tail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 尾巴； 尾部； 跟踪者vt. 尾随， 跟踪，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an inconsistent and ubiquitous fiend too, for, while it was making the whole night behind him dreadful, he darted out into the roadway to avoid dark alleys, fearful of its coming hopping out of them like a dropsical boy's-Kite without tail and wings.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The calf, fumbling, poked her nose under her mother's udder, and stiffened her tail out straight.
-- With a wave of his short tail he disappeared from Vronsky's sight.
-- One of the horses, a sleek, dark-brown three-year-old, seeing the dog, started away, switched its tail and snorted.
-- Her tail was stretched straight and tense, and only wagging at the extreme end.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her thin, light hair, streaked with grey, thickly smeared with grease, was plaited in a rat's tail and fastened by a broken horn comb which stood out on the nape of her neck.
-- 'As far as I am concerned, you may all go to hell, but from what I see, it's clear to me that I can't make head or tail of it; please don't think I've come to ask you questions.
-- A dirty, shivering dog crossed his path with its tail between its legs.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was a donkey,' said my aunt; 'and it was the one with thestumpy tail which that Murdering sister of a woman rode, whenshe came to my house.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
-- Inside the blue door, open half-way down, were to be seen at this time the backs and tails of half-a-dozen warm and contented horses standing in their stalls; and as thus viewed, they presented alternations of roan and bay, in shapes like a Moorish arch, the tail being a streak down the midst of each.
-- The top and tail o't is this that I am sniffing about here, and waiting for poor Boldwood's farm, with a thought of getting you some day."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he shot his arrow at the fox; but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood.
-- Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind.
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
-- Now Sultan had no- 29body he could ask to be his second but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her tail straight in the air.
-- The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck, I thoroughly despatched it.
-- Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own efflu-via, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very 205narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us.
-- For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went round to our children, one after another, as if he wath a theeking for a child he know'd; and then he come to me, and throwd hithelf up behind, and thtood on hith two forelegth, weak ath he wath, and then he wagged hith tail and died.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This one measures not less than a hundred feet in length, and I can form some idea of his girth when I see him lift his prodigious tail out of the waters.
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：
-- The one that got her first was the real dog among dogs, if you go by success!So Michaelis could keep his tail up.
-- Yet he worked on, as if absorbedly, and his brown dog sat on her tail near him, and surveyed the untrustworthy world.
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