spear是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 矛， 枪，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：
-- Try, that others may see; if you do, my spear shall be reddened with your blood.'
-- He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans.
-- When Hector heard this he was glad, and went about among the Trojan ranks holding his spear by the middle to keep them back, and they all sat down at his bidding: but the Achaeans still aimed at him with stones and arrows, till Agamemnon shouted to them saying, 'Hold, Argives, shoot not, sons of the Achaeans; Hector desires to speak.'
-- On his comely head he set his helmet, well-wrought, with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it, and he grasped a redoubtable spear that suited his hands.
-- Alexandrus aimed first, and struck the round shield of the son of Atreus, but the spear did not pierce it, for the shield turned its point.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Respectin' a future spear o' life, miss,' returned Mr. Cruncher, 'I hope so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neb, his iron-tipped spear in his hand, wished to go to Top's help, and attack the dangerous animal in its own element.
-- Take your spear and do as I do."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, don't say such things as them, in a spear which is dewoted to something pleasanter,' urged Short.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- After a stiff pull, their harpooneer got fast, and, spear in hand, Radney sprang to the bow.
-- Steel and wood included, the entire spear is some ten or twelve feet in length; the staff is much slighter than that of the harpoon, and also of a lighter material pine.
-- Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.
-- Though so short a period ago not a good lifetime the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was no sooner landed upon the earth, but he moved forward towards me, with a long spear or weapon in his hand, to kill me; and when he came to a rising ground, at some distance, he spoke to me - or I heard a voice so terrible that it is impossible to express the terror of it.
-- All that I can say I understood was this: 'Seeing all these things have not brought thee to repentance, now thou shalt die;' at which words, I thought he lifted up the spear that was in his hand to kill me.
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