wax是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 蜡， 蜂蜡v. 打蜡，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The church became so still that the drops of wax could be heard falling from the candles.
-- The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped slowly from them he turned, facing the bridal pair.
-- A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it.
-- This hotel had already reached that stage, and the soldier in a filthy uniform smoking in the entry, supposed to stand for a hall-porter, and the cast-iron, slippery, dark, and disagreeable staircase, and the free and easy waiter in a filthy frock coat, and the common dining room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers adorning the table, and filth, dust, and disorder everywhere, and at the same time the sort of modern up-to-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel, aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them.
-- But he had only to go and stay a little while in Petersburg, in the circle there in which he moved, where people lived--really lived-- instead of vegetating as in Moscow, and all such ideas vanished and melted away at once, like wax before the fire.
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：
-- He is wax 芒聙娄 wax before the face of the Lord; even as wax melteth!芒聙娄 His eyes were dim when he heard my story.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she wasmortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my motherwas 'a wax doll.'
-- She had seen David Copperfield out of theworld, who was always running after wax dolls from his cradle.
-- Having laid in the materials for a bowl of punch, to becompounded by Mr. Micawber; having provided a bottle oflavender-water, two wax candles, a paper of mixed pins, and apincushion, to assist Mrs. Micawber in her toilette, at my dressing-table; having also caused the fire in my bed-room to be lighted forMrs. Micawber's convenience; and having laid the cloth with myown hands, I awaited the result with composure.
-- She had fallen back, already, on the society of the work-boxwith Saint Paul's upon the lid, the yard-measure in the cottage, andthe bit of wax candle: and there they all were, just as if they hadnever been disturbed.
-- 'He was crossing you and wheedling you, I saw;and you were soft wax in his hands, I saw.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba looked closely at the hot wax to discover the words.
-- But it had been brought about by misdirected ingenuity, and she valued it only as she valued an artificial flower or a wax fruit.
-- Such a great ornament as they'd be to him on a dull afternoon, when he's up in the pulpit lighted by the wax candles!But 'tis impossible, poor man.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has the glassy eyes and innocent air of a trafficker in flesh and blood, who will wax virtuously indignant to obtain a higher price for her services, but who is quite ready to betray a Georges or a Pichegru, if a Georges or a Pichegru were in hiding and still to be betrayed, or for any other expedient that may alleviate her lot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
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：
-- Clifford left them alone, and she learnt to do the same: she just went by without looking at them, and they stared as if she were a walking wax figure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These were, in effect, because the whole town, or he might say the whole country, was in the first madness of the late discovery, and the resentment against the victims would be very strong: those who had not been deluded being certain to wax exceedingly wroth with them for not having been as wise as they were: and those who had been deluded being certain to find excuses and reasons for themselves, of which they were equally certain to see that other sufferers were wholly devoid: not to mention the great probability of every individual sufferer persuading himself, to his violent indignation, that but for the example of all the other sufferers he never would have put himself in the way of suffering.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other gentlemen speculated with equal rashness in all sorts of frail trifles, and wandered helplessly about afterward, burdened with wax flowers, painted fans, filigree portfolios, and other useful and appropriate purchases.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, nothing!It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on.
-- All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the night, or the gloomy chambers of the day, fears and misgivings wax strong, but out in the sunlight there is, for a time, cessation even of the terror of death.
-- Hurstwood glowed with his own intensity, and the heat of his passion was already melting the wax of his companion's scruples.
-- As the drilling proceeded, he seemed to wax exceedingly wroth over trifles, and to increase his lung power in proportion.
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