needle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 针， 指针， 针状物，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She turned round so suddenly that one might have sup-posed a needle had been stuck into her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- [3] Inclination is the dip of the magnetic needle with a tendency to incline towards the earth.
-- "Why, that the needle instead of dipping towards the pole as it does on earth, in the northern hemisphere, has an upward tendency."
-- "Exactly, my observant nephew," exclaimed my uncle, elated and delighted, "and it is quite probable that if we succeed in getting toward the polar regions --somewhere near the seventy-third degree of latitude, where Sir James Ross discovered the magnetic pole, we shall behold the needle point directly upward.
-- The needle of the compass pointed due north--in the direction we expected was the south!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not easy to make out Little Dorrit's face; she was so retiring, plied her needle in such removed corners, and started away so scared if encountered on the stairs.
-- He had but glanced away at the piles of city roofs and chimneys among which the smoke was rolling heavily, and at the wilderness of masts on the river, and the wilderness of steeples on the shore, indistinctly mixed together in the stormy haze, when she was again as quiet as if she had been plying her needle in his mother's room.
-- 'I must openly admit that I have no pretensions,' said Flora, 'but having known the dear little thing which under altered circumstances appears a liberty but is not so intended and Goodness knows there was no favour in half-a-crown a-day to such a needle as herself but quite the other way and as to anything lowering in it far from it the labourer is worthy of his hire and I am sure I only wish he got it oftener and more animal food and less rheumatism in the back and legs poor soul.'
-- When you have sat at your needle in my room, you have been in fear of me, but you have supposed me to have been doing you a kindness; you are better informed now, and know me to have done you an injury.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At that minute Jo was particularly absorbed in dress-making, for she was mantua-maker general to the family, and took especial credit to herself because she could use a needle as well as a pen.
-- It flew open, and there he stood in his dressing gown, with a big blue sock on one hand and a darn-ing needle in the other.
-- All this flashed through his mind in a minute, but not a trace of it appeared in his face, and by the time the paper was turned, and Jo's needle threaded, he was ready to say quite naturally, but very gravely... 'Yes, you are right to put it from you.
-- It was well for all that this peaceful time was given them as preparation for the sad hours to come, for by-and-by, Beth said the needle was 'so heavy', and put it down forever.
-- The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew 'so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
-- Though the body was erect, the head was thrown back so that the closed eyes were pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale that swung from a beam in the ceiling.
-- When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.
-- Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle.
-- But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know whether she should ever be able to part with them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The needle of understanding will yet point steadfast and unwavering to the distinct pole of truth.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had to do some- thing with my hands; so I took up a needle off of the table and went to threading it.
-- I put down the needle and thread, and let on to be in- terested and I was, too and says: 'Three hundred dollars is a power of money.
-- Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way.
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