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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots.
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：
-- Both man and horse were sweating with violence.
-- Gerald suddenly let go the horse and leaped forwards, almost on to Gudrun.
-- Then the mare's hoofs had danced three times on the drum-like sleepers of the crossing, and man and horse were bounding springily, unequally up the road.
-- "Why couldn't he take the horse away, till the trucks had gone by?
-- Let it be a dark horse for once," she said: "if anything can be a dark horse to you," she added satirically.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
-- Hindley named a fiddle, and then he asked Miss Cathy; she was hardly six years old, but she could ride any horse in the stable, and she chose a whip.
-- Bud I can look for norther horse nur man of a neeght loike this as black as t' chimbley!und Heathcliff's noan t' chap to coom at MY whistle happen he'll be less hard o' hearing wi' YE!
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having four feet, these managed rather better than the foot-soldiers: but even they stumbled now and then; and it seemed to be a regular rule that, whenever a horse stumbled the rider fell off instantly.
-- Just as he reached her, the horse stopped suddenly: 'You're my prisoner!'
-- He drew up at Alice's side, and tumbled off his horse just as the Red Knight had done: then he got on again, and the two Knights sat and looked at each other for some time without speaking.
-- That's the reason the horse has all those anklets round his feet.'
-- Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old Benbow.
-- Soon after, Dr. Livesey's horse came to the door and he rode away, but the captain held his peace that evening, and for many evenings to come.
-- Tom had leaped at the sound, like a horse at the spur, but Silver had not winked an eye.
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