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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little band then continued their march forward, searching into every hollow of the shore.
-- We might give to that vast bay on the east the name of Union Bay, for example; to that large hollow on the south, Washington Bay; to the mountain upon which we are standing, that of Mount Franklin; to that lake which is extended under our eyes, that of Lake Grant; nothing could be better, my friends.
-- "Couldn't we enlarge it, hollow it out, make openings to let in light and air?"
-- "Look well, Neb, and if you find one hollow tooth in this set, I will let you pull out half a dozen!"
-- The two great barrels, hermetically sealed, but which sounded hollow and empty, were fastened to its sides by strong ropes, knotted with a skill which Pencroft directly pronounced sailors alone could exhibit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We call this a state of childishness, but it is the same poor hollow mockery of it, that death is of sleep.
-- A group of idle urchins had taken possession of the door-steps; some were plying the knocker and listening with delighted dread to the hollow sounds it spread through the dismantled house; others were clustered about the keyhole, watching half in jest and half in earnest for 'the ghost,' which an hour's gloom, added to the mystery that hung about the late inhabitants, had already raised.
-- Mr Codlin on the other hand, cursed his fate, and all the hollow things of earth (but Punch especially), and limped along with the theatre on his back, a prey to the bitterest chagrin.
-- But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below.
-- The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then, again, about the Time Machine: something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, blinking lazily at Alice, and speaking in a deep hollow tone that sounded like the tolling of a great bell.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly.
-- Right below it there was an exceedingly small hollow of green turf, hidden by banks and a thick underwood about knee-deep, that grew there very plentifully; and in the centre of the dell, sure enough, a little tent of goat-skins, like what the gipsies carry about with them in England.
-- And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.
-- At the same time, he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us two and the other five.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the Nautilus men gave me a simple gun, the butt end of which, made of steel, hollow in the centre, was rather large.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held her in the hollow of his will, and she was soft, secret, invisible in her stirring there.
-- In front, it looked over a lawn, over a few trees, down to a string of fish-ponds in the hollow of the silent park.
-- Then, a real shock to her, there came a loud splashing of water from out of the dark, tree-filled hollow beyond the road, a splashing that deepened rapidly to a harsh roar, and then became a heavy, booming noise of a great body of water falling solidly all the time.
-- And he, who triumphed in the world, he became more and more hollow in his vitality, the vitality was bled from within him, as by some h脙娄morrhage.
-- He got large stones, and threw them, one after the other, at the white-burning centre of the moon, till there was nothing but a rocking of hollow noise, and a pond surged up, no moon any more, only a few broken flakes tangled and glittering broadcast in the darkness, without aim or meaning, a darkened confusion, like a black and white kaleidoscope tossed at random.
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