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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the lesser incidents of the story are employed to emphasise the distinctive features of each land.
-- As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
-- It was a touching, simple story she heard in reply, and one which increased her sympathy for the young girl.
-- "Is it the story he would not understand, or the storyteller?"
-- "No, McNabbs," replied the SAVANT, "I'm not; but if you like, I'll tell you a little Arabian story that comes into my mind, very APROPOS this minute."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light and read in a high, cracking voice the following curious, old-world narrative: 'Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth.
-- Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
-- And the man, as the story goes, was so crazed with fear that he could scarce speak, but at last he said that he had indeed seen the unhappy maiden, with the hounds upon her track.
-- I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
-- Mortimer, I think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well, my father learned the whole story at once, and Zaleshoff blabbed it all over the town besides.
-- said the general in some excitement, after listening to the story with engrossed attention.
-- The whole story smells of passion, and we all know what this class of gentry is capable of when infatuated.
-- On the particular morning on which our story has opened, the family had assembled in the dining-room, and were waiting the general's appearance, the latter having promised to come this day.
-- 'I should refuse to say a word if I were ordered to tell a story like that!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have an old story in my mind a very old one but you are all friends and I will tell it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He impressed a long story of joy and affection upon her, though there was but here and there a word.
-- "You shouldn't have ever told me such a story as that."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4 The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do.
-- In falling, he made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth story of a house.
-- "Just to give you an idea of his size, let me tell you that he is larger than a five story building and that he has a mouth so big and so deep, that a whole train and engine could easily get into it."
-- The old fellow, curious to know the true story of the Marionette's life, immediately untied the rope which held his foot.
-- "Tell me, impudent little rogue, does your story end here?"
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