castle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 城堡； (国际象棋中的) 车，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Lord Glenarvan is not at the castle just now," returned Lady Helena; "but I am his wife, and if I can do anything for you—""You are Lady Glenarvan?"
-- The servants of the Castle had hailed the project with loud acclamations—for it was to save their brothers—Scotchmen, like themselves—and Lord Glenarvan cordially joined his cheers with theirs, for the Lady of Luss.
-- He had been brought up at the castle by the Glenarvan family, and had turned out a capital sailor, having already given proof, in some of his long voyages, of his skill and energy and sang-froid.
-- "Very well, dear Edward, do the honors of the Castle then."
-- The laird of Malcolm Castle felt the presence of loved ones about him in the darkness as he wandered up and down the lonely strand.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes I went and climbed the mountain and stood there in the midst of the tall pines, all alone in the terrible silence, with our little village in the distance, and the sky so blue, and the sun so bright, and an old ruined castle on the mountain-side, far away.
-- Or if that were impossible he would like to be alone at home, on the terrace-without either Lebedeff or his chil-dren, or anyone else about him, and to lie there and think a day and night and another day again!He thought of the mountains-and especially of a certain spot which he used to frequent, whence he would look down upon the distant valleys and fields, and see the waterfall, far off, like a little silver thread, and the old ruined castle in the distance.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people's whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men's hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Castle of Indolence.
-- In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such like easily conquered adversaries, to contend with and had to make his way mere-ly through gates of iron and brass, and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie; and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
-- They were all poor country people in the church, for the castle in which the old family had lived, was an empty ruin, and there were none but humble folks for seven miles around.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "When I cut a joist last summer, intending to make a fence, you locked me up for three months in the castle to feed the insects.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was between them and my castle the creek, which I mentioned often in the first part of my story, where I landed my cargoes out of the ship; and this I saw plainly he must necessarily swim over, or the poor wretch would be taken there; but when the savage escaping came thither, he made nothing of it, though the tide was then up; but plunging in, swam through in about thirty strokes, or thereabouts, land-ed, and ran with exceeding strength and swiftness.
-- All this while I kept myself very close, not once dar-ing to stir out of my castle any farther than to my place of observation near the top of the hill: and very glad I was to think how well it was fortified.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, look at one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way; how long was HE at it, you reckon?'
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