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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a bank, a court-house, a market, a church, and a hundred or so of brick houses, all exactly alike.
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：
-- In a very few hours the brown earth had become ruddy, the brick had changed to granite, and red cows grazed in well-hedged fields where the lush grasses and more luxuriant vegetation spoke of a richer, if a damper, climate.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall see noth-ing after this but the red brick wall of Meyer's house opposite my window.
-- '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.
-- But now I have no such feeling, and yet I am leaving this room and Meyer's brick wall FOR EVER.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moon-light.
-- Give me brick elephant lines, one stall to each elephant, and big stumps to tie them to safely, and flat, broad roads to exercise upon, instead of this come-and-go camping.
-- Next morning he gave him a scolding and said, 'Are not good brick elephant lines and a little tent carrying enough, that thou must needs go elephant catching on thy own ac-count, little worthless?
-- They were part of a circle of trees that grew round an irregular space of some three or four acres, and in all that space, as Little Toomai could see, the ground had been trampled down as hard as a brick floor.
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 told me of his childhood in the tidy brick house, and of his mother's passionate orderliness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had now at their disposal a vast cavern, the size of which could not be properly calculated by the feeble light of their torches, but it would certainly be easy to divide it into rooms, by means of brick partitions, or to use it, if not as a house, at least as a spacious apartment.
-- It appeared simplest to Harding to make it of brick clay; as creating an outlet for it to the upper plateau was not to be thought of, a hole was pierced in the granite above the window of the kitchen, and the pipe met it like that of an iron stove.
-- The kitchen, with its shelves, on which rested the cooking utensils, its brick stove, looked very well, and Neb worked away there as earnestly as if he was in a chemist's laboratory.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sit thee down, master, in the elbow chair,' said the old man, knocking his stick upon the brick floor, and trying to do so sharply.
-- As Whisker was tired of standing, and Mr Swiveller was kind enough to stimulate him by shrill whistles, and various sporting cries, they rattled off at too sharp a pace to admit of much conversation: especially as the pony, incensed by Mr Swiveller's admonitions, took a particular fancy for the lamp-posts and cart-wheels, and evinced a strong desire to run on the pavement and rasp himself against the brick walls.
-- A long suburb of red brick houses some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and coarse rank flowers, and where the struggling vegetation sickened and sank under the hot breath of kiln and furnace, making them by its presence seem yet more blighting and unwholesome than in the town itself a long, flat, straggling suburb passed, they came, by slow degrees, upon a cheerless region, where not a blade of grass was seen to grow, where not a bud put forth its promise in the spring, where nothing green could live but on the surface of the stagnant pools, which here and there lay idly sweltering by the black road-side.
-- Then came more of the wrathful monsters, whose like they almost seemed to be in their wildness and their untamed air, screeching and turning round and round again; and still, before, behind, and to the right and left, was the same interminable perspective of brick towers, never ceasing in their black vomit, blasting all things living or inanimate, shutting out the face of day, and closing in on all these horrors with a dense dark cloud.
-- Not unmindful of the risk she ran, however, the Marchioness no sooner left the house than she dived into the first dark by-way that presented itself, and, without any present reference to the point to which her journey tended, made it her first business to put two good miles of brick and mortar between herself and Bevis Marks.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he thought, as he drove into the familiar court-yard of the old manor, which was covered with snow that fell from the roofs, and was surrounded by a low brick wall.
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：
-- The girls descended between the houses with slate roofs and blackish brick walls.
-- There was a low brick fireplace, full of fire, an old blue Turkish rug, the little oak table with the lamp and the white-and-blue cloth and the dessert, and Gudrun making coffee in an odd brass coffee-maker, and Winifred scalding a little milk in a tiny saucepan.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next came a plain street with five-story brick flats, and then the train plunged into the tunnel.
-- One was a convent mission- house of the Sisters of Mercy in Fifteenth Street--a row of red brick family dwellings, before the door of which hung a plain wooden contribution box, on which was painted the statement that every noon a meal was given free to all those who might apply and ask for aid.
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