goat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 山羊，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：
-- Menelaus saw him thus stride out before the ranks, and was glad as a hungry lion that lights on the car-case of some goat or horned stag, and devours it there and then, though dogs and youths set upon him.
-- As two lions snatch a goat from the hounds that have it in their fangs, and bear it through thick brushwood high above the ground in their jaws, thus did the Ajaxes bear aloft the body of Imbrius, and strip it of its armour.
-- Many a goodly ox, with many a sheep and bleating goat did they butcher and cut up; many a tusked boar moreover, fat and well-fed, did they singe and set to roast in the flames of Vulcan; and rivulets of blood flowed all round the place where the body was lying.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this ole frat'll never have another goat like Fatty," grieved the president.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll bathe, and you'll climb trees, and you'll hunt goats, you will; and you'll get aloft on them hills like a goat yourself.
-- What a supper I had of it that night, with all my friends around me; and what a meal it was, with Ben Gunn's salted goat and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the Hispaniola.
-- Before that, we had got the treasure stowed and had shipped enough water and the remainder of the goat meat in case of any distress; and at last, one fine morning, we weighed anchor, which was about all that we could manage, and stood out of North Inlet, the same colours flying that the captain had flown and fought under at the palisade.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His daughters were still fond of him; they wanted 'to keep the goat and the cabbage,' so they used to see Joriot whenever there was no one there, under pretence of affection.
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：
-- There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage-full of passengers altogether), and, as the rule seemed to be that they should all speak in turn, he went on with 'She'll have to go back from here as luggage!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the doctor did look like a goat with his gray chin whiskers wagging away at a great rate, and with difficulty shestifled a giggle.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 215THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS here was once upon a time an old goat who had seven Tlittle kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.
-- Soon af-terwards the old goat came home again from the forest.
-- Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors, and a needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach, and hardly had she made one cut, than one little kid thrust its head out, and when she had cut farther, all six sprang out one after another, and were all still alive, and had suffered no injury whatever, for in his greediness the monster had swallowed them down whole.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flukes and flames!Bildad, say that again to me, and start my soul-bolts, but I'll I'll yes, I'll swallow a live goat with all his hair and horns on.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remembered the lump of beeswax with which I made can-dles in my African adventure; but I had none of that now; the only remedy I had was, that when I had killed a goat I saved the tallow, and with a little dish made of clay, which I baked in the sun, to which I added a wick of some oakum, I made me a lamp; and this gave me light, though not a clear, steady light, like a candle.
-- How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.
-- For example, if I killed a goat abroad, I could hang it up in a tree, flay it, dress it, and cut it in pieces, and bring it home in a basket; and the like by a turtle; I could cut it up, take out the eggs and a piece or two of the flesh, which was enough for me, and bring them home in a basket, and leave the rest behind me.
-- The old goat whom I found expiring died in the mouth of the cave the next day after I made this discov-ery; and I found it much easier to dig a great hole there, and throw him in and cover him with earth, than to drag him out; so I interred him there, to prevent offence to my nose.
-- CHAPTER XIII - WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIPI WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but have enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been content to have capitulated for spending the rest of my time there, even to the last moment, till I had laid me down and died, like the old goat in the cave.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his wild flight, he leaped over brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds, as if he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds.
-- High on the rock stood a little Goat bleating and calling and beckoning to the Marionette to come to her.
-- bleated the little Goat on the high rock.
-- The Goat leaned over and gave him one of her hoofs to help him up out of the water.
-- "This cottage was given to me yesterday by a little Goat with blue hair."
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