bull是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 公牛, 雄性的鲸、 象等大动物，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Agamemnon, king of men, sacrificed a fat five-year-old bull to the mighty son of Saturn, and invited the princes and elders of his host.
-- They stood round the bull with the barley-meal in their hands, and Agamemnon prayed, saying, 'Jove, most glorious, supreme, that dwell-est in heaven, and ridest upon the storm-cloud, grant that the sun may not go down, nor the night fall, till the palace of Priam is laid low, and its gates are consumed with fire.
-- As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes.
-- When they reached the quarters of the son of Atreus, Agamemnon sacrificed for them a five-year-old bull in hon-our of Jove the son of Saturn.
-- Thence in full panoply and equipment we came towards noon to the sacred waters of the Alpheus, and there we offered vic-tims to almighty Jove, with a bull to Alpheus, another to Neptune, and a herd-heifer to Minerva.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were fine wrinkles beside his eyes, he rolled Bull Durham cigarettes constantly, and his opinion of man's honor and woman's virtue was but low.
-- Well, come back some day and we'll take a shot at the ducks, and have a good laugh about that bull you made over the smallpox.
-- He was exposed as the founder of the first Rotary Club in Iowa; superintendent of the Jonathan Edwards Congregational Sunday School of Nautilus; president of the Moccasin Ski and Hiking Club, of the West Side Bowling Club, and the 1912 Bull Moose and Roosevelt Club; organizer and cheerleader of a Joint Picnic of the Woodmen, Moose, Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Turnverein, Knights of Columbus, B'nai Brith, and the Y.M.C.A.
-- Sondelius's wild flaxen hair was almost gray, but he had the same bull shoulders, the same wide brow, and the same tornado of plans to make the world aseptic, without neglecting to enjoy a few of the septic things before they should pass away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I could associate the idea of a bull or a bear with any one so mildas Mr. Mell, I should think of him, in connection with thatafternoon when the uproar was at its height, as of one of thoseanimals, baited by a thousand dogs.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slowrendition of "Lorena" too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of theirwares.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
-- said Mr. Jaggers, turning to the man, who was pulling a lock of hair in the middle of his forehead, like the Bull in Cock Robin pulling at the bell-rope; "your man comes on this afternoon.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the par-ish.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The said company being now relieved from further attendance, and the chief Barnacles being rather hurried (for they had it in hand just then to send a mail or two which was in danger of going straight to its destination, beating about the seas like the Flying Dutchman, and to arrange with complexity for the stoppage of a good deal of important business otherwise in peril of being done), went their several ways; with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.
-- Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been stowed away on board ship?
-- In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has a touch of the grand in it.
-- Hem, hem, hem; here they are here they go all alive: Aries, or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull and Jimimi!here's Gemini himself, or the Twins.
-- Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme!did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin looked so very much in earnest, that Charley Bates, who deemed it prudent in all cases to be on the safe side, and who conceived it by no means improbable that it might be his turn to be throttled second, dropped upon his knees, and raised a loud, well-sustained, and continuous roar-- something between a mad bull and a speaking trumpet.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Up-stream boats didn't generly come close to us; they go out and follow the bars and hunt for easy water under the reefs; but nights like this they bull right up the channel against the whole river.
-- The duke had to learn him over and over again how to say every speech; and he made him sigh, and put his hand on his heart, and after a while he said he done it pretty well; 'only,' he says, 'you mustn't bellow out ROMEO!that way, like a bull you must say it soft and sick and languishy, so R-o-o-meo!that is the idea; for Juliet's a dear sweet mere child of a girl, you know, and she doesn't bray like a jackass.'
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