building是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 建筑(物) ， 房屋， 大楼，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Turning from the building in adowncast manner, Mr. Micawber accepted my proffered arm onone side, and the proffered arm of Traddles on the other, andwalked away between us.
-- 721Standing hard by the building was a plain hearse.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not say when, but perhaps you may guess where; in the building in which N. takes M. for better, for worse.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE MALTHOUSE THE CHAT NEWSWarren's Malthouse was enclosed by an old wall inwrapped with ivy, and though not much of the exterior was visible at this hour, the character and purposes of the building were clearly enough shown by its outline upon the sky.
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
-- During conversations each subjected his sapling to great varieties of usage bending it round his back, forming an arch of it between his two hands, overweighting it on the ground till it reached nearly a semicircle; or perhaps it was hastily tucked under the arm whilst the sample-bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events perfectly well known to half-a-dozen acute town-bred fowls which had as usual crept into the building unobserved, and waited the fulfilment of their anticipations with a high-stretched neck and oblique eye.
-- As Oak approached the building the sound of violins and a tambourine, and the regular jigging of many feet, grew more distinct.
-- It was getting on towards six o'clock, and sounds of movement were to be heard inside the building which was the haven of rest to this wearied soul.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the greenincline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look ofmellowed years.
-- She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also the entire civilization that was behind the building of it, andshe found herself in a world that was as strange and different as if she had crossed a continent.
-- But the next year, in 1836, the State had authorized the building of a railroadnorthwestward through the territory which the Cherokees had recently ceded.
-- Then the railroad building era really began.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned my eyes--a little dimmed by looking up at the frosty light--towards a great wooden beam in a low nook of the building near me on my right hand, and I saw a figure hanging there by the neck.
-- So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.
-- I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum, on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar.
-- I lay in that separate building across the courtyard.
-- As I crossed by the fountain, I saw his lighted back windows looking bright and quiet, and, when I stood for a few moments in the doorway of the building where I lived, before going up the stairs, Garden Court was as still and lifeless as the staircase was when I ascended it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation; which he justi-fied to me, by the like practice of those two prudent insects, the bee and the spider.
-- For instance, when I am at home, and dressed as I ought to be, I carry on my body the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen; the building and furniture of my house employ as many more, and five times the number to adorn my wife.'
-- He added, how I had endeavoured to persuade him, that in my own and other countries, the Yahoos acted as the governing, rational animal, and held the Houyhnhnms in servitude; that he observed in me all the qualities of a Yahoo, only a little more civilized by some tincture of rea-son, which, however, was in a degree as far inferior to the Houyhnhnm race, as the Yahoos of their country were to me; that, among other things, I mentioned a custom we had of castrating Houyhnhnms when they were young, in or-der to render them tame; that the operation was easy and safe; that it was no shame to learn wisdom from brutes, as industry is taught by the ant, and building by the swallow 348 Gulliver's Travels(for so I translate the word lyhannh, although it be a much larger fowl); that this invention might be practised upon the younger Yahoos here, which besides rendering them tractable and fitter for use, would in an age put an end to the whole species, without destroying life; that in the mean time the Houyhnhnms should be exhorted to cultivate the breed of asses, which, as they are in all respects more valu-able brutes, so they have this advantage, to be fit for service at five years old, which the others are not till twelve.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.
-- You give it mouth enough, you do; but give it mouth in your own building at least,' remonstrated E. W. B. with stern irony.
-- You have got some building of your own I dare say, now?'
-- It broke from one line in the table of commandments at the altar, and illuminated the building with the words.
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