story是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 故事， 传说， 小说； (=storey) 楼层，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
-- As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communi-cated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will, with your leave, relate to you, miss, the story of one of our customers.'
-- 'So far, miss (as you have remarked), this is the story of your regretted father.
-- There was yet an upper staircase, of a steeper inclination and of contracted dimensions, to be ascended, before the garret story was reached.
-- The story of his pure soul was exactly what Mr. Attorney-General had described it to be perhaps, if it had a fault, a little too exactly.
-- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always as on the trial evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille 110 A tale of two citiesthrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is really pitiable, particularly when one gets into the hands of a little blackguard, perfect in all sorts of cruelty to animals: all I should like to know is, how the story will end.'
-- After all, that was a very unpleas-ant, disagreeable dream that haunted me!The whole story is nothing but silly, stupid nonsense!'
-- thought the Fir Tree, and believed it all, because the man who told the story was so good-looking.
-- 'I will enjoy to the full all my splendor!To-morrow I shall hear again the story of Humpy-Dumpy, and perhaps that of Ivedy-Avedy too.'
-- And the Tree beheld all the beauty of the flowers, and the freshness in the garden; he beheld himself, and wished he had remained in his dark corner in the loft; he thought of his first youth in the wood, of the merry Christmas-eve, and of the little Mice who had listened with so much plea-sure to the story of Humpy-Dumpy.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You didn't think I had a love story too," she said, and there was a faint gleam in her handsome face of that fire which Kitty felt must once have glowed all over her.
-- But in every gesture of Madame Stahl, in every word, in every heavenly--as Kitty called it--look, and above all in the whole story of her life, which she heard from Varenka, Kitty recognized that something "that was important," of which, till then, she had known nothing.
-- "Do you know, you remind me of the story of the advice given to the sick man--You should try purgative medicine.
-- But there was a gleam of alarm in Sviazhsky's eyes, and he said smiling: "No; that screaming story is positively capital!Did you really hear it yourself?"
-- "If the story of such a girl were thoroughly sifted, you would find she had abandoned a family-- her own or a sister's, where she might have found a woman's duties," Darya Alexandrovna broke in unexpectedly in a tone of exasperation, probably suspecting what sort of girl Stepan Arkadyevitch was thinking of.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Passepartout reached the second story he recognised at once the room which he was to inhabit, and he was well satisfied with it.
-- But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to exhaust all other means of aid.
-- The Elder's story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience grew gradually less, until it was reduced to twenty passengers.
-- But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing heroic in her story but from her placid way of telling it he had an impression of gay courage.
-- Clif was sitting on the small of his back, shoeless feet upon the study table, reading a Sherlock Holmes story which rested on the powerful volume of Osler's Medicine which he considered himself to be reading.
-- He landed from a boat at what had been the second story of a tenement and delivered a baby on the top floor; he bound up heads and arms for a line of men; but what gave him glory was the perfectly foolhardy feat of swimming the flood to save five children marooned and terrified on a bobbing church pew.
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