hollow是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 空的， 中空的； 空洞的， 空虚的v. 挖空， 凿空，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：
-- He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes.
-- Now that he had no work to hold, he laid the knuck-les of the right hand in the hollow of the left, and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right, and then passed a hand across his bearded chin, and so on in regular changes, without a moment's intermission.
-- Also, I see that their long shadows are on the hollow ridge on the opposite side of the road, and are on the hill above it, and are like the shadows of giants.
-- That honest tradesman's manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs, and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with a very questionable closeness of atten-tion; and whenever Mr. Lorry's eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.
-- But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went up to the top, turned back again and started mowing, and they all proceeded to form in line behind him, going downhill through the hollow and uphill right up to the edge of the forest.
-- "And now that bent, hollow chest...and I, not knowing what will become of me, or wherefore..." "K...ha!K...ha!Damnation!Why do you keep fidgeting, why don't you go to sleep?"
-- One of the volunteers, a tall, very young man with a hollow chest, was particularly conspicuous, bowing and waving his felt hat and a nosegay over his head.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her head was in the hollow of his arm; she was weeping, hard; he was stroking her hair, not covetously now but tenderly, and he was whispering: "Darling!I almost feel as if I dared to love you.
-- He blurted that they must be going-- Leora really had to be back-- The trolleys ran infrequently after midnight and they walked to the hospital through hollow and sounding streets.
-- He was summoned into the reception- room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.
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：
-- Under the stone was a small hollow in the ground, and he immedi-ately emptied his pocket into it.
-- The purse lay at the top, and yet the hollow was not filled up.
-- I would lift that stone there would sure to be a hollow under it, and I would put the jew-els and money in that hole.
-- His heart felt hollow and empty.
-- A terrible hollow cough interrupted her words.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a gaunt, sallow youngman, with hollow cheeks, and a chin almost as black as Mr.Murdstone's; but there the likeness ended, for his whiskers wereshaved off, and his hair, instead of being glossy, was rusty anddry.
-- and voted himselfinto the charge of the wine-cellar, which he constructed, being aningenious beast, in the hollow trunk of a tree.
-- I was very merry, Iknow; but it was hollow merriment.
-- But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen andladies, Julia, and when its breeding is professed indifference to 808everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think wemust have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and hadbetter find the way out.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The outskirts of this level water-meadow were diversified by rounded and hollow pastures, where just now every flower that was not a buttercup was a daisy.
-- THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNSThe hill opposite Bathsheba's dwelling extended, a mile off, into an uncultivated tract of land, dotted at this season with tall thickets of brake fern, plump and diaphanous from recent rapid growth, and radiant in hues of clear and untainted green.
-- There was not a sound of life save that acme and sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox, its three hollow notes being rendered at intervals of a minute with the precision of a funeral bell.
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