timber是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 木材， 木料，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When great masses of stone and timber fell, the face with 329the two dints in the nose became obscured: anon struggled out of the smoke again, as if it were the face of the cruel Mar-quis, burning at the stake and contending with the fire.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was yes, guess!It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and had tumbled and turned about amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last laid for many years in the ground.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 30 At the end of September the timber had been carted for building the cattleyard on the land that had been allotted to the association of peasants, and the butter from the cows was sold and the profits divided.
-- Felling timber must be punished as severely as possible, but he could not exact forfeits for cattle being driven onto his fields; and though it annoyed the keeper and made the peasants not afraid to graze their cattle on his land, he could not keep their cattle as a punishment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulnesson my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch;and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantlyturning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of theirunwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives,and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short weran the whole crocodile gauntlet.
-- Shestarted from my side, and ran along a jagged timber whichprotruded from the place we stood upon, and overhung the deepwater at some height, without the least defence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fair-ly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situa-tion, low and sheltered its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up. The house was larger than Hartfield, and totally unlike it, covering a good deal of ground, rambling and irregular, with many com-436 Emmafortable, and one or two handsome rooms. It was just what it ought to be, and it looked what it was and Emma felt an increasing respect for it, as the residence of a family of such true gentility, untainted in blood and understanding. Some faults of temper John Knightley had; but Isabella had connected herself unexceptionably.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So he says," resumed the convict I had recognized,--"it was all said and done in half a minute, behind a pile of timber in the Dock-yard,--'You're a going to be discharged?'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.
-- In the large pocket, on the right side of his middle cover' (so I translate the word ranfulo, by which they meant my breeches,) 'we saw a hol-low pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber larger than the pillar; and upon one side of the pillar, were huge pieces of iron sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make of.
-- aving travelled about three miles, we came to a long Hkind of building, made of timber stuck in the ground, and wattled across; the roof was low and covered with straw.
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：
-- So Sir Geoffrey felled timber and stood for Lloyd George and England, England and Lloyd George.
-- 'Come and sit 'ere i' th' 'ut,' he said, going in front of her to the hut, pushing aside some timber and stuff, and draw-ing out a rustic chair, made of hazel sticks.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It turned out to be Captain Bildad, who along with Captain Peleg was one of the largest owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children, and chancery wards; each owning about the value of a timber head, or a foot of plank, or a nail or two in the ship.
-- They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.
-- cried Stubb; "if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham.'
-- Oliver's vigorous plunges against the bit of timber in question, rendered this occurance highly probable.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- - I set up all my chests and boards, and the piec-es of timber which made my rafts, and with them formed a fence round me, a little within the place I had marked out for my fortification.
-- I continued this work every day to the 15th of June, except the time neces-sary to get food, which I always appointed, during this part of my employment, to be when the tide was up, that I might be ready when it was ebbed out; and by this time I had got timber and plank and ironwork enough to have built a good boat, if I had known how; and also I got, at several times and in several pieces, near one hundredweight of the sheet lead.
-- I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.
-- He did so, and had but just time to get away, when the wolves came up to it, and some got upon it, when I, snapping an unchanged pistol close to the powder, set it on fire; those that were upon the timber were scorched with it, and six or seven of them fell; or rather jumped in among us with the force and fright of the fire; we despatched these in an instant, and the rest were so frightened with the light, which the night - for it was now very near dark - made more terrible that they drew back a little; upon which I ordered our last pistols to be fired off in one volley, and after that we gave a shout; upon this the wolves turned tail, and we sallied immediately upon near twenty lame ones that we found struggling on the ground, and fell to cutting them with our swords, which answered our expectation, for the crying and howling they made was better understood by their fellows; so that they all fled and left us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in such respectable and excellent condition! and his woods! I have not seen such timber any where in Dorsetshire, as there is now standing in Delaford Hanger! And though, perhaps, Marianne may not seem exactly the person to attract him yet I think it would altogether be advisable for you to have them now frequently staying with you, for as Colonel Brandon seems a great deal at home, nobody can tell what may happen for, when people are much thrown together, and see little of anybody else and it will always be in your power to set her off to advantage, and so forth; in short, you may as well give her a chance You understand me.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if you didn't know where it was.
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