pyramid是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 金字塔，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other's shoulders, the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses.
-- This elicited loud applause, in the midst of which the orchestra was just striking up a deafening air, when the pyramid tottered, the balance was lost, one of the lower noses vanished from the pyramid, and the human monument was shattered like a castle built of cards!
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was the admiration of all the negroes; who, having gathered, of all ages and sizes, from the farm and the neighborhood, stood forming a pyramid of shining black faces at every door and window; gazing with delight at the scene; rolling their white eye-balls, and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear.
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：
-- You miss an infinitesimal line and you can build it into a pyramid of evidence!A fly flew by and saw it!Is it possible?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He touched it once more, wishing 320us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, asrespectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The central space between the walls is filled with artichokes and rows of pyramid fruit-trees, and surrounded by a border of lettuce, pot-herbs, and parsley.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father of one of the families was in the habit of balancing the father of another of the families on the top of a great pole; the father of a third family often made a pyramid of both those fathers, with Master Kidderminster for the apex, and himself for the base; all the fathers could dance upon rolling casks, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing.
-- Only a poor girl only a stroller only James Harthouse made nothing of only James Harthouse a Great Pyramid of failure.'
-- The Great Pyramid put it into his head to go up the Nile.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The withered chaplet my dear,' said Flora, with great enjoyment, 'is then perished the column is crumbled and the pyramid is standing upside down upon its what's-his-name call it not giddiness call it not weakness call it not folly I must now retire into privacy and look upon the ashes of departed joys no more but taking a further liberty of paying for the pastry which has formed the humble pretext of our interview will for ever say Adieu!'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
-- Look at his hump, which would be as fine eating as the buffalo's (which is esteemed a rare dish), were it not such a solid pyramid of fat.
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