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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All went well till they reached the middle of the Wimerra, but then the hollow deepened, and the water rose to the middle of the wheels.
-- They examined the ponderous vehicle, and found it sunk in the mud in a deep hollow in the stiff clay.
-- "We have only to cut down a tree and hollow it out, and get in and be off."
-- The geographer recognized that it was so, from their eye sockets being hollow and deprived of eye-balls.
-- For about half an hour the funeral procession remained out of sight, in the hollow valley, and then came in sight again winding up the mountain side; the distance gave a fantastic effect to the undulating movement of this long serpentine column.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the distant hollow on the left, half hid-den by the mist, the two thin towers of Baskerville Hall rose above the trees.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wild-fire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore.
-- After these he struck Chersidamas in the loins under his shield as he had just sprung down from his chariot; so he fell in the dust and clutched the earth in the hollow of his hand.
-- Her swift ar-rows were shed upon the ground, and she fled weeping from under Juno's hand as a dove that flies before a falcon to the cleft of some hollow rock, when it is her good fortune to es-cape.
-- He hit Ajax in the hollow at back of his knee, so that he could not keep his feet, but fell on his back with Ulysses lying upon his chest, and all who saw it marvelled.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I struggled in vain, I was forced over the brink, the coffin rang hollow as I fell upon it, and the gravel came flying after me in spadefuls.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
-- There were white-tusked wild males, with fallen leaves and nuts and twigs lying in the wrinkles of their necks and the folds of their ears; fat, slow-footed she-elephants, with restless, little pinky black calves only three or four feet high running under their stomachs; young elephants with their tusks just beginning to show, and very proud of them; lanky, scraggy old-maid elephants, with their hollow anxious fac-es, and trunks like rough bark; savage old bull elephants, scarred from shoulder to flank with great weals and cuts of bygone fights, and the caked dirt of their solitary mud baths dropping from their shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger's claws on his side.
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：
-- At times it rose to the full-est compass of the rich voices of the females, who hung over their little book in holy excitement, and again it sank so low, that the rushing of the waters ran through their mel-ody, like a hollow accompaniment.
-- whispered the scout, when they had gained a little distance from the place, and letting his rifle fall into the hollow of his arm again; 'I soon saw that he was one of them uneasy Frenchers; and well for him it was that his speech was friendly and his wishes kind, or a place might have been found for his bones among those of his countrymen.'
-- They had proceeded only a hundred yards from the works, when the little array which attended the French gen-eral to the conference was seen issuing from the hollow way which formed the bed of a brook that ran between the bat-teries of the besiegers and the fort.
-- 'Magua slept hard in the English wigwams, and the sticks have left their mark,' returned the savage, with a hollow laugh, which did not conceal the fierce temper that nearly choked him.
-- Without deigning to bestow further words, or to wait for any answer, the savage cast his rifle into the hollow of his arm, and moved silently through the encampment to-ward the woods where his own tribe was known to lie.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir-rel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
-- Several of the Sleepy Hollow people were present at Van Tassel's, and, as usual, were doling out their wild and won-derful legends.
-- The old farmers gath-ered together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
-- This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story; and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
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：
-- Of their elders some, by imitating the antics of youth, strive to persuade themselves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds hollow in their mouth; they are like poor wantons attempting with pencil, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety, to recover the illusion of their spring.
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