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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the intrepid woman who was his wife, and a few natives, he landed there, and set about building a house, and clearing the scrub so that he could plant cocoa-nuts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A practiced workman can make, without a machine, about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on Lincoln Island had not made more than three thousand, which were ranged near each other, until the time when their complete desiccation would permit them to be used in building the oven, that is to say, in three or four days.
-- "In fact," said the reporter, "instead of building a house it would be more important to build a boat, if by chance we are not more than a hundred miles from an inhabited coast."
-- "Well," replied the engineer, "instead of building a house we will build a boat, and Master Pencroft shall be put in command " "Well then," cried the sailor, "I am quite ready to be captain as soon as you can make a craft that's able to keep at sea!"
-- "Yes," replied Harding, "there will be new continents which millions and millions of animalculae are building at this moment."
-- He knew as much about ship- building as about nearly everything else, and he had at first drawn the model of his ship on paper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The water and all upon it was in active motion, dancing and buoyant and bubbling up; while the old grey Tower and piles of building on the shore, with many a church-spire shooting up between, looked coldly on, and seemed to disdain their chafing, restless neighbour.
-- The windows broken, the rusty sashes rattling in their frames, the deserted house a dull barrier dividing the glaring lights and bustle of the street into two long lines, and standing in the midst, cold, dark, and empty presented a cheerless spectacle which mingled harshly with the bright prospects the boy had been building up for its late inmates, and came like a disappointment or misfortune.
-- They had proceeded thus, in silence, for some quarter of an hour, and had lost sight of the glare to which he had pointed, in the dark and narrow ways by which they had come, when it suddenly burst upon them again, streaming up from the high chimney of a building close before them.
-- When she awoke again, broad day was shining through the lofty openings in the walls, and, stealing in slanting rays but midway down, seemed to make the building darker than it had been at night.
-- cried the delighted schoolmaster in a low voice; 'and that old building close beside it, is the schoolhouse, I'll be sworn.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the time when Maslova, exhausted by the long walk, was approaching with the armed convoy the building in which court was held, the same nephew of the ladies that brought her up, Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhludoff, who deceived her, lay on his high, soft, spring feather-bed, in spotless Holland linen, smoking a cigarette.
-- When he considered it necessary to curtail his needs, wore an old coat and gave up wine-drinking, everybody considered it eccentric and vain originality; but when he spent large sums in organizing a chase, or building an unusual, luxurious cabinet, everybody praised his taste and sent him valuable gifts.
-- To the right stood a few frame houses; to the left a two- story building over which hung a large sign.
-- On one of the streets the driver, who was a middle-aged man with an intelligent and good-natured face, turned to Nekhludoff and pointed to an immense building going up.
-- "What a huge building there is going up!"
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions.
-- The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position.
-- "I looked for the building I knew.
-- Then, sobbing and raving in my anguish of mind, I went down to the great building of stone.
-- And turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building which my fancy had chosen as our dwelling.
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 was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.
-- The cold evening breeze, of which I have spoken, whistled through every chink of the rude building and sprinkled the floor with a continual rain of fine sand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is also said that the Bishop of Nidros was building an altar on an immense rock.
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