stump是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 树桩， 残茬, 参与部分, 残肢 v. 僵硬地走, 使为难，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is a stump of a dead tree oak or pine as it may be some six feet above the ground, and not yet rotted away by rain; it stands at the fork of the road; it has two white stones set one on each side, and there is a clear course all round it.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Generations of monkeys had been scared into good be-havior by the stories their elders told them of Kaa, the night thief, who could slip along the branches as quietly as moss grows, and steal away the strongest monkey that ever lived; of old Kaa, who could make himself look so like a dead branch or a rotten stump that the wisest were deceived, till the branch caught them.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now when he was not hindering her, she knew what to do, and without looking at what was under her feet, and to her vexation stumbling over a high stump into the water, but righting herself with her strong, supple legs, she began making the circle which was to make all clear to her.
-- He stumbled over the stump as he came, and moved, as she thought, extraordinarily slowly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 82CHAPTER VII Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceI HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the woodenleg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, fromwhich I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr.Creakle and the boys.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Afterwards, I want you and Maryann to bring up that little stump bedstead in the small room, and the bed belonging to it, and a table, and some other things.... What shall I do to pass the heavy time away?"
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Flushed and breathing hard, she sat down on a stump to wait for her father.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Rope-walk,--whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes which had grown old and lost most of their teeth.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I can find a cure for this,' thought he; 'now I will milk my cow and quench my thirst': so he tied her to the stump of a tree, and held his leathern cap to milk into; but not a drop was to be had.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle and I looked at one another with wild and haggard eyes; we clung convulsively to the stump of the mast, which, at the moment when the catastrophe took place, had snapped short off.
-- The ladders and ropes were reduced to a small piece of rope fastened to the stump of the mast.
-- Seated gloomily on the raft, clasping the stump of the mast mechanically, I thought of all I had read as to sufferings from starvation.
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：
-- she said, seating herself in her blue knitted dress, on a stump by the path.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in his bleeding stump that brought that about, as any one might see.
-- cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.
-- Any time these ten years, they tell me, has that man held up that picture, and exhibited that stump to an incredulous world.
-- His three whales are as good whales as were ever published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a stump as any you will find in the western clearings.
-- As an overladen Indiaman bearing down the Hindostan coast with a deck load of frightened horses, careens, buries, rolls, and wallows on her way; so did this old whale heave his aged bulk, and now and then partly turning over on his cumbrous rib-ends, expose the cause of his devious wake in the unnatural stump of his starboard fin.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How it came thither I knew not, nor could I in the least imag-ine; but after innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.
-- When they had set themselves over, I observed that the boat being gone a good way into the creek, and, as it were, in a harbour within the land, they took one of the three men out of her, to go along with them, and left only two in the boat, hav-ing fastened her to the stump of a little tree on the shore.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I see I was up a stump again, so I played another chicken bone and got an-other think.
-- A body might stump his toe, and take pison, and fall down the well, and break his neck, and bust his brains out, and some- body come along and ask what killed him, and some numskull up and say, 'Why, he stumped his TOE.'
-- Well, I see I was up a stump and up it good.
-- In about half an hour Aunt Sally comes gliding in, and there I was, up a stump again!She motioned me to be still, and set down by me, and begun to whisper, and said we could all be joyful now, because all the symp-toms was first-rate, and he'd been sleeping like that for ever so long, and looking better and peace- fuller all the time, and ten to one he'd wake up in his right mind.
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