ox是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 牛， 公牛，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：
-- They say that the llama is substitute for the ox and the sheep, and I should like to know if it is, in an alimentary respect."
-- His boots were pieces of ox hide, fastened round the ankles by straps, across.
-- Thalcave went first to beat the bushes and frighten away the cholinas, a most dangerous species of viper, the bite of which kills an ox in less than an hour.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My cousins and clansmen came about me, and pressed me sorely to remain; many a sheep and many an ox did they slaughter, and many a fat hog did they set down to roast before the fire; many a jar, too, did they broach of my father's wine.
-- Before him he held his shield of hammered bronze, that the smith had beaten so fair and round, and had lined with ox hides which he had made fast with rivets of gold all round the shield; this he held in front of him, and brandishing his two spears came on like some lion of the wilderness, who has been long famished for want of meat and will dare break even into a well-fenced homestead to try and get at the sheep.
-- As when some stur-dy youth, axe in hand, deals his blow behind the horns of an ox and severs the tendons at the back of its neck so that it springs forward and then drops, even so did Aretus give one bound and then fall on his back the spear quivering in his body till it made an end of him.
-- But Ajax took the ox and stood with his hand on one of its horns, spitting the dung out of his mouth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dream-ing, perhaps, of banquets, as the starved usually do, and of ease and rest, as the driven slave and the yoked ox may, its lean inhabitants slept soundly, and were fed and freed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like an ox with head bent, submissively he awaited the blow which he felt was lifted over him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fanny Elsing, pale and hollow eyed since Gettysburg, wastrying to keep her mind from the torturing picture which had worn a groove in her tired mind these past several months Lieutenant Dallas McLure dying in a jolting ox cart in the rain on the long, terrible retreat into Maryland.
-- Then farm wagons, ox carts and even private carriagescommandeered by the medical corps.
-- She found Carey Ashburn on the bottom layer of wounded in an ox cart; barely alive from a bullet wound in hishead.
-- Five Points was crowded with people who rushed here and there with unseeing eyes, jammedwith wagons, ambulances, ox carts, carriages loaded with wounded.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is the great prize ox of the sea, too fat to be delicately good.
-- But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he had been put on his trial by oxen, he certainly would have been; and he certainly deserved it if any murderer does.
-- Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of? what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?
-- Sell it for an ox whip when we get home; what else?"
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