cell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 细胞； 小房间； 蜂房； 电池，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I knew,' said Defarge, looking down at his wife, who stood at the bottom of the steps on which he was raised, looking steadily up at him; 'I knew that this prisoner, of whom I speak, had been confined in a cell known as One Hundred and Five, North Tower.
-- 454 A tale of two citiesX The Substance of the Shadow , Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of 'IBeauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year, 1767.
-- I try it with these details, and I see them all, in this my cell in the Bastille, near the close of the tenth year of my captivity, as I saw them all that night.
-- * * * * 'I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an un-derground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her gentle "I trust you" and her wambling "I'll try to" were warring in his ears as he plunged out of the suffocating cell and returned to Clif.
-- Suddenly he was so weak, so tired, that the mysterious cement which holds cell to cell seemed dissolved, and he felt that he was collapsing.
-- He discovered nothing but shadows of what had been bacteria: thin outlines, the form still there but the cell substance gone; minute skeletons on an infinitesimal battlefield.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall simply require to be deposited in that place ofuniversal resort, where '"Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, Therude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any had, it had still felt for it a love like that which captives have been known to bear towards the cell in which they have been long confined, and, even at parting, hung upon its narrow bounds affectionately.
-- But Kit was innocent; and knowing this, and feeling that his best friends deemed him guilty that Mr and Mrs Garland would look upon him as a monster of ingratitude that Barbara would associate him with all that was bad and criminal that the pony would consider himself forsaken and that even his own mother might perhaps yield to the strong appearances against him, and believe him to be the wretch he seemed knowing and feeling all this, he experienced, at first, an agony of mind which no words can describe, and walked up and down the little cell in which he was locked up for the night, almost beside himself with grief.
-- He had liberty to walk in a small paved yard at a certain hour, and learnt from the turnkey, who came to unlock his cell and show him where to wash, that there was a regular time for visiting, every day, and that if any of his friends came to see him, he would be fetched down to the grate.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the cell a woman's voice burst into laughter.
-- There she was thoroughly searched, and as nothing was found upon her (the box of cigarettes was hidden in the lunch roll), she was admitted into the same cell from which she had emerged in the morning.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habi-tation.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Having thus, in obedience to your majesty's commands, diligently searched all his pockets, we observed a girdle about his waist made of the hide of some prodigious animal, from which, on the left side, hung a sword of the length of five men; and on the right, a bag or pouch divided into two cells, each cell capable of holding three of your majesty's 34 Gulliver's Travelssubjects.
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
-- The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
-- Here, in dry clothes and scented linen, with sleeked hair, a great ring on each forefinger and a massive show of watch-chain, Mr Blandois waiting for his dinner, lolling on a window-seat with his knees drawn up, looked (for all the difference in the setting of the jewel) fearfully and wonderfully like a certain Monsieur Rigaud who had once so waited for his breakfast, lying on the stone ledge of the iron grating of a cell in a villainous dungeon at Marseilles.
-- Made giddy by the turbulent irruption of this multitude of staring faces into her cell of years, by the confusing sensation of being in the air, and the yet more confusing sensation of being afoot, by the unexpected changes in half-remembered objects, and the want of likeness between the controllable pictures her imagination had often drawn of the life from which she was secluded and the overwhelming rush of the reality, she held her way as if she were environed by distracting thoughts, rather than by external humanity and observation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light.
-- In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides this, I kept myself, as I said, more retired than ever, and seldom went from my cell except upon my constant employment, to milk my she-goats, and manage my little flock in the wood, which, as it was quite on the other part of the island, was out of danger; for certain, it is that these savage people, who sometimes haunted this island, never came with any thoughts of finding anything here, and consequently never wandered off from the coast, and I doubt not but they might have been several times on shore after my apprehensions of them had made me cau-tious, as well as before.
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