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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The quartermaster proved right, for as the cloud came nearer, quite a chorus of bleatings and neighings, and bel-lowings escaped from it, mingled with the loud tones of a human voice, in the shape of cries, and whistles, and vociferations.
-- Jacques Paganel, always demonstrative, gave such deep sighs of satisfaction that the paroquets and cockatoos flew out in alarm, making a deafening chorus of noisy chatter.
-- Then the sorrowful chorus redoubled.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a chorus of deep growls, and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back Shere Khan's question to Akela: 'What have the Free People to do with a man's cub?'
-- Where roaring on the ledges the summer ground-swell rolled; I heard them lift the chorus that drowned the breakers' song The Beaches of Lukannon two million voices strong.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not knowing what might be the consequences of irritating her friend, and trembling with the fear of doing so, poor Nell sang him some little ditty which she had learned in happier times, and which was so agreeable to his ear, that on its conclusion he in the same peremptory manner requested to be favoured with another, to which he was so obliging as to roar a chorus to no particular tune, and with no words at all, but which amply made up in its amazing energy for its deficiency in other respects.
-- With a third call, more imperative than either of the two former, Nell felt obliged to comply, and this time a chorus was maintained not only by the two men together, but also by the third man on horseback, who being by his position debarred from a nearer participation in the revels of the night, roared when his companions roared, and rent the very air.
-- In this way, with little cessation, and singing the same songs again and again, the tired and exhausted child kept them in good humour all that night; and many a cottager, who was roused from his soundest sleep by the discordant chorus as it floated away upon the wind, hid his head beneath the bed-clothes and trembled at the sounds.
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：
-- And a great many voices all said together ('like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), 'Don't keep him waiting, child!Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'
-- And again the chorus of voices went on.
-- And once more the chorus of voices went on with 'The man that drives the engine.
-- The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all.
-- Then came the chorus again: 'Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink,Or anything else that is pleasant to drink:Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine And welcome Queen Alice with ninety-times-nine!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round and force all the trembling company to listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.
-- The endless ballad had come to an end at last, and the whole diminished company about the camp-fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often:"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Have you ever tried to get in as a chorus girl?"
-- Just another chorus girl--that's all."
-- One of the proprietors had suggested that the chorus was a little weak on looks.
-- That very evening, however, on going into the theatre, one of the chorus girls passed her all newly arrayed in a pretty mottled tweed suit, which took Carrie's eye.
-- One of the sweetest and most sympathetic little chorus girls in the company made friends with her because in Carrie she found nothing to frighten her away.
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