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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no one to bring the horse to the saddle, so she took the saddle to the horse.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The English ship Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head; and, as for his strength, let me say, that there have been examples where the lines attached to a running sperm whale have, in a calm, been transferred to the ship, and secured there; the whale towing her great hull through the water, as a horse walks off with a cart.
-- even as a man who rides a horse is called a horseman?
-- Well, one day we lowered for a pod of four or five whales, and my boat fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went milling and milling round so, that my boat's crew could only trim dish, by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale.
-- Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in whose sunset suns still rise) was a wilderness and a virgin, the same number of moccasined men, for the same number of months, mounted on horse instead of sailing in ships, would have slain not forty, but forty thousand and more buffaloes; a fact that, if need were, could be statistically stated.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody knows the story of another experimental philosopher who had a great theory about a horse being able to live without eating, and who demonstrated it so well, that he had got his own horse down to a straw a day, and would unquestionably have rendered him a very spirited and rampacious animal on nothing at all, if he had not died, four-and-twenty hours before he was to have had his first comfortable bait of air.
-- The driver wanted no directions, but lashed his horse into full speed, without the delay of an instant.
-- My horse hasn't got a load behind him going back, as he had coming up in the mornin'; and he won't be long a-doing of it.
-- Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind-legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly.
-- This gentleman walked with much deliberation into the bar to make out the bill: which t ook a long time making out: and after it was ready, and paid, a horse had to be saddled, and a man to be dressed, which took up ten good minutes more.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had they been only ten min-utes sooner, they should have been beyond the reach of his discrimination; for it was plain that he was that moment arrived that moment alighted from his horse or his car-riage.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me, 'Go fetch more boat;' so away he went like the wind, for sure never man or horse ran like him; and he had the other canoe in the creek almost as soon as I got to it by land; so he wafted me over, and then went to help our new guests out of the boat, which he did; but they were neither of them able to walk; so that poor Friday knew not what to do.
-- But it was enough to have terrified a bolder man than I; and, indeed, it alarmed all our company, when, with the noise of Friday's pistol, we heard on both sides the most dis-mal howling of wolves; and the noise, redoubled by the echo of the mountains, appeared to us as if there had been a pro-digious number of them; and perhaps there was not such a few as that we had no cause of apprehension: however, as Friday had killed this wolf, the other that had fastened upon the horse left him immediately, and fled, without doing him any damage, having happily fastened upon his head, where the bosses of the bridle had stuck in his teeth.
-- As soon as the bear felt the blow, and saw him, he turns about and comes after him, taking very long strides, and shuffling on at a strange rate, so as would have put a horse to a middling gallop; away reins Fri-day, and takes his course as if he ran towards us for help; so we all resolved to fire at once upon the bear, and deliver my man; though I was angry at him for bringing the bear back upon us, when he was going about his own business another way; and especially I was angry that he had turned the bear upon us, and then ran away; and I called out, 'You dog!is this your making us laugh?
-- The first object we met with was a dead horse; that is to say, a poor horse which the wolves had killed, and at least a dozen of them at work, we could not say eating him, but picking his bones rather; for they had eaten up all the flesh before.
-- On a sudden, at another open-ing of the wood, we heard the noise of a gun, and looking that way, out rushed a horse, with a saddle and a bridle on him, flying like the wind, and sixteen or seventeen wolves after him, full speed: the horse had the advantage of them; but as we supposed that he could not hold it at that rate, we doubted not but they would get up with him at last: no ques-tion but they did.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to an additional servant, the expense would be a trifle; Mama she was sure would never object to it; and any horse would do for HIM; he might always get one at the park; as to a stable, the merest shed would be sufficient.
-- I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.
-- His concern however was very apparent; and after expressing it with earnestness, he added, in the same low voice, "But, Marianne, the horse is still yours, though you cannot use it now.
-- He dismounted, and giving his horse to his servant, walked back with them to Barton, whither he was purposely coming to visit them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in a neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class--the first grade below the luxuriously rich.
-- There was also a small rear yard, walled in by the fences of the neighbours and holding a stable where he kept his horse and trap.
-- The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dray horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter.
-- "You can handle a horse as well as any one, after a little practice," he added, encouragingly.
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