on the banks of the Irtish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A short walk brought us- I mean the Master and me- to SalemHouse, which was enclosed with a high brick wall, and lookedvery dull.
-- Salem House was a square brick building with wings, of a bare andunfurnished appearance.
-- Lunch succeeded to our sight-seeing, and the short winter daywore away so fast, that it was dusk when the stage-coach stoppedwith us at an old brick house at Highgate on the summit of the hill.
-- Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed ofgrave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' namesupon the doors, to be the official abiding places of the learnedadvocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dullroom, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.
-- Where, for the first time in manyrevolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilitieswas not proclaimed, from day to day, by importunate voicesdeclining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on thedoor for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service ofprocess was not required, and detainers were merely lodged at thegate!Gentlemen,' said Mr. Mi- cawber, 'when the shadow of thatiron-work on the summit of the brick structure has been reflectedon the gravel of the Parade, I have seen my children thread the 652mazes of the intricate pattern, avoiding the dark marks.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an islandset in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
-- It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
-- The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of MissPittypat's house.
-- She had a child but he was cared for so well by the othersin the red brick house she could almost forget him.
-- And Scarlett, flying up the stairs with a hot brick wrapped in flannel, found Rhett patting her hand.
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