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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He began to make rapidly for the yacht, beating the waves violently with his fins, and keeping his tail in a perfectly straight line.
-- He struggled desperately, but his captors were prepared for his violence, and had a long rope ready with a slip knot, which caught his tail and rendered him powerless at once.
-- For the first time, too, they saw here the "Lyre" bird, the tail of which resembles in form the graceful instrument of Orpheus.
-- It flew about among the tree ferns, and when its tail struck the branches, they were almost surprised not to hear the harmonious strains that inspired Amphion to rebuild the walls of Thebes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All felt that something had happened, some-thing had gone very far wrong indeed, but no one could make head or tail of the matter.
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：
-- Flossie came running with her tail lift-ed.
-- He stroked her tail with his hand, long and subtly taking in the curves and the globe-fullness.
-- 'Tha's got such a nice tail on thee,' he said, in the throaty caressive dialect.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Books and papers everywhere, a bro-ken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.
-- The minute he was put into bed on one side, he rolled out on the other, and made for the door, only to be ignominiously caught up by the tail of his little toga and put back again, which lively performance was kept up till the young man's strength gave out, when he de-voted himself to roaring at the top of his voice.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong.
-- It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes.
-- At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road-side door.
-- Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
-- Tied by the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies with its black hull close to the vessel's and seen through the darkness of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two ship and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one reclines while the other remains standing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bull's-eye wagged his tail in acknowledgment of this unusually endearing form of speech; and, giving vent to another admonitory growl for the benefit of Oliver, led the way onward.
-- Apparently, the dog had been somewhat deceived by Mr. Fagin's outer garment; for as the Jew unbuttoned it, and threw it over the back of a chair, he retired to the corner from which he had risen: wagging his tail as he went, to show that he was as well satisfied as it was in his nature to be.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every half-hour in the day the thought would come to her most sharply, like the tail of a swishing whip, that action--immediate action--was imperative.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There couldn't anything wake them up all over, and make them happy all over, like a dog fight unless it might be putting turpen-tine on a stray dog and setting fire to him, or tying a tin pan to his tail and see him run himself to death.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His tail was encased in a blue silk covering, which was to protect it from the rain.
-- The Poodle, to show that he understood, wagged his silk-covered tail two or three times and set off at a quick pace.
-- An immense Serpent lay stretched across the road--a Serpent with a bright green skin, fiery eyes which glowed and burned, and a pointed tail that smoked like a chimney.
-- His eyes closed and his tail stopped smoking.
-- At the sight of that pale little corpse, the boys were so frightened that they turned tail and ran.
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