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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a low brick fireplace, full of fire, an old blue Turkish rug, the little oak table with the lamp and the white-and-blue cloth and the dessert, and Gudrun making coffee in an odd brass coffee-maker, and Winifred scalding a little milk in a tiny saucepan.
-- In a chair by the fire, the father sat asleep, his head tilted back against the side of the big oak chimney piece, his ruddy face seen foreshortened, the nostrils open, the mouth fallen a little.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was made of oak wood, very carefully closed and covered with a thick hide, which was secured by copper nails.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof.
-- The whole furniture consisted of a chair, a clothes press, and a large oak case, with squares cut out near the top resembling coach windows.
-- This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
-- The first creak of the oak startled him like an electric shock: the light leaped from his hold to a distance of some feet, and his agitation was so extreme, that he could hardly pick it up.
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：
-- The warrior in the oak had maintained a quick, though ineffectual fire, from the moment of his discovery.
-- I saw one of the birds fanning himself in the air, just beyond the dead oak an-other sign that we are approaching an encampment.'
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