horse是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 马； 跳马， 鞍马v. 骑马，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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse that fell was strained in the left shoulder, but the rider got no hurt; and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could: however, I would not trust to the strength of it any more, in such dangerous en-terprises.
-- He then commanded his general (who was an old ex-perienced leader, and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast, and the horse by sixteen, with drums 43beating, colours flying, and pikes advanced.
-- '5th, If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man- mountain shall be obliged to carry, in his pocket, the messenger and horse a six days journey, once in every moon, and return the said messenger back (if so required) safe to our imperial presence.
-- But ad-vancing forward towards my master (as I shall henceforth 106 Gulliver's Travelscall him,) his youngest son, who sat next to him, an arch boy of about ten years old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I trembled every limb: but his fa-ther snatched me from him, and at the same time gave him such a box on the left ear, as would have felled an European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the table.
-- However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but of half an hour: for the horse went about forty feet at every step and trotted so high, that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know what a horse is.'
-- I asked her if she would know how to define a horse to-morrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked.
-- The Pegasus's legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, the Pegasus's Arms was inscribed in Roman letters.
-- Here his daughter Josephine a pretty fair-haired girl of eighteen, who had been tied on a horse at two years old, and had made a will at twelve, which she always carried about with her, expressive of her dying desire to be drawn to the grave by the two piebald ponies cried, 'Father, hush!she has come back!'
-- So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many hundred horse Steam Power.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As there was nothing I liked better than horse exercise, the pleasure of riding through an unknown country caused the early part of our enterprise to be particularly agreeable to me.
-- To ride over salt water upon the back of a little horse seemed to me absurd.
-- His horse went to the very edge of the water, sniffed at the approaching wave and retreated.
-- This attempt was followed by a new refusal on the part of the horse which quietly shook his head.
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：
-- 'Quite!No more black horse to thrash and maltreat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Principal and instrument soon drove off together to a stable-yard in High Holborn, where a remarkably fine grey gelding, worth, at the lowest figure, seventy-five guineas (not taking into account the value of the shot he had been made to swallow for the improvement of his form), was to be parted with for a twenty-pound note, in consequence of his having run away last week with Mrs Captain Barbary of Cheltenham, who wasn't up to a horse of his courage, and who, in mere spite, insisted on selling him for that ridiculous sum: or, in other words, on giving him away.
-- Plornish, going up this yard alone and leaving his Principal outside, found a gentleman with tight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue neckerchief (Captain Maroon of Gloucestershire, a private friend of Captain Barbary); who happened to be there, in a friendly way, to mention these little circumstances concerning the remarkably fine grey gelding to any real judge of a horse and quick snapper-up of a good thing, who might look in at that address as per advertisement.
-- There was a dinner giving in the Harley Street establishment, while Little Dorrit was stitching at her father's new shirts by his side that night; and there were magnates from the Court and magnates from the City, magnates from the Commons and magnates from the Lords, magnates from the bench and magnates from the bar, Bishop magnates, Treasury magnates, Horse Guard magnates, Admiralty magnates, all the magnates that keep us going, and sometimes trip us up.
-- 'I am told,' said Bishop magnate to Horse Guards, 'that Mr Merdle has made another enormous hit.
-- Horse Guards had heard two.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small fur-nace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
-- A very merry lunch it was, for everything seemed fresh and funny, and frequent peals of laughter startled a venerable horse who fed near by.
-- To my friend and neighbor Theodore Laurence I be-queethe my paper mashay portfolio, my clay model of a horse though he did say it hadn't any neck.
-- She heard of a young horse at the farm house over the river, and though a lady had never ridden him, she resolved to try, because he was handsome and spir-ited.
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