drum是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 鼓； 圆桶，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Vengeance stooped, and the jar of a drum was heard as she moved it at her feet behind the counter.
-- Instantly Madame Defarge's knife was in her girdle; the drum was beating in the streets, as if it and a drummer had flown together by magic; and The Vengeance, uttering ter-rific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women.
-- Saint Antoine slept, the Defarges slept: even The Ven-geance slept with her starved grocer, and the drum was at rest.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hear how it beats like a drum on the dock-leaves!'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the sweetmeat seller in the camp lent him a lit-tle tom-tom a drum beaten with the flat of the hand and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the stars be-gan to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all alone among the elephant fodder.
-- The elephants were stamping all together now, and it sounded like a war drum beaten at the mouth of a cave.
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：
-- He was interrupted by the clamor of a drum from the approaching Frenchmen, which was immediately answered, when each party pushed an orderly in advance, bearing a white flag, and the wary Scotsman halted with his guard close at his back.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I really must tell you that I was formerly a researcher in an Institute called McGurk, and learned several of these things all by myself!Hell, Terry, and you, Mart, don't be so egotistic!You're not the only scientists who like to work undisturbed!If you poor fish only knew how I long to get away from signing letters and get my fingers on a kymograph drum again!Those beautiful long hours of search for truth!And if you knew how I've fought the Trustees for the chance to keep you fellows free!All right.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After lingering at the finger-post for a few minutes to see the stilts frisking away in the moonlight and the bearer of the drum toiling slowly after them, he blew a few notes upon the trumpet as a parting salute, and hastened with all speed to follow Mr Codlin.
-- The lady of the caravan then bade him come up the steps likewise, but the drum proving an inconvenient table for two, they descended again, and sat upon the grass, where she handed down to them the tea-tray, the bread and butter, the knuckle of ham, and in short everything of which she had partaken herself, except the bottle which she had already embraced an opportunity of slipping into her pocket.
-- Their patroness then shut the door and sat herself down by her drum at an open window; and, the steps being struck by George and stowed under the carriage, away they went, with a great noise of flapping and creaking and straining, and the bright brass knocker, which nobody ever knocked at, knocking one perpetual double knock of its own accord as they jolted heavily along.
-- The light cart in which the Brigand usually made his perambulations being gaily dressed with flags and streamers, and the Brigand placed therein, contemplating the miniature of his beloved as usual, Nell was accommodated with a seat beside him, decorated with artificial flowers, and in this state and ceremony rode slowly through the town every morning, dispersing handbills from a basket, to the sound of drum and trumpet.
-- Straightway, the stage would be set up in front of Mr Brass's house; the single gentleman would establish himself at the first floor window; and the entertainment would proceed, with all its exciting accompaniments of fife and drum and shout, to the excessive consternation of all sober votaries of business in that silent thoroughfare.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Neither drum nor trumpet have I heard since Christmas," said Jan Coggan.
-- Every looker-on's inside shook with the blows of the great drum to his deepest vitals, and there was not a dry eye throughout the town among the public-house people and the nameless women!"
-- It was a stupefying blast, harsh and pitiless, and it fell upon their ears in a dead, flat blow, without that reverberation which lends the tones of a drum to more distant thunder.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sidewalks were crowded with men in uniform, bearing the insignia of all ranks and allservice branches; the narrow street was jammed with vehicles carriages, buggies, ambulances, covered army wagonswith profane drivers swearing as the mules struggled through the ruts; gray-clad couriers dashed spattering through thestreets from one headquarters to another, bearing orders and telegraphic dispatches; convalescents limped about oncrutches, usually with a solicitous lady at either elbow; bugle and drum and barked orders sounded from the drill fieldswhere the recruits were being turned into soldiers; and with her heart in her throat, Scarlett had her first sight ofYankee uniforms, as Uncle Peter pointed with his whip to a detachment of dejected-looking bluecoats beingshepherded toward the depot by a squad of Confederates with fixed bayonets, to entrain for the prison camp.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Kidderminster, grown too maturely turfy to be received by the wildest credulity as Cupid any more, had yielded to the invincible force of circumstances (and his beard), and, in the capacity of a man who made himself generally useful, presided on this occasion over the exchequer having also a drum in reserve, on which to expend his leisure moments and superfluous forces.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house is empty half the day, so come and drum away as much as you like, and I shall be obliged to you.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thud, thud, thud, came the drum with a vibrating resonance, and for the moment I did not notice two urchins stopping at the railings by me.
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