star是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 星； 恒星； 明星v. 用星号标出； 扮演主角，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He informed Muishkin that his father had lately found a new interpretation of the star called 'wormwood,' which fell upon the water-springs, as described in the Apocalypse.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made a stream of fire flare from his shield and helmet like the star that shines most brilliantly in summer after its bath in the waters of Oceanus even such a fire did she kindle upon his head and shoulders as she bade him speed into the thickest hurly- burly of the fight.
-- Hector's round shield showed in the front rank, and as some baneful star that shines for a moment through a rent in the clouds and is again hidden beneath them; even so was Hector now seen in the front ranks and now again in the hindermost, and his bronze ar-mour gleamed like the lightning of aegis-bearing Jove.
-- King Priam was first to note him as he scoured the plain, all radiant as the star which men call Orion's Hound, and whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night; brightest of them all though he be, he yet bodes ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fe-ver in his train even so did Achilles' armour gleam on his breast as he sped onwards.
-- The thick tresses of gold with which Vulcan had crested the helmet floated round it, and as the evening star that shines brighter than all others through the stillness of night, even such was the gleam of the spear which Achilles poised in his right hand, fraught with the death of noble Hector.
-- At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron-mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be that save in this little planet, this speck of cos-mic dust, invisible long before the nearest star could be attained it may be, I say, that nowhere else does this thing called pain occur.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big parade of all the thirty thousand men was held that afternoon, and Vixen and I had a good place close to the Viceroy and the Amir of Afghanistan, with high, big black hat of astrakhan wool and the great diamond star in the center.
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：
-- His eye, alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wildness.
-- said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly; 'When the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water courses are full; when the moss on every beech he sees will tell him in what quarter the north star will shine at night.
-- An ambushment has been planted in the spot!No, by the truest rifle on the fron-tiers, here have been them one-sided horses again!Now the whole secret is out, and all is plain as the north star at mid-night.
-- Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lu-rid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens.
-- Duncan had no other guide than a distant glimmering light, which served, however, the office of a polar star tothe lover.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wavering reflec-tion of a silver star in the bosom of the brook told him that he was not mistaken.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Polar Star was not visible, the constellations were not those which they had been accustomed to see in the United States; the Southern Cross glittered brightly in the sky.
-- At the zenith glittered the splendid Antares in the Scorpion, and not far was Alpha Centauri, which is believed to be the nearest star to the terrestrial globe.
-- Then, as the crater widened, appeared Fomalhaut of the Fish, the Southern Triangle, and lastly, nearly at the Antarctic Pole, the glittering Southern Cross, which replaces the Polar Star of the Northern Hemisphere.
-- Cyrus Harding gazed for some time at this splendid constellation, which has at its summit and at its base two stars of the first magnitude, at its left arm a star of the second, and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude.
-- At this moment the Southern Cross presented itself to the observer in an inverted position, the star Alpha marking its base, which is nearer to the southern pole.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The child the bright star of the simple fellow's life she, who always came back upon him like a beautiful dream who had made the poorest part of his existence, the happiest and best who had ever been so gentle, and considerate, and good if she were ever to hear of this, what would she think!As this idea occurred to him, the walls of the prison seemed to melt away, and the old place to reveal itself in their stead, as it was wont to be on winter nights the fireside, the little supper table, the old man's hat, and coat, and stick the half-opened door, leading to her little room they were all there.
-- 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.
-- This is, beyond question, a bold and presumptuous doubt, inasmuch as many distinguished characters, called men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows, capital hands at business, and the like, have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glancing upward, I saw the aperture, a small blue disc, in which a star was visible, while little Weena's head showed as a round black projection.
-- The clear blue of the distance faded, and one star after another came out.
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