battle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 战役， 战斗； 斗争v. 战斗， 斗争， 搏斗，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although they had but that moment left the school be-hind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am a Kjoger hen,'* said she, and then she related how many inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had taken place, and which, after all, was hardly worth talking about.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now this passion was even doing battle with his love.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mohalis, the suitable time for young men callers to depart is ten o'clock, but from eight till a quarter after eleven Martin did battle with Mrs. Fox; talked to her in two languages, an audible gossip and a mute but furious protest, while Madeline--she was present; she sat about and looked pretty.
-- Battle o' life.
-- Every meeting of the Commissioners was a battle now, and it was uncertain whether Martin would be ruined or throned.
-- Martin had thought of himself, freed from tinkering over cut fingers and ear-aches, as spending ecstatic days in the laboratory, emerging only to battle with factory-owners who defied sanitation.
-- It was set to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but as the twins' voices were energetic and extraordinarily shrill, it had an effect all its own: Oh, are you out for happiness or are you out for pelf?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the battle was too unequal: the landlady waved her away like a feather.
-- I had to endure all the agony of that battle of ideas, Sonia, and I longed to throw it off: I wanted to murder without casuistry, to murder for my own sake, for myself alone!I didn't want to lie about it even to myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So we all did: Traddles evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr. Micawber and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world.
-- 722'"Now's the day, and now's the hour, See the front of battle lower,See approach proud EDWARD'S powerChains and slavery!"
-- As aman upon a field of battle will receive a mortal hurt, and scarcelyknow that he is struck, so I, when I was left alone with myundisciplined heart, had no conception of the wound with which ithad to strive.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tall came into the inclosure, and leapt off, his face tragic as Morton's after the battle of Shrewsbury.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and theirneighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went offin the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and hishated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.
-- She entered puffing, with theexpression of one who expects battle and welcomes it.
-- Everyone knew that one battle would end the war andevery young man hastened to enlist before the war should end hastened to marry his sweetheart before he rushed offto Virginia to strike a blow at the Yankees.
-- Almost the poising of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping thematerials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.
-- A Cause they loved as much asthey loved their men, a Cause they served with their hands and their hearts, a Cause they talked about, thought about,dreamed about a Cause to which they would sacrifice these men if need be, and bear their loss as proudly as the menbore their battle flags.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wound-ed in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going.
-- When day broke, and the battle was to begin, all the four-footed animals came running up with such a noise that the earth trembled.
-- So, to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter, it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat, that lay on the sea-shore hard by; that the father should push him off with his own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift, and left to the bad or good luck of wind and weather.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And because my first in-clination was to be entertained with scenes of pomp and magnificence, I desired to see Alexander the Great at the head of his army, just after the battle of Arbela: which, upon a motion of the governor's finger, immediately appeared in a large field, under the window where we stood.
-- For if,' said he, 'you throw among five Yahoos as much food as would be sufficient for fifty, they will, instead of eating peaceably, fall together by the ears, each single one impatient to have all to itself; and therefore a servant was usually employed to stand by while they were feeding abroad, and those kept at home were tied at a distance from each other: that if a cow died of age or accident, before a Houyhnhnm could secure it for his own Yahoos, those in the neighbourhood would come in herds to seize it, and then would ensue such a battle as I had de-scribed, with terrible wounds made by their claws on both sides, although they seldom were able to kill one another, for want of such convenient instruments of death as we had invented.
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