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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Already Robert and Wilson had leaped on to the solid plateau with a loud, joyful hurrah!when a well-known whistle was heard.
-- The steam was escaping violently, not by the funnel, but from the safety-valves of the boiler; the alarm whistle sounded unnaturally loud, and the yacht made a frightful pitch, overturning Wilson, who was at the wheel, by an unexpected blow from the tiller.
-- A loud whistle interrupted the discussion.
-- During one of these calms a sharp whistle reached them.
-- The mysterious whistle was repeated, and answered by a kind of report, but almost indistinguishable, for the storm was raging with renewed violence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We know all about that!You've only to whistle and they come up in shoals!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fierce as the shrill winds that whistle upon a day when dust lies deep on the roads, and the gusts raise it into a thick cloud even such was the fury of the combat, and might and main did they hack at each other with spear and sword throughout the host.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mowgli repeated, with the Kite's whistle at the end of the sentence.
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：
-- There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me!I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind play-ing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the plea-sure of him who sported with the things of his hand.
-- The varlet sent his lead within whistle of your ears, Sagamore.'
-- Together, friends!we are leaving them, and are al- ready nearly out of whistle of a bullet.'
-- You know the cry of a crow, friend, from the whistle of the whip-poor-will?'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory- nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble field.
-- As Ichabod approached this fearful tree, he began to whistle; he thought his whistle was answered; it was but a blast sweeping sharply through the dry branches.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the mail-boat, stopping for twenty-four hours on its way from Wellington to San Francisco, blew the whistle that warned the passengers to get on board, Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Top was recalled by a slight whistle from his master, and the latter, signing to his companions to wait for him, glided away among the rocks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before he had got through the first two or three lines he began to open his eyes very wide and to frown most horribly, the next two or three caused him to scratch his head in an uncommonly vicious manner, and when he came to the conclusion he gave a long dismal whistle indicative of surprise and dismay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at five o'clock the following morning, which was Sunday, the customary whistle blew, Korableva, who was already awake, roused Maslova.
-- The conductor came with a whistle in his hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried a voice from below, in reply to a whistle from the Dodger.
-- We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey -headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
-- 'When the boy's worth hundreds of pounds to me, am I to lose what chance threw me in the way of getting safely, through the whims of a drunken gang that I could whistle away the lives of!And me bound, too, to a born devil that only wants the will, and has the power to, to--' Panting for breath, the old man stammered for a word; and in that instant checked the torrent of his wrath, and changed his whole demeanour.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If the occupants of both flats answered to the whistle of the janitor at the same time, they would stand face to face when they opened the dumb-waiter doors.
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