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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if you say but this word, I will take up my cross again with joy, and return once more to my battle with poverty.
-- Suddenly tears start to our eyes, our hands shake; we weep, we embrace the battle is one of self-sacrifice now!The prince shouts, 'She is yours;' I cry, 'She is yours ' in a word, in a word You've come to live with us, hey?'
-- The miscreants have written a tissue of calumny in their article, and these are the men who seek for truth, and do battle for the right!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.'
-- He went not to the honourable assembly, and sallied not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the war-cry.
-- Whet well your spears; see well to the ordering of your shields; give good feeds to your horses, and look your chariots carefully over, that we may do battle the livelong day; for we shall have no rest, not for a moment, till night falls to part us.
-- With this she darted furiously everywhere among the hosts of the Achae-ans, urging them forward, and putting courage into the heart of each, so that he might fight and do battle without ceasing.
-- If you would have me do battle with Menelaus, bid the Trojans and Achaeans take their seats, while he and I fight in their midst for Helen and all her wealth.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpet-ed, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their com-rades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
-- 'But here is Kaa to whom we owe the battle and thou owest thy life.
-- Wheat he gave to rich folk, millet to the poor, Broken scraps for holy men that beg from door to door; Battle to the tiger, carrion to the kite, And rags and bones to wicked wolves without the wall at night.
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 reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day.
-- He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting' It would seem that the stock of the horse of Israel had descended to our own time; would it not, friend?'
-- 'It may be a minute, or it may be an hour, afore the wily sarpents steal upon us, and it is quite in natur' for them to be lying within hearing at this very moment,' said Hawkeye; 'but come they will, and in such a fashion as will leave us nothing to hope!Chingachgook' he spoke in Delaware 'my brother, we have fought our last battle together, and the Maquas will triumph in the death of the sage man of the Mohicans, and of the pale face, whose eyes can make night as day, and level the clouds to the mists of the springs!'
-- He now spoke of the long and painful route by which they had left those spacious grounds and happy villages, to come and battle against the enemies of their Ca-nadian fathers.
-- The battle was now entirely terminated with the excep-tion of the protracted struggle between 'Le Renard Subtil' and 'Le Gros Serpent.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolu-tionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
-- Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being be-lated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
-- It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window.
-- And there was an old gentleman who shall be nameless, being too rich a myn-heer to be lightly mentioned, who, in the battle of White Plains, being an excellent master of defence, parried a mus-ket-ball with a small-sword, insomuch that he absolutely felt it whiz round the blade, and glance off at the hilt; in proof of which he was ready at any time to show the sword, with the hilt a little bent.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an instant of complete silence, but when Tough Bill threw himself on Strickland the lust of battle seized them all, and in a moment there was a confused scrimmage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself, fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'On that occasion, Kit,' said Mr Brass, 'on that occasion that I have just alluded to, I had a hard battle with Mr Quilp (for Mr Quilp is a very hard man) to obtain them the indulgence they had.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!"
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