blast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 一阵; 爆炸气浪; 巨响; vt. (用炸药) 炸, 摧毁，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 night was stormy, and the planks of the rancho cracked before the blast as if every instant they would give way.
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：
-- Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terri-ble oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps I am afraid ' And no sooner did this last idea enter my head than an icy blast blew over me; I felt a chill down my backbone and my knees shook.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He beamed on his loving students and cried: "Gentlemen, the trouble with too many doctors, even those splendid old pioneer war-horses who through mud and storm, through winter's chill blast and August's untempered heat, go bringing cheer and surcease from pain to the world's humblest, yet even these old Nestors not so infrequently settle down in a rut and never shake themselves loose.
-- Perched on a cloud, watching them, was the divine Tubbs, a glory of whiskers, ready to blast any of the little men who stopped being earnest and wasted time on speculation about anything which he had not assigned to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Itappeared to my childish fancy, as I ascended to the bedroom whereI had been imprisoned, that they brought a cold blast of air into thehouse which blew away the old familiar feeling like a feather.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all 165bounds of reason and reflection.
-- These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot de-scribe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
-- You can blast 205my other passions, but revenge remains revenge, hence-forth dearer than light or food!I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.
-- About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o'clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
-- It was neces-sary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And blast you all!"
-- I dined at what Herbert and I used to call a geographical chop-house, where there were maps of the world in porter-pot rims on every half-yard of the tablecloths, and charts of gravy on every one of the knives,--to this day there is scarcely a single chop-house within the Lord Mayor's dominions which is not geographical,--and wore out the time in dozing over crumbs, staring at gas, and baking in a hot blast of dinners.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the silence a wood-pigeon began to coo roo-hoo hoo!roo-hoo hoo!Clifford shut her up with a blast on the horn.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a day or two it was announced to all the town, that Edmund Sparkler, Esquire, son-in-law of the eminent Mr Merdle of worldwide renown, was made one of the Lords of the Circumlocution Office; and proclamation was issued, to all true believers, that this admirable appointment was to be hailed as a graceful and gracious mark of homage, rendered by the graceful and gracious Decimus, to that commercial interest which must ever in a great commercial country and all the rest of it, with blast of trumpet.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Why, blast your eyes, Bildad," cried Peleg, "thou dost not want to swindle this young man!he must have more than that."
-- I say, Quohog, blast ye!dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark?"
-- Blast me, if I can hear my own voice.
-- Blast him!now that I think of it, he's always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots."
-- And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the flame.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess I had not entertained any notion of my am-munition being destroyed at one blast - I mean my powder being blown up by lightning; and this made the thoughts of it so surprising to me, when it lightened and thundered, as I observed just now.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There came a day when the first premonitory blast of winter swept over the city.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and the cannon let off such a blast right be-fore me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.
-- It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider- webby; and here would come a blast of wind that would bend the trees down and turn up the pale under- side of the leaves; and then a perfect ripper of a gust would fol-low along and set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild; and next, when it was just about the blu-est and blackest FST!it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of tree- tops a-plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again in a second, and now you'd hear the thunder let go with an awful crash, and then go rum- bling, grumbling, tumbling, down the sky towards the under side of the world, like rolling empty barrels down stairs where it's long stairs and they bounce a good deal, you know.
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