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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chemistry is that branch of natural phi-losophy in which the greatest improvements have been and 47may be made; it is on that account that I have made it my peculiar study; but at the same time, I have not neglected the other branches of science.
-- If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.'
-- I lighted the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is fair to remark that there was no prohibition against any pupil's entertaining himself with a slate or even with the ink (when there was any), but that it was not easy to pursue that branch of study in the winter season, on account of the little general shop in which the classes were holden--and which was also Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamber--being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.
-- Miss Skiffins was of a wooden appearance, and was, like her escort, in the post-office branch of the service.
-- "In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a--"I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, "A clerk."
-- For the beam across the parlor ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the soldier broke a branch from each; and every time there was a loud noise, which made the youngest sister tremble with fear; but the eldest still said, it was only the princes, who were crying for joy.
-- It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards.
-- But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel-tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing: 'Back again!back again!look to the shoe!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore those who expect any explanation whatever upon that branch of the subject, will be disappointed particularly Tom Gradgrind, and he can't know it too soon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his hand was a branch of a tree, which served as a crook for this antediluvian shepherd.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he had intermarried with a branch of the Stiltstalkings, who were also better endowed in a sanguineous point of view than with real or personal property, and of this marriage there had been issue, Barnacle junior and three young ladies.
-- If a gentlemanly residence coming strictly within this narrow margin had not been essential to the blood of the Barnacles, this particular branch would have had a pretty wide selection among, let us say, ten thousand houses, offering fifty times the accommodation for a third of the money.
-- Such formalities as are required to be observed in so doing, may be known on application to the proper branch of that Department.'
-- Though his duties as his proprietor's grubber were in no wise lessened; and though that service bore no greater resemblance to a bed of roses than was to be discovered in its many thorns; some new branch of industry made a constant demand upon him.
-- But he had spoken to her alone, and had said that people ha people in an exalted position, my dear, must scrupulously exact respect from their dependents; and that for her, his daughter, Miss Amy Dorrit, of the sole remaining branch of the Dorrits of Dorsetshire, to be known to hum to occupy herself in fulfilling the functions of ha hum a valet, would be incompatible with that respect.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No branch of Zoology is so much involved as that which is entitled Cetology," says Captain Scoresby, A.D. 1820.
-- Apply this spinal branch of phrenology to the Sperm Whale.
-- There are two royal fish so styled by the English law writers the whale and the sturgeon; both royal property under certain limitations, and nominally supplying the tenth branch of the crown's ordinary revenue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three boys sallied out; the Dodger with his coat-sleeves tucked up, and his hat cocked, as usual; Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets; and Oliver between them, wondering where they were going, and what branch of manufacture he would be instructed in, first.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shock-ing rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was cutting down some wood here, I perceived that, behind a very thick branch of low brushwood or underwood, there was a kind of hollow place: I was curi-ous to look in it; and getting with difficulty into the mouth of it, I found it was pretty large, that is to say, sufficient for me to stand upright in it, and perhaps another with me: but I must confess to you that I made more haste out than I did in, when looking farther into the place, and which was per-fectly dark, I saw two broad shining eyes of some creature, whether devil or man I knew not, which twinkled like two stars; the dim light from the cave's mouth shining directly in, and making the reflection.
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