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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't the whole prob-lem of life the slow building up of an integral personality, through the years?
-- I mean it would be awfully nice to have a child running about the house, and feel one was building up a future for it.
-- It stood above, aside, a very pleasant stucco building from the middle of the eighteenth century.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a narrow dry trough under the lee of the wall, where he walked up and down among the waits of straw and dust and paper, the waste droppings of the pump, and the stray leaves of yesterday's greens.
-- Firstly, because no building could have held all the members and connections of that illustrious house.
-- Among the day's unrealities would be roads where the bright red vines were looped and garlanded together on trees for many miles; woods of olives; white villages and towns on hill-sides, lovely without, but frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colours and sails of beautiful forms; vast piles of building mouldering to dust; hanging-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, with the lizards running into and out of every chink; beggars of all sorts everywhere: pitiful, picturesque, hungry, merry; children beggars and aged beggars.
-- They crossed the Strand, and passed through Covent Garden (under the windows of his old lodging where dear Little Dorrit had come that night), and slanted away north-east, until they passed the great building whence Tattycoram derived her name, and turned into the Gray's Inn Road.
-- Building away with all his might, but reserving the plans of his castle exclusively for his own eye, Mr Dorrit posted away for Marseilles.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my grati-tude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and ev-ery convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
-- This ma-neuver she repeated several times, to the great amusement of a black-eyed young gentleman lounging in the window of a building opposite.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Assured of his qualifications, Mr. Bumble left the building with a light heart, and bright visions of his future promotion: which served to occupy his mind until he reached the shop of the undertaker.
-- He remembered nothing of its details; but the shape and aspect of the building seemed familiar to him.
-- And when Sunday came, how differently the day was spent, from any way in which he had ever spent it yet!and how happily too; like all the other days in that most happy time!There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: and the sweet-smelling air stealing in at the low porch, and filling the homely building with its fragrance.
-- The rat, the worm, and the action of the damp, had weakened and rotted the piles on which it stood; and a considerable portion of the building had already sunk down into the water; while the remainder, tottering and bending over the dark stream, seemed to wait a favourable opportunity of following its old companion, and involving itself in the same fate.
-- It was before this ruinous building that the worthy couple paused, as the first peal of distant thunder reverberated in the air, and the rain commenced pouring violently down.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes, to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in the hope that, whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once; and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another.
-- I had no sooner stepped do ground, than I plainly saw it was a terrible earthquake, for the ground I stood on shook three times at about eight minutes' dis-tance, with three such shocks as would have overturned the strongest building that could be supposed to have stood on the earth; and a great piece of the top of a rock which stood about half a mile from me next the sea fell down with such a terrible noise as I never heard in all my life.
-- It continued raining all that night and great part of the next day, so that I could not stir abroad; but my mind being more composed, I began to think of what I had best do; concluding that if the island was subject to these earthquakes, there would be no living for me in a cave, but I must consider of building a little hut in an open place which I might surround with a wall, as I had done here, and so make myself secure from wild beasts or men; for I conclud-ed, if I stayed where I was, I should certainly one time or other be buried alive.
-- I felled a cedar-tree, and I question much whether Solomon ever had such a one for the building of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was five feet ten inches diameter at the lower part next the stump, and four feet eleven inches diameter at the end of twenty-two feet; after which it lessened for a while, and then parted into branches.
-- It was a dismal sight to look at; the ship, which by its building was Spanish, stuck fast, jammed in between two rocks.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.
-- Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He contemplated increasing his Building and Loan payments.
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