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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hollow echo of its fall reminded the waggoner painfully of the grim Leveller.
-- The hollow seemed a nursery of pestilences small and great, in the immediate neighbourhood of comfort and health, and Bathsheba arose with a tremor at the thought of having passed the night on the brink of so dismal a place.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny Elsing, pale and hollow eyed since Gettysburg, wastrying to keep her mind from the torturing picture which had worn a groove in her tired mind these past several months Lieutenant Dallas McLure dying in a jolting ox cart in the rain on the long, terrible retreat into Maryland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, Pip," observed Joe, whose voice sounded hollow in his beer-mug.
-- Yet in the London streets so crowded with people and so brilliantly lighted in the dusk of evening, there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor old kitchen at home so far away; and in the dead of night, the footsteps of some incapable impostor of a porter mooning about Barnard's Inn, under pretence of watching it, fell hollow on my heart.
-- Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, "Good night, Mr. Pip," when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him.
-- In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next they came to a bees'-nest in a hollow tree, and there was so much honey that it ran down the trunk; and the two broth-ers wanted to light a fire under the tree and kill the bees, so as to get their honey.
-- As she was very tired, she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree and soon fell asleep: and there she slept on till it was midday.
-- And the huntsmen went up to the tree, and when they came back again said, 'In the hollow tree there lies a most won-derful beast, such as we never saw before; its skin seems to be of a thousand kinds of fur, but there it lies fast asleep.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 35The next thing he demanded was one of the hollow iron pil-lars; by which he meant my pocket pistols.
-- About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his maj-esty's bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first appre-hended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might 42 Gulliver's Travelsbe something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
-- That a proper quantity of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass or iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball of iron or lead, with such violence and speed, as nothing was able to sus-tain its force.
-- That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pave-ments, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.
-- I answered, 'that I came over the sea, from a far place, with many others of my own kind, in a great hollow vessel made of the bodies of trees: 296 Gulliver's Travelsthat my companions forced me to land on this coast, and then left me to shift for myself.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything being hollow and worthless, she had missed nothing and sacrificed nothing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 13 THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS Our supper was eaten with ease and rapidity, after which everybody did the best he could for himself within the hollow of the crater.
-- The bottom of the funnel-shaped hollow was about five hundred feet in circumference, by which it will be seen that the slope from the summit to the bottom was very gradual, and we were therefore clearly able to get there without much fatigue or difficulty.
-- The light of our Ruhmkorff's coil, increased tenfold by the myriad of prismatic masses of rock, sent its jets of fire in every direction, and I could fancy myself traveling through a huge hollow diamond, the rays of which produced myriads of extraordinary effects.
-- He looked at me with folded arms, and then allowed one sentence to escape, in hollow accents, from his lips: "All is over."
-- Gazing around, I began to think of the theory of the English captain who compared the earth to a vast hollow sphere in the interior of which the air is retained in a luminous state by means of atmospheric pressure, while two stars, Pluto and Proserpine, circled there in their mysterious orbits.
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：
-- He laughed a hollow laugh.
-- In the wood all was utterly inert and motionless, only great drops fell from the bare boughs, with a hollow little crash.
-- A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse.
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