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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's horrible,' said Kotick, backing water as a wave went over him, and steadying himself with a screw stroke of his flippers that brought him all standing within three inches of a jagged edge of rock.
-- He heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed.
-- He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an old mongoose he would have known that then was the time to break her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra.
-- If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return stroke in his eye or his lip.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This well-judged and politic stroke on the part of Ma-gua was not without instantaneous results.
-- Stepping eagerly from his stand, he made way for himself to the side of his friend; and cutting his thongs with a quick and angry stroke of his own knife, he mo-tioned to the crowd to divide.
-- His aged head was bowed nearly to the earth, in compelled sub-mission to the stroke of Providence; but a hidden anguish struggled about his furrowed brow, that was only partially concealed by the careless locks of gray that had fallen, ne-glected, on his temples.
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：
-- One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the side, covering the rusty hull with paint.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the first stroke of the hour, the new clerk disappeared.
-- At the last stroke of five, he reappeared, and the office, as if by magic, became fragrant with the smell of gin and water and lemon-peel.
-- The prospect of playing the spy under such delicious circumstances, and of disappointing them all by walking in alive, gave more delight to Quilp than the greatest stroke of good fortune could possibly have inspired him with.
-- He was not very long in doubt; for, while he was surveying it with that knowing look which people assume when they are contemplating for the first time portraits which they ought to recognise but don't, the dwarf threw down the newspaper from which he had been chanting the words already quoted, and seizing a rusty iron bar, which he used in lieu of poker, dealt the figure such a stroke on the nose that it rocked again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alice said, as she held out her hand and tried to stroke it; but it only started back a little, and then stood looking at her again.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet awhile; he should lie for a week where he is that is the best thing for him and you; but another stroke would settle him."
-- I wished a round score of men in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required.
-- Not only that, but it flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round-shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones abroad.
-- There I lay on my elbows in the most trying attitude, and every now and again gave a weak stroke or two to turn her head to shore.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale to escape the stroke of his harpoon.
-- Suddenly his arm straightened, and the harpoon was thrown; I heard the sonorous stroke of the weapon, which seemed to have struck a hard body.
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 saw him as a clear stroke of uttermost contradiction, a strange gem-like being whose existence defined her own non-existence.
-- "Let its mother stroke its fur then, darling, because it is so mysterious "CHAPTER XIX.
-- He was divided entirely between his spirit, which stood outside, and knew, and his body, that was a plunging, unconscious stroke of blood.
-- And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour, and making him mad.
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