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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We live in an atmosphere of riddles; I can't make head or tail of anything.
-- The beast stopped too, but its tail and claws still moved about.
-- The shell cracked in her teeth; and the tail and legs stuck out of her mouth and shook about in a horrible manner.
-- 'They couldn't tell me themselves; they couldn't make head or tail of it; but he frightened them all.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had received the wicked letter he first commanded Bellerophon to kill that savage monster, the Chimaera, who was not a human being, but a goddess, for she had the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent, while her body was that of a goat, and she breathed forth flames of fire; but Bellerophon slew her, for he was guided by signs from heaven.
-- The son of Peleus from the other side sprang forth to meet him, like some fierce lion that the whole country-side has met to hunt and kill at first he bodes no ill, but when some daring youth has struck him with a spear, he crouches open-mouthed, his jaws foam, he roars with fury, he lashes his tail from side to side about his ribs and loins, and glares as he springs straight before him, to find out whether he is to slay, or be slain among the foremost of his foes even with such fury did Achilles burn to spring upon Aeneas.
-- The end hairs of a horse's tail touch the tyre of the wheel, and there is never much space between wheel and horse when the chariot is going; Menelaus was no fur-ther than this behind Antilochus, though at first he had been a full disc's throw behind him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he came down the steps towards the tail of the cart as if to lay hands on the smaller crate.
-- His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was startled by a noise behind me, and turning sudden-ly saw the flapping white tail of a rabbit vanishing up the slope.
-- Hunter's cock-spur possibly you have heard of that flourished on the bull's neck; and the rhinoceros rats of the Algerian zouaves are also to be thought of, monsters manufactured by transfer-ring a slip from the tail of an ordinary rat to its snout, and allowing it to heal in that position.'
-- I saw something out of the tail of my eye, a red figure, and turned sharply.
-- I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer drip-ping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing chil-dren.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: 'Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves.
-- I am sleepy, Bagheera, and Shere Khan is all long tail and loud talk like Mao, the Peacock.'
-- But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.'
-- And most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.
-- I came very near to falling on my last hunt very near indeed and the noise of my slipping, for my tail was not tight wrapped around the tree, waked the Bandar-log, and they called me most evil names.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus a literal translation of the name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be 'The Tail of the Lake.'
-- Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and now, indeed, legally, called, forms a sort of tail to Lake Champlain, when viewed on the map.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck, and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and tail were tangled and knotted with burs; one eye had lost its pupil, and was glaring and spectral, but the other had the gleam of a genu-ine devil in it.
-- There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds, and the golden- winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gor-get, and splendid plumage; and the cedar-bird, with its red tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chat-tering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was quite clear that she could not make head or tail of my announcement.
-- He'll come back with his tail between his legs and settle down again quite comfortably."
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