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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Who in future story will speak well of you unless you now save the Argives from ruin?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There's a story," said the mariner, fixing Mr. Marvel with an eye that was firm and deliberate; "there's a story about an Invisible Man, for instance."
-- Here it is: 'Pe-culiar Story from Iping.'
-- The story of the flying money was true.
-- It was ten days after and indeed only when the Burdock story was already old that the mariner collated these facts and began to understand how near he had been to the wonderful Invisible Man.
-- The story he had been active to ridicule only that morning rushed through Kemp's brain.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With that understood, there seems no harm in putting this strange story before the public in accordance, as I believe, with my uncle's intentions.
-- (The Story written by Edward Prendick.)
-- The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat 'Myrtle,' and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible 'Medusa' case.
-- But I have to add to the published story of the 'Lady Vain' an-other, possibly as horrible and far stranger.
-- And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was laughing, while Buldeo, the Tower musket across his knees, climbed on from one wonderful story to another, and Mow-gli's shoulders shook.
-- And Messua cried, and Buldeo embroidered the story of his adventures in the jungle, till he ended by saying that Akela stood up on his hind legs and talked like a man.
-- But that is a story for grown-ups.
-- I am the last of the Lost Rookery of Masafuera, and in the days when men killed us by the hundred thousand there was a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place.
-- And tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe; Ere, empty as the shark's egg the tempest flings ashore, The Beaches of Lukannon shall know their sons no more!
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You have the story told by your fathers,' returned the other, coldly waving his hand.
-- But every story has its two sides; so I ask you, Chingachgook, what passed, according to the traditions of the red men, when our fathers first met?'
-- 'But, as a story should always commence at the beginning, I will tell you the whole in order.
-- When his brief story was ended, the father of the sick woman stepped forth, and, in a few pithy expression, related, in his turn, what he knew.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such is the general purport of this legendary supersti-tion, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
-- There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine-pounder from a mud breastwork, only that his gun burst at the sixth discharge.
-- This story was immediately matched by a thrice mar-vellous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey.
-- It was connected with the tragical story of the un-fortunate Andre, who had been taken prisoner hard by; and was universally known by the name of Major Andre's tree.
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