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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wouldn't, he COULDN'T confess her to be a crimi-nal, and yet he felt that something dreadful would happen the next moment, something which would blast his whole life.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quar-ter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships.
-- As when some mighty forest is all ablaze the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of the flame even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Atre-us, and many a noble pair of steeds drew an empty chariot along the highways of war, for lack of drivers who were ly-ing on the plain, more useful now to vultures than to their wives.
-- The stones fell thick as the flakes of snow which some fierce blast drives from the dark clouds and showers down in sheets upon the earth even so fell the weapons from the hands alike of Trojans and Achaeans.
-- Then Jove the lord of thun-der sent the blast of a mighty wind from the mountains of Ida, that bore the dust down towards the ships; he thus lulled the Achaeans into security, and gave victory to Hec-tor and to the Trojans, who, trusting to their own might and to the signs he had shown them, essayed to break through the great wall of the Achaeans.
-- Mighty was the uproar as the two forces met; the sea came rolling in towards the ships and tents of the Achaeans, but waves do not thunder on the shore more loudly when driven be-fore the blast of Boreas, nor do the flames of a forest fire roar more fiercely when it is well alight upon the moun-tains, nor does the wind bellow with ruder music as it tears on through the tops of when it is blowing its hardest, than the terrible shout which the Trojans and Achaeans raised as they sprang upon one another.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was one blast of furious trumpeting from the lines, and then the silence shut down on everything, and Kala Nag began to move.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Ichabod approached this fearful tree, he began to whistle; he thought his whistle was answered; it was but a blast sweeping sharply through the dry branches.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, blast you; I want you to hold your tongue."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This reduction is made by subjecting the ore with coal to a high temperature, either by the rapid and easy Catalan method, which has the advantage of transforming the ore into iron in a single operation, or by the blast furnace, which first smelts the ore, then changes it into iron, by carrying away the three to four per cent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they came to any town or village, or even to a detached house of good appearance, Short blew a blast upon the brazen trumpet and carolled a fragment of a song in that hilarious tone common to Punches and their consorts.
-- The child was at first quite terrified by the sight of these gaunt giants for such they looked as they advanced with lofty strides beneath the shadow of the trees but Short, telling her there was nothing to fear, blew a blast upon the trumpet, which was answered by a cheerful shout.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She's so beautiful, so perfect, you find her so good, it tears you like a silk, and every stroke and bit cuts hot ha, that perfection, when you blast yourself, you blast yourself!And then " he stopped on the snow and suddenly opened his clenched hands "it's nothing your brain might have gone charred as rags and " he looked round into the air with a queer histrionic movement "it's blasting you understand what I mean it is a great experience, something final and then you're shrivelled as if struck by electricity."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merely the branch of a fir tree that touched my lattice as the blast wailed by, and rattled its dry cones against the panes!I listened doubtingly an instant; detected the disturber, then turned and dozed, and dreamt again: if possible, still more disagreeably than before.
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