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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The packet sealed with red wax seemed to attract everyone, as though it were a mag-net.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither would the brave Lycians stand firm; they were dismayed when they saw their king lying struck to the heart amid a heap of corpses for when the son of Saturn made the fight wax hot many had fallen above him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the middle of the room, opposite the door, was a dark iron, with a wax candle stuck on it, and a dusty bouquet of immortelles hanging under it.
-- Among them he found a registered letter in a beautiful, large envelope, with a large seal of red wax on it.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, reprobate!you are a castaway be off, or I'll hurt you seriously!I'll have you all modelled in wax and clay!and the first who passes the limits I fix shall I'll not say what he shall be done to but, you'll see!Go, I'm looking at you!
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was one where a young lady was at a window looking up at the moon, and tears running down her cheeks; and she had an open letter in one hand with black sealing wax showing on one edge of it, and she was mashing a locket with a chain to it against her mouth, and under- neath the picture it said 'And Art Thou Gone Yes Thou Art Gone Alas.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To my own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat, preserved foods, crackers, bread, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar, wax candles, and boxes of matches.
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