bronze是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 青铜, 青铜色, 青铜器，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dark panelling glowed like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which had struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.
-- 'He grazed his cattle on these slopes, and he learned to dig for tin when the bronze sword began to supersede the stone axe.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The room had a blue wall-paper, and was well, almost pretentiously, furnished, with its round table, its divan, and its bronze clock under a glass shade.
-- There was a narrow pierglass against the wall, and a chandelier adorned with lustres hung by a bronze chain from the ceiling.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, the rough medley dress of home-spun stuff and hairy skins of beasts, the powerful frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desper-ate compression of the lips in sleep, inspired the mender of roads with awe.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly flinging a fresh cloth over the round table under the bronze chandelier, though it already had a table cloth on it, he pushed up velvet chairs, and came to a standstill before Stepan Arkadyevitch with a napkin and a bill of fare in his hands, awaiting his commands.
-- Precisely at five o'clock, before the bronze Peter the First clock had struck the fifth stroke, Alexey Alexandrovitch came in, wearing a white tie and evening coat with two stars, as he had to go out directly after dinner.
-- With rapid, bony fingers he unbuttoned his coat, revealing a shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and quickly pulled out a fat old pocketbook.
-- Fixing her eyes on a bronze clock standing on a table between the windows, she tried to think.
-- The marble washstand, the dressing table, the little sofa, the tables, the bronze clock on the chimney piece, the window curtains, and the portieres were all new and expensive.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The flat was full of literature and decoration: a bronze Buddha from Chicago, a rubbing of Shakespeare's epitaph, a set of Anatole France in translation, a photograph of Cologne cathedral, a wicker tea-table with a samovar whose operation no one in the University understood, and a souvenir post-card album.
-- He came along Cedar Street, among thunderous trucks portly with wares from all the world; came to the bronze doors of the McGurk Building and a corridor of intemperately colored terracotta, with murals of Andean Indians, pirates booming up the Spanish Main, guarded gold-trains, and the stout walls of Cartagena.
-- The house did, from the street, seem to have an unusual quantity of graystone gargoyles and carven lintels and bronze grills, but it did not seem large.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared by the contemplation of sad hues and sober images.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was herimmobile bronze face.
-- The air was oppressive even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring bluesky and pitiless bronze sun.
-- Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.
-- This was all a dream, this smoke-filled dim room, thescrawny girls, Mammy shapeless and huge crouching beside the bed, Dilcey a still bronze image with the sleepingpink morsel against her dark breast all a dream from which she would awake, to smell bacon frying in the kitchen,hear the throaty laughter of the negroes and the creaking of wagons fieldward bound, and Ellen's gentle insistent handupon her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But no--mystery upon mystery--this is no weapon of the stony epoch, nor even of the bronze period.
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：
-- Today she could almost feel it in her own body, the huge heave of the sap in the massive trees, up-wards, up, up to the bud-a, there to push into little flamey oak-leaves, bronze as blood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in vain for the engaging Ferdinand to bring Lord Decimus to look at the bronze horses near Mr Merdle.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Jo I leave my breastpin, the one mended with sealing wax, also my bronze inkstand she lost the cover and my most precious plaster rabbit, because I am sorry I burned up her story.
-- 'If she only had a servant or two it would be all right,' said Amy, coming out of the parlor, where she had been try-ing to decide whether the bronze Mercury looked best on the whatnot or the mantlepiece.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon discovering any strange sight.
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