oak是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 橡树， 橡木a. 橡木的，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Holding his head bent down before him, and struggling with the wind that strove to tear the wraps away from him, Levin was moving up to the copse and had just caught sight of something white behind the oak tree, when there was a sudden flash, the whole earth seemed on fire, and the vault of heaven seemed crashing overhead.
-- Levin hardly had time to think when, moving more and more rapidly, the oak tree vanished behind the other trees, and he heard the crash of the great tree falling upon the others.
-- And though he thought at once how senseless was his prayer that they should not have been killed by the oak which had fallen now, he repeated it, knowing that he could do nothing better than utter this senseless prayer.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This year it was held in the large hall of the University Y.M.C.A., a moral apartment with red wall paper, portraits of whiskered alumni who had gone out to be missionaries, and long thin pine boxes intended to resemble exposed oak beams.
-- and meekly he waited, in the row of oak chairs beneath the Dawson Hunziker pharmaceutical calendar.
-- He yearned over the picture of a centrifuge while Leora was admiring the "stunning seven-piece Reception Room fumed oak set, upholstered in genuine Barcelona Longware Leatherette, will give your office the class and distinction of any high-grade New York specialist's."
-- Against the oak paneling of the walls were portraits of the pontiffs of science, in crimson robes, with a vast mural by Maxfield Parrish, and above all was an electrolier of a hundred globes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with abalustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost aseasily; and into a shady old drawingroom, lighted by some three orfour of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street:which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of thesame trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in theceiling.
-- A fairhand was stretched forth to me from the window; and the face Ihad never seen without a feeling of serenity and happiness, fromthe moment when it first turned back on the old oak staircase withthe great broad balustrade, and when I associated its softenedbeauty with the stained-glass window in the church, was smilingon me.
-- Every scratch in thescheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went oncutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that inthree or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment onone of our crack speakers in the Commons.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Description of Farmer Oak An IncidentWhen Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
-- Mr. Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in other words, it was a watch as to shape and intention, and a small clock as to size.
-- The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours' windows, till he could discern the hour marked by the green-faced timekeepers within.
-- But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a certain December morning sunny and exceedingly mild might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than these.
-- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became awareof Scarlett O'Hara.
-- The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrappedabout Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides.
-- Scarlett sat on a high rosewood ottoman, under the shade of a huge oak in the rear of the house, her flounces andruffles billowing about her and two inches of green morocco slippers all that a lady could show and still remain alady peeping from beneath them.
-- Frank Kennedy fussed about like a hen withone chick, running back and forth from the shade of the oak to the tables to fetch dainties to tempt Scarlett, as if therewere not a dozen servants there for that purpose.
-- She nodded and he carefully handed her down the front steps and led her across the grass to the iron benchbeneath the largest oak in the front yard.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took the little tailor to a mighty oak tree which 100 Grimms' Fairy Taleslay there felled on the ground, and said: 'If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I returned home, and consulting with the sorrel nag, we went into a copse at some distance, where I with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some 360 Gulliver's Travelslarger pieces.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then there appeared confounded together and intermixed, the trees of such varied lands, specimens of the vegetation of every part of the globe; there was the oak near the palm tree, the Australian eucalyptus, an interesting class of the order Myrtaceae--leaning against the tall Norwegian pine, the poplar of the north, mixing its branches with those of the New Zealand kauris.
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