shrill是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 尖声的vt. 尖声地叫，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：
-- As soon as the visitors had crossed the low dark hall, and entered the narrow reception-room, furnished with half a dozen cane chairs, and two small card-tables, Madame Terentieff, in the shrill tones habitual to her, continued her stream of invectives.
-- 'Hippolyte Terentieff,' cried the last-named, in a shrill voice.
-- The shrill tones of Hippolyte interrupted him.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles and Ulysses hated him worst of all, for it was with them that he was most wont to wrangle; now, however, with a shrill squeaky voice he began heaping his abuse on Agamemnon.
-- They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans.
-- There she took her stand, and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage, giving them heart to fight resolute-ly and with all their might, so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships.
-- Fierce as the shrill winds that whistle upon a day when dust lies deep on the roads, and the gusts raise it into a thick cloud even such was the fury of the combat, and might and main did they hack at each other with spear and sword throughout the host.
-- As black beans or pulse come pattering down on to a threshing-floor from the broad winnowing-shovel, blown by shrill winds and shaken by the shovel even so did the arrow glance off and recoil from the shield of Menelaus, who in his turn wounded the hand with which Helenus carried his bow; the spear went right through his hand and stuck in the bow it-self, so that to his life he retreated under cover of his men, with his hand dragging by his side for the spear weighed it down till Agenor drew it out and bound the hand carefully up in a woollen sling which his esquire had with him.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew what he was talking of; for he had been born under Kala Nag's shadow, had played with the end of his trunk before he could walk, had taken him down to water as soon as he could walk, and Kala Nag would no more have dreamed of disobeying his shrill little orders than he would have dreamed of killing him on that day when Big Toomai carried the little brown baby under Kala Nag's tusks, and told him to salute his master that was to be.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate; and it made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery, like the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at sea.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: 'Could you not have done it more carefully!You dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill but distinct voice, Hekinah degul: the others repeated the same words several times, but then I knew not what they meant.
-- But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it ceased I heard one of them cry aloud Tolgo phonac; when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, fell on my body, (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I immediately cov-ered with my left hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without a candle in the room, Mrs. Sparsit sat at the window, with her hands before her, not thinking much of the sounds of evening; the whooping of boys, the barking of dogs, the rumbling of wheels, the steps and voices of passengers, the shrill street cries, the clogs upon the pavement when it was their hour for going by, the shutting-up of shop-shutters.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a little period of anxiety and then there was a shrill whistle, just to tell us where to look for him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None of those who were nearest answered; but from the outer ring there arose a shrill cry of ''Cause you're mad!'
-- The shrill outer circle again retorted, 'Then that 'ud show you was mad if nothing else did, 'cause it's right opposite!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, like all happiness, it did not last long, for as sure as she had just reached the heart of the story, the sweetest verse of a song, or the most perilous adventure of her traveler, a shrill voice called, 'Josy-phine!Josy-phine!and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
-- So it was an unusually lively meeting, and did not adjourn till a late hour, when it broke up with three shrill cheers for the new member.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this, Fleece, holding both hands over the fishy mob, raised his shrill voice, and cried "Cussed fellow-critters!Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam' bellies 'till dey bust and den die."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he cried in a shrill tone.
-- 'Perhaps I do, my dear,' said the Jew, with a shrill chuckle.
-- cried a shrill voice in Mr. Bumble's ear: 'you would have been dear at any price; and dear enough I paid for you, Lord above knows that!'
-- He looked dejectedly round, and slunk away; and, as he reached the door, the titterings of the paupers broke into a shrill chuckle of irrepressible delight.
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