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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They passed several farms fortified by battlements and surrounded by a deep moat, the principal building being encircled by a terrace, from which the inhabitants could fire down on the marauders in the plain.
-- John had given all his attention to the building of this structure.
-- For instance, a native is tabooed for several days when his hair is cut; when he is tattooed; when he is building a canoe, or a house; when he is seriously ill, and when he is dead.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the fading light I could see that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been incon-sistent with her character if in these visits she had been pursuing a chimera; her project was not chimerical at all; she was building on a firm basis on her knowledge of the character of the Epanchin family, especially Aglaya, whom she studied closely.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fools, for having thought of building this weak and worthless wall.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is building up as well as breaking down and changing.
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 rude and neglected building was one of those deserted works, which, having been thrown up on an emergency, had been abandoned with the disappearance of danger, and was now quietly crumbling in the solitude of the forest, ne-glected and nearly forgotten, like the circumstances which had caused it to be reared.
-- While Hey-ward and his companions hesitated to approach a building so decayed, Hawkeye and the Indians entered within the low walls, not only without fear, but with obvious interest.
-- A corner of the building was then roofed in such a manner as to exclude the heavy dew of the climate, and piles of sweet shrubs and dried leaves were laid beneath it for the sisters to repose on.
-- 'Nay, Duncan, deny it not,' interrupted the smiling Al-ice, issuing from the shadows of the building into the light of the moon, in all the loveliness of her freshened beauty; 'I know you to be a heedless one, when self is the object of your care, and but too vigilant in favor of others.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
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：
-- The Asile de Nuit is a large stone building where pauper and vagabond may get a bed for a week, provided their papers are in order and they can persuade the friars in charge that they are workingmen.
-- When I was building my house in the Paumotus I had slept out for weeks on a harder bed than that, with nothing to shelter me but wild shrubs; and as for vermin, my tough skin should be proof against their malice.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDER-BOX--THE EYE THAT IS GREEN Hurstwood's residence on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, was a brick building of a very popular type then, a three-story affair with the first floor sunk a very little below the level of the street.
-- "Jack told me they were going to put up a six-story building next spring in Robey Street."
-- One of the galling incidents of this visit was that he came back on a Randolph Street car, and without noticing arrived almost opposite the building of the concern with which his son was connected.
-- For a long while she concerned herself over the arrangement of New York flats, and wondered at ten families living in one building and all remaining strange and indifferent to each other.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- See Pinocchio hurrying off to school with his new A-B-C book under his arm!As he walked along, his brain was busy planning hundreds of wonderful things, building hundreds of castles in the air.
-- Suddenly, he found himself in a large square, full of people standing in front of a little wooden building painted in brilliant colors.
-- "He was building a little boat with which to cross the ocean.
-- "Just to give you an idea of his size, let me tell you that he is larger than a five story building and that he has a mouth so big and so deep, that a whole train and engine could easily get into it."
-- She was dead, and the Pigeon, seeing me crying, said to me, 'I have seen your father building a boat to look for you in America,' and I said to him, 'Oh, if I only had wings!'
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