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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brom Bones, too, who, shortly after his rival's dis-appearance conducted the blooming Katrina in triumph to the altar, was observed to look exceedingly knowing when-ever the story of Ichabod was related, and always burst into a hearty laugh at the mention of the pumpkin; which led some to suspect that he knew more about the matter than he chose to tell.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary.
-- His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the auto da fe of an heretic when with some forgotten story he can confound the filial piety of the Rev.
-- That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace.
-- I discovered presently that a peculiar story was circulating among her friends.
-- Her education made it likely that she would be a typist more efficient than the average, and her story made her claims appealing.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let us give them names, as the Robinsons did, whose story Herbert has often read to me; Providence Bay, Whale Point, Cape Disappointment!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The story I am about to relate, and to which I shall recur at intervals, arose out of one of these rambles; and thus I have been led to speak of them by way of preface.
-- The door being opened, the child addressed him as grandfather, and told him the little story of our companionship.
-- 'You've shown me so many,' returned Dick; 'and nothing has come of any one of 'em but empty pockets ''You'll tell a different story of this one, before a very long time is over,' said his companion, drawing his chair to the table.
-- And so he went on, content to read the book of her heart from the page first presented to him, little dreaming of the story that lay hidden in its other leaves, and murmuring within himself that at least the child was happy.
-- To this, Kit's mother replied, that certainly it was quite true, and quite right, and quite proper, and Heaven forbid that she should shrink, or have cause to shrink, from any inquiry into her character or that of her son, who was a very good son though she was his mother, in which respect, she was bold to say, he took after his father, who was not only a good son to his mother, but the best of husbands and the best of fathers besides, which Kit could and would corroborate she knew, and so would little Jacob and the baby likewise if they were old enough, which unfortunately they were not, though as they didn't know what a loss they had had, perhaps it was a great deal better that they should be as young as they were; and so Kit's mother wound up a long story by wiping her eyes with her apron, and patting little Jacob's head, who was rocking the cradle and staring with all his might at the strange lady and gentleman.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only the clerk, infected by the example set by the colonel, thought of telling a story of his own.
-- Rabelais relates the story of a jurist who was trying a case, and who, after citing innumerable laws and reading twenty pages of incomprehensible judicial Latin, made an offer to the litigants to throw dice; if an even number fell then the plaintiff was right; if an odd number the defendant was right.
-- The verdict was reached not because the majority of the jury agreed to it, but first because the justiciary had so drawn out his speech that he failed to properly instruct the jury; second, because the colonel's story about his brother-in-law's wife was tedious; third, because Nekhludoff was so excited that he did not notice the omission of the clause limiting the intent in the answer, and thought that the words "without intent to rob" negatively answered the question; fourth, because Peter Gerasimovich was not in the room when the foreman read the questions and answers, and chiefly because the jury were tired out and were anxious to get away, and therefore agreed to the verdict which it was easiest to reach.
-- To the right stood a few frame houses; to the left a two- story building over which hung a large sign.
-- Her story was interrupted by voices and steps on the upper corridor.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's too long a story to tell over greasy plates."
-- I will," he went on, "tell you the story of what has happened to me, if you like, but you must refrain from interruptions.
-- And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth.
-- But my story slips away from me as I speak of her.
-- "I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.
-- The supervisor stood up straight and stiff and told his story like a lesson; and you should have seen how the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at each other, and forgot to smoke in their surprise and interest.
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