branch是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (树) 条， 分支； 分店； (学科) 分科， 部门； 支流，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：
-- It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in sin-gular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 231 'His goods,' said Mr. Cruncher, after turning it over in his mind, 'is a branch of Scientific goods.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, 'they are much better off than I!To fly must be a heavenly art; and happy do I prize that creature in which it is innate.
-- On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The snipe had ceased flying; but Levin resolved to stay a little longer, till Venus, which he saw below a branch if birch, should be above it, and the stars of the Great Bear should be perfectly plain.
-- he cried, breaking off to scold her for too agile a movement in stepping over a branch that lay in the path.
-- Chapter 7 Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly out from under the muslin canopy of the crib, and a bumblebee struggling on the window-frame, and sat down waving a faded branch of birch over the mother and the baby.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
-- At Callyan they reached the junction of the branch line which descends towards south-eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick and verdant forests.
-- The train reached Ogden at two o'clock, where it rested for six hours, Mr. Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road; and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker-board, "with the sombre sadness of right-angles," as Victor Hugo expresses it.
-- A branch of the "grand trunk" led off southward to Denver, the capital of Colorado.
-- They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near Sedgwick, and touched at Julesburg, on the southern branch of the Platte River.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May your circulation proceed unchecked and particularly the dorsal carpal branch of the ulnar artery, in which connection, comrade, Prof. Dr. Col. Egbert Arrowsmith and I would fain trifle with another bottle of that renowned strawberry pop."
-- You realized before he had talked to you for ten minutes that here was one of the few leaders of mankind who could discourse on any branch of knowledge, yet could control practical affairs and drive stumbling mankind on to sane and reasonable ideals.
-- You think that because you've started in on one tiny branch of mental activity, there's nothing else in the world.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Pulcheria Alexandrovna's anxiously and timidly in-quiring as to 'some suspicion of insanity,' he replied with 294 Crime and Punishmenta composed and candid smile that his words had been ex-aggerated; that certainly the patient had some fixed idea, something approaching a monomania he, Zossimov, was now particularly studying this interesting branch of medi-cine but that it must be recollected that until to-day the patient had been in delirium and 芒聙娄 and that no doubt the presence of his family would have a favourable effect on his recovery and distract his mind, 'if only all fresh shocks can be avoided,' he added significantly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the second branch of the question, Iwill only remark, that unless I ran through that part of myinheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet.
-- Murdstone and Grinby's trade was among a good many kinds ofpeople, but an important branch of it was the supply of wines andspirits to certain packetships.
-- Apart from which,' said Mrs.Micawber, 'I will not disguise from you, my dear MasterCopperfield, that when that branch of my family which is settled inPlymouth became aware that Mr. Micawber was accompanied bymyself, and by little Wilkins and his sister, and by the twins, theydid not receive him with the ardour which he might have expected,be- ing so newly released from captivity.
-- To borrow of that branch of my familythe money to return to London, and to return at any sacrifice.'
-- 'What I particularly request Mr. Micawber to be careful of, is,' saidMrs. Micawber, 'that he does not, my dear Mr. Copperfield, inapplying himself to this subordinate branch of the law, place it outof his power to rise, ultimately, to the top of the tree.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family and that the Eltons were nobody.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are the younger branch of the family, and the younger branch is all the poorer because my great-uncle, the Vice-Admiral, lost all that he had in the King's service.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's appre-hensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
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