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 centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You are hard as the axe which a shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his liking.
-- He fell as an oak, or poplar, or pine which shipwrights have felled for ship's timber upon the mountains with whetted axes even thus did he lie full length in front of his chariot and horses, grinding his teeth and clutching at the bloodstained dust.
-- He fell like some oak or silver poplar or tall pine to which woodmen have laid their axes upon the mountains to make timber for ship-building even so did he lie stretched at full length in front of his chariot and horses, moaning and clutching at the blood-stained dust.
-- Or as mules that put forth all their strength to draw some beam or great piece of ship's timber down a rough mountain-track, and they pant and sweat as they, go even so did Menelaus and pant and sweat as they bore the body of Patroclus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fire beside me had sunk down, and only charred beams of timber glowing at the central ends and mixed with a grey ash of brushwood re-mained.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Damp rotten houses, many to let, many yet building, many half-built and mouldering away lodgings, where it would be hard to tell which needed pity most, those who let or those who came to take children, scantily fed and clothed, spread over every street, and sprawling in the dust scolding mothers, stamping their slipshod feet with noisy threats upon the pavement shabby fathers, hurrying with dispirited looks to the occupation which brought them 'daily bread' and little more mangling-women, washer-women, cobblers, tailors, chandlers, driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back room and garrets, and sometimes all of them under the same roof brick-fields skirting gardens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the flames mounds of dock-weed, nettles, coarse grass and oyster-shells, heaped in rank confusion small dissenting chapels to teach, with no lack of illustration, the miseries of Earth, and plenty of new churches, erected with a little superfluous wealth, to show the way to Heaven.
-- At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails.
-- 'Then we get a bit of timber in, Sir,' retorted Brass.
-- 'Ha, ha, ha!We get a bit of timber in, Sir, and that's another advantage of my sister's going to market for us.
-- A mass of timber on its head, carved into the dim and distant semblance of a cocked hat, together with a representation of a star on the left breast and epaulettes on the shoulders, denoted that it was intended for the effigy of some famous admiral; but, without those helps, any observer might have supposed it the authentic portrait of a distinguished merman, or great sea-monster.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- lower than the one prevailing in the district, and Nekhludoff's income was reduced to almost one-half, but, with money realized from the sale of the timber and yet to be realized from the sale of the stock, it was amply sufficient for him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, here it is: What could I do, with this old timber I hobble on?
-- "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg.
-- I was going to forget my timber leg, I was.
-- The slopes of the knoll and all the inside of the stockade had been cleared of timber to build the house, and we could see by the stumps what a fine and lofty grove had been destroyed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The small timber room glowed with the dawn, that came upwards from the low window.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern.
-- We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us.
-- It had the big timber of a regular island; it might be five or six miles long and more than half a mile wide.
-- It was a monstrous big river here, with the tallest and the thickest kind of timber on both banks; just a solid wall, as well as I could see by the stars.
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