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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Already Wilson and Mulrady had rushed to his rescue when his long body appeared tumbling down from branch to branch.
-- Glenarvan ventured to creep out of the sheltering foliage, and made his way to the extremity of the horizontal branch to take a look round.
-- They were all silent, troubled, and terrified, as they watched branch after branch shrivel, and crack, and writhe in the flame like living serpents, and then drop into the swollen torrent, still red and gleaming, as it was borne swiftly along on the rapid current.
-- But Mulrady, seizing hold of a branch that was half-burned off, struck the monster such a tremendous blow, that it fell back into the torrent and disappeared, lashing the water with its formidable tail.
-- But when Lady Helena opened her eyes she discovered a fresh branch of mimosa leaves lying across her, and Paganel found a book in his vest pocket, which turned out to be "Richardson's Geography."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is one little matter some advice I am going to ask him for; but my principal object is simply to introduce myself, because I am Prince Muishkin, and Madame Epanchin is the last of her branch of the house, and besides herself and me there are no other Muishkins left.'
-- I told the poor people not to put much hope in me, because I was but a poor schoolboy myself (I am not really, but I humiliated myself as much as possible in order to make them less hope-ful) but that I would go at once to the Vassili Ostroff and see my friend; and that as I knew for certain that his uncle adored him, and was absolutely devoted to him as the last hope and branch of the family, perhaps the old man might do something to oblige his nephew.
-- The general had turned up in the bosom of his family two or three days before, but not, as usual, with the olive branch of peace in his hand, not in the garb of penitence in which he was usually clad on such occasions but, on the contrary, in an uncommonly bad temper.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They do not mingle with the silver eddies of the Peneus, but flow on the top of them like oil; for the Titaresius is a branch of dread Orcus and of the river Styx.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I turned as noiselessly as possible, and becoming ev-ery now and then rigid with the fear of being discovered, as a branch cracked or a leaf rustled, I pushed back into the bushes.
-- 'And yet this extraordinary branch of knowledge has never been sought as an end, and systematically, by mod-ern investigators until I took it up!Some of such things have been hit upon in the last resort of surgery; most of the kindred evidence that will recur to your mind has been demonstrated as it were by accident, by tyrants, by crim-inals, by the breeders of horses and dogs, by all kinds of untrained clumsy-handed men working for their own im-mediate ends.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, 'Come along, Little Brother,' and at first Mowgli would cling like the sloth, but afterward he would fling himself through the branches almost as boldly as the gray ape.
-- 'Good!Now, I have seen men thrust a dry branch into that stuff, and presently the Red Flower blossomed at the end of it.
-- He found a branch that satisfied him, and in the evening when Tabaqui came to the cave and told him rudely enough that he was wanted at the Council Rock, he laughed till Tabaqui ran away.
-- Mowgli thrust his dead branch into the fire till the twigs lit and crackled, and whirled it above his head among the cowering wolves.
-- Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you! when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh!happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! But who will remain to enjoy you?"
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Carrie received this Tuesday morning when she called at the West Side branch of the post-office, and answered at once.
-- "I say, Drouet," said Mr. Harry Quincel, an individual who was very prominent in this local branch of the Elks, "you're the man that can help us out."
-- She took the car and arrived at Ogden Place in three-quarters of an hour, but decided to ride on to the West Side branch of the Post-office, where she was accustomed to receive Hurstwood's letters.
-- I've got charge of a branch here."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 15 The Assassins chase Pinocchio, catch him, and hang him to the branch of a giant oak tree.
-- He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his feathers.
-- I ran and they ran after me, always after me, till they hanged me to the branch of a giant oak tree.
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