chorus是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vt. 合唱; 齐声说，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：
-- It elicited an answering chorus of 'Good day!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Betsy queried in horror, though she could not herself have distinguished Nilsson's voice from any chorus girl's.
-- And the full chorus of the unseen choir rose up, filling the whole church, from the windows to the vaulted roof, with broad waves of melody.
-- At Tsaritsino station the train was met by a chorus of young men singing "Hail to Thee!"
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：
-- He found Svid-650 Crime and Punishmentriga脙炉lov in a tiny back room, adjoining the saloon in which merchants, clerks and numbers of people of all sorts were drinking tea at twenty little tables to the desperate bawl-ing of a chorus of singers.
-- In spite of the chorus in the other room, she was singing some servants' hall song in a rather husky contralto, to the ac-companiment of the organ.
-- A chorus of wretched singers and a drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich with a red nose entertained the public.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Micawber having now raised her voice into a perfect scream, I was so frightened that I ran off to the club-room, and disturbed Mr. Micawber in the act of presiding at a long table, and leading the chorus of 'Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho- o- o!'
-- But Mrs. Micawber, having, in the strength of her emotions, faintedaway, the first thing to be done, even before the chorus could beconsidered complete, was to recover her.
-- He sneaked back into his cell, amidst alittle chorus of approbation; and both Traddles and I experienced agreat relief when he was locked in.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "'Tis a pity that playing the flute should make a man look such a scarecrow," observed Mr. Mark Clark, with additional criticism of Gabriel's countenance, the latter person jerking out, with the ghastly grimace required by the instrument, the chorus of "Dame Durden:" 'Twas Moll' and Bet', and Doll' and Kate',And Dor'-othy Drag'-gle Tail'.
-- Their noise increased to a chorus of baas, upon which Oak pulled the milk-can from before the fire, and taking a small tea-pot from the pocket of his smock-frock, filled it with milk, and taught those of the helpless creatures which were not to be restored to their dams how to drink from the spout a trick they acquired with astonishing aptitude.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so happy at this thought thatshe joined in the last chorus of "The Wearin' o' the Green" and won Gerald's shouted approval.
-- The Home Guard bugler, climbing onto the platform,caught up with the music just as the chorus began, and the high silver notes soared out thrillingly above the massedsinging, causing goose bumps to break out on bare arms and cold chills of deeply felt emotion to fly down spines: "Hurrah!Hurrah!For the Southern Rights, hurrah!
-- The doctor's letter was the first of a chorus of indignation that was beginning to be heard all over the Southagainst speculators, profiteers and holders of government contracts.
-- Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents.
-- At the sight of the women with buckets and dippers, theconveyances halted and the chorus went up in cries, in whispers: "Water!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of No was very strong.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cavallooro (I stick at his very name to start with, and it sounds like the chorus to a comic song) is so necessary to you, that I don't like the thought of taking him away.
-- Lord Decimus was to be there, Mr Tite Barnacle was to be there, the pleasant young Barnacle was to be there; and the Chorus of Parliamentary Barnacles who went about the provinces when the House was up, warbling the praises of their Chief, were to be represented there.
-- The representatives of the Barnacle Chorus dropped in next, and Mr Merdle's physician dropped in next.
-- The Chorus were excessively nervous, perhaps as labouring under the dreadful apprehension that some good thing was going to be diverted from them!Bishop alone talked steadily and evenly.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed pilots of the port he being suspected to have got himself made a pilot in order to save the Nantucket pilot-fee to all the ships he was concerned in, for he never piloted any other craft Bildad, I say, might now be seen actively engaged in looking over the bows for the approaching anchor, and at intervals singing what seemed a dismal stave of psalmody, to cheer the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some sort of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will.
-- Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you to the westward, gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep clanging at their pump-handles in full chorus even for a voyage of considerable length; that is, if it lie along a tolerably accessible coast, or if any other reasonable retreat is afforded them.
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