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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her own private sitting-room was a story higher, at the window of which post of observation she was ready, every morning, to greet Mr. Bounderby, as he came across the road, with the sympathizing recognition appropriate to a Victim.
-- How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution.
-- What you know of the story of my marriage, he soon knew, just as well.'
-- 'And besides,' said the whelp bitterly, 'she tells her own story so precious well and so full that what business had I to take it out of her mouth!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From our log, therefore, I tell the story of our voyage on the Central Sea.
-- It is the old story again of the mountain of adamant.
-- And yet, three months before I could tell my terrible story of starvation, as I thought it.
-- There remained the chimney, which still went up to the top, and had once served to carry off the smoke from every story of the tower.
-- A public meeting of the Johanneum Institution was held, at which the Professor related the whole story of his adventures, omitting only the facts in connection with the compass.
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：
-- So she plodded home to Clifford, to join forces with him again, to make another story out of nothingness: and a story meant money.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was so tremulous and agitated, and he was so moved by compassion for her, and by deep interest in her story as it dawned upon him, that he could scarcely tear himself away.
-- 'That's the true reason,' said one of them, bringing a story he had been telling, to a close, 'that's the true reason why they said that the devil was let loose.'
-- The tobacco business round the corner of Horsemonger Lane was carried out in a rural establishment one story high, which had the benefit of the air from the yards of Horsemonger Lane jail, and the advantage of a retired walk under the wall of that pleasant establishment.
-- 'It was of no use trying reason then, with that vehement panting creature (Heaven knows what her mother's story must have been); so I quietly told her that she should not go at that late hour of night, and I gave her my hand and took her to her room, and locked the house doors.
-- Perhaps some momentary recollection of the story of the Princess may have been in her mind.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it's hard work and we forget, and don't do our best.'
-- She knew it very well, for it was that beautiful old story of the best life ever lived, and Jo felt that it was a true guidebook for any pilgrim going on a long journey.
-- (Here Jo looked up quickly, as if about to speak, but changed her mind, seeing that the story was not done yet.)
-- thought Jo, as she was marched away, while her eyes danced with fun as she imag-ined herself telling the story at home.
-- The DUSTPAN SOCIETY will meet on Wednesday next, and parade in the upper story of the Club House.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
-- "Can't sell his head? What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?"
-- And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I've no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution."
-- I remembered a story of a white man a whaleman too who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.
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