martyr是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 烈士, 殉难者; vt. 杀害, 折磨, 牺牲，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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little "genre" pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Gericault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At about this time, too, I madethree discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curiousdisorder called 'the spazzums,' which was generally accompaniedwith inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantlytreated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in thetemperature of my pantry, made the brandy-bottles burst; thirdly,that I was alone in the world, and much given to record thatcircumstance in fragments of English versification.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy spoke bitterly, and turned her back on the exasperating martyr at her feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I declare,' she sobbed, 'I never was so cut up since your mama and my papa not Doyce and Clennam for this once but give the precious little thing a cup of tea and make her put it to her lips at least pray Arthur do, not even Mr F.'s last illness for that was of another kind and gout is not a child's affection though very painful for all parties and Mr F. a martyr with his leg upon a rest and the wine trade in itself inflammatory for they will do it more or less among themselves and who can wonder, it seems like a dream I am sure to think of nothing at all this morning and now Mines of money is it really, but you must know my darling love because you never will be strong enough to tell him all about it upon teaspoons, mightn't it be even best to try the directions of my own medical man for though the flavour is anything but agreeable still I force myself to do it as a prescription and find the benefit, you'd rather not why no my dear I'd rather not but still I do it as a duty, everybody will congratulate you some in earnest and some not and many will congratulate you with all their hearts but none more so I do assure you from the bottom of my own I do myself though sensible of blundering and being stupid, and will be judged by Arthur not Doyce and Clennam for this once so good-bye darling and God bless you and may you be very happy and excuse the liberty, vowing that the dress shall never be finished by anybody else but shall be laid by for a keepsake just as it is and called Little Dorrit though why that strangest of denominations at any time I never did myself and now I never shall!'
-- 'I must not make a martyr of myself, when I am one of so large a company.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the appointed hour Elder William Hitch rose, and, in an irritated voice, as if he had already been contradicted, said, "I tell you that Joe Smith is a martyr, that his brother Hiram is a martyr, and that the persecutions of the United States Government against the prophets will also make a martyr of Brigham Young.
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