whistle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 口哨， 汽笛； 口哨声， 汽笛声v. 吹口哨； 鸣笛，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge's niece played well upon the harp; and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere noth-ing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind seemed as though lying in wait for her; with gleeful whistle it tried to snatch her up and bear her off, but she clung to the cold door post, and holding her skirt got down onto the platform and under the shelter of the carriages.
-- At that moment the wind, as it were, surmounting all obstacles, sent the snow flying from the carriage roofs, and clanked some sheet of iron it had torn off, while the hoarse whistle of the engine roared in front, plaintively and gloomily.
-- They heard a shrill whistle in the distance, and in the exact time, so well known to the sportsman, two seconds later-- another, a third, and after the third whistle the hoarse, guttural cry could be heard.
-- But at that very instant both suddenly heard a shrill whistle which, as it were, smote on their ears, and both suddenly seized their guns and two flashes gleamed, and two gangs sounded at the very same instant.
-- At last the third bell rang, there was a whistle and a hiss of steam, and a clank of chains, and the man in her carriage crossed himself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg and his servant seated themselves in a first-class carriage at twenty minutes before nine; five minutes later the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out of the station.
-- At four the party found themselves again at the station, took their places in the train, and the whistle sounded for starting.
-- The whistle of the locomotive, more powerful than Amphion's lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil.
-- At eleven o'clock the locomotive's whistle announced that they were approaching Plum Creek station.
-- They were to begin firing at the first whistle of the locomotive.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whistle snorted contemptuously; the hawsers were cast off.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, I'll tell you what, young Copperfield,' said he: 'the wineshall be kept to wet your whistle when you are story-telling.'
-- Shemight whistle for her bread and butter till she died of Air.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He passed by Yalbury Wood where the game-birds were rising to their roosts, and heard the crack-voiced cock-pheasants "cu-uck, cuck," and the wheezy whistle of the hens.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Confederacy can whistle for its taxes.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We stood gazing at each other for some time; at last I took the boldness to reach my hand towards his neck with a design to stroke it, using the common style and whistle of jockeys, when they are going to handle a strange horse.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I must be calm," I said, speaking aloud, as boys whistle to drive away fear.
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：
-- From the rather dismal rooms at Wragby she heard the rattle-rattle of the screens at the pit, the puff of the winding-engine, the clink-clink of shunting trucks, and the hoarse little whistle of the colliery locomotives.
-- And Connie heard a low whistle behind her.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jo would whistle and make a great racket get-ting ready.
-- A.S. is requested not to whistle in the street.
-- Whatever his feelings might have been, Laurie found a vent for them in a long low whistle and the fearful predic-tion as they parted at the gate, 'Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page as I fancied stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment.
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