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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lighted it at a little brazier, which was supported upon an elegant bronze stem, and drew the first whiffs with the delight of a lover of smoking who has not smoked for two days.
-- shot, fragments of astronomical instruments, a piece of crown work, and a bronze clock, bearing this inscription "Bazin m'a fait," the mark of the foundry of the arsenal at Brest about 1785.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The passion came up in him, stroke after stroke, like the ringing of a bronze bell, so strong and unflawed and indomitable.
-- His knees tightened to bronze as he hung above her soft face, whose lips parted and whose eyes dilated in a strange violation.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.'
-- Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them.
-- As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me.
-- On his shoulders he bore the skin of a panther, his bow, and his sword, and he brandished two spears shod with bronze as a challenge to the bravest of the Achaeans to meet him in single fight.
-- Hector and Ulysses measured the ground, and cast lots from a helmet of bronze to see which should take aim first.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the writing table she saw a familiar paper-press, with the bronze figure of a dog, neatly arranged portfolios, papers, volumes of the Criminal Code and an English book of Henry George, and a French one by Tard, between the leaves of which was an ivory paper knife.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
-- They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it.
-- I banged with my fist at the bronze panels.
-- If they mean to take your machine away, it's little good your wrecking their bronze panels, and if they don't, you will get it back as soon as you can ask for it.
-- I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx, as much as possible in a corner of memory, until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way.
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