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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few wooden benches fastened against the gaily-colored walls, about ten stools, two oak chests on tin mugs, a large long table where twenty guests could sit comfortably, composed the furniture, which looked in perfect keeping with the solid house and robust inmates.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.
-- Then we gazed round us at the high, thin window of old stained glass, the oak panelling, the stags' heads, the coats-of-arms upon the walls, all dim and sombre in the subdued light of the central lamp.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His comrades then bore Sarpedon away and laid him beneath Jove's spreading oak tree.
-- Now when Hector reached the Scaean gates and the oak tree, the wives and daughters of the Trojans came running towards him to ask after their sons, brothers, kinsmen, and husbands: he told them to set about praying to the gods, and many were made sorrowful as they heard him.
-- The pair met by the oak tree, and King Apollo son of Jove was first to speak.
-- But Minerva and Apollo, in the likeness of vultures, perched on father Jove's high oak tree, proud of their men; and the ranks sat close ranged to-gether, bristling with shield and helmet and spear.
-- So long as I fought the Achaeans Hector suffered not the battle range far from the city walls; he would come to the Scaean gates and to the oak tree, but no further.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A ragged oak grew on the right bank of the river, nearly opposite to their position, which, seeking the freedom of the open space, had inclined so far forward that its upper branches overhung that arm of the stream which flowed nearest to its own shore.
-- The rifles flashed, the leaves and bark of the oak flewinto the air, and were scattered by the wind, but the Indian answered their assault by a taunting laugh, sending down upon them another bullet in return, that struck the cap of Hawkeye from his head.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- She turned down it adventurously, between the thick young firs, which gave way soon to the old oak wood.
-- Sir Geoffery himself had liked old carved oak chests, vestry chests.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The tent is for your especial benefit and that oak is your drawing room, this is the messroom and the third is the camp kitchen.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
-- In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.
-- She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door was thick, solid oak slabs.
-- Well, next they got out a couple of long swords that the duke made out of oak laths, and begun to practice the sword fight the duke called himself Richard III.
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.
-- Throwing the rope over the high limb of a giant oak tree, they pulled till the poor Marionette hung far up in space.
-- "Do you see that Marionette hanging from the limb of that giant oak tree?"
-- On reaching the oak tree, you will find a poor, half-dead Marionette stretched out on the grass.
-- When he reached the giant oak tree he stopped, for he thought he heard a rustle in the brush.
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