mob是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 乌合之众(尤指暴力者) vi. 围攻， 聚众闹事，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：
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even the tiger will charge a mob of cattle.
-- Every night a mob of these horses would be sure to break their heel ropes and stampede up and down the camp through the mud in the dark, or the camels would break loose and run about and fall over the ropes of the tents, and you can imagine how pleasant that was for men trying to go to sleep.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett thought: He's got courage, coming here at this time when it wouldn'ttake anything to make this mob tear him to pieces because he isn't in uniform.
-- She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of FivePoints, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.
-- There were women in the mob near Decatur Street, garishly dressed women whose bright finery and painted facesgave a discordant note of holiday.
-- When she had shoved and pushed her way through the mob for a block beyond Five Points the crowd thinned alittle and, gathering up her skirts, she began to run again.
-- I thought by circling around the center of town, we mightavoid the fire and that drunken mob on Decatur Street and get through to the southwest part of town without anydanger.
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：
-- "It's the golden mob of the proletariat, surrounded by a showy white fence of the idle rich."
-- Then there was the far-off sound of firing, then the later news that the mob was dispersed, one man was shot dead, the fire was put out.
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：
-- But you see, even a low bitch like that turns on him, and uses the hyena instinct of the mob against sex, to pull him down.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Remembering, however, that in the Parliamentary debates, whether on the life of that nation's body or the life of its soul, the question was usually all about and between John Barnacle, Augustus Stiltstalking, William Barnacle and Tudor Stiltstalking, Tom, Dick, or Harry Barnacle or Stiltstalking, and nobody else; he said nothing on the part of mob, bethinking himself that mob was used to it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lot is Jonah's; that discovered, then how furiously they mob him with their questions.
-- Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.
-- Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.
-- But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cars were assailed, men attacked, policemen struggled with, tracks torn up, and shots fired, until at last street fights and mob movements became frequent, and the city was invested with militia.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Children was heeling it ahead of the mob, screaming and trying to get out of the way; and ev-ery window along the road was full of women's heads, and there was nigger boys in every tree, and bucks and wenches looking over every fence; and as soon as the mob would get nearly to them they would break and skaddle back out of reach.
-- But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
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