stroke是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 击; 划; 一笔; 中风; 击，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third upon the next night when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate.
-- 50 Sons and LoversStave 3: The Second of the Three Spirits waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and Asitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.
-- As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the pre-diction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground, towards him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the bank passenger with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against 17the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, when-ever the coach got a special jolt nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
-- No!Taken out of harness one day at noon, to feed if he could find food he sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bo-som.'
-- The clocks are on the stroke of three, and the furrow ploughed among the populace is turning round, to come on into the place of execution, and end.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only fancy, we all but ran over two soldiers," she began telling them at once, using her eyes, smiling and twitching away her tail, which she flung back at one stroke all on one side.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What yawns and dozes I lapsed into, in spite of all my care; whatstarts I came out of concealed sleeps with; what answers I nevergot, to little observations that I rarely made; what a blank space Iseemed, which everybody overlooked, and yet was in everybody's 119way; what a heavy relief it was to hear Miss Murdstone hail thefirst stroke of nine at night, and order me to bed!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had brought upon her a stroke resulting, as did that of Moses in Horeb, in a liquid stream here a stream of tears.
-- This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel ears like the thirteenth stroke of crazy clock.
-- A poplar in the immediate foreground was like an ink stroke on burnished tin.
-- A coral reef which just comes short of the ocean surface is no more to the horizon than if it had never been begun, and the mere finishing stroke is what often appears to create an event which has long been potentially an accomplished thing.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a bold stroke and it would have cost the South dearly, except for Forrest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord bless you, I have heard him, a hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, "You know where I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there; why don't you do a stroke of business with me?
-- I felt mortified to be of so little use in the boat; but, there were few better oarsmen than my two friends, and they rowed with a steady stroke that was to last all day.
-- The tide ran strong, I took care to lose none of it, and our steady stroke carried us on thoroughly well.
-- Leaving just room enough for the play of the oars, she kept alongside, drifting when we drifted, and pulling a stroke or two when we pulled.
-- They had pulled one sudden stroke ahead, had got their oars in, had run athwart us, and were holding on to our gunwale, before we knew what they were doing.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door flew open at the third stroke of the wand, and when the lions were quieted he went on through the castle and came at length to a beauti-ful hall.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The father complied, and the lad took his seat again, whereupon I went to him, and kissed his hand, which my master took, and made him stroke me gently with it.
-- But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being al-most a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
-- When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first question is about the sun's health, how he looked at his setting and ris-ing, and what hopes they have to avoid the stroke of the approaching comet.
-- We stood gazing at each other for some time; at last I took the boldness to reach my hand towards his neck with a design to stroke it, using the common style and whistle of jockeys, when they are going to handle a strange horse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans was engaged in putting the finishing stroke to our baggage, which he did in a silent, quiet way that won my admiration, and yet he did it admirably well.
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