cannon是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 大炮 vi. 开炮，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《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brass cannon stood on the forward deck of the Tankadere, for making signals in the fogs.
-- And the booming of the little cannon resounded in the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For your very great politeness, I am sure,' said Miss Murdstone;with an irony which no more affected my aunt than it discomposedthe cannon I had slept by at Chatham.
-- The thunder of the cannon was so loud and incessant, that I couldnot hear something I much desired to hear, until I made a greatexertion and awoke.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba did not look quite so alarmed as if a cannon had been discharged by her ear, which was what Oak had expected.
-- and at the same moment bang again went the cannon in the background, followed by a hideous clang of music from a drum, tambourine, clarionet, serpent, hautboy, tenor-viol, and double-bass the only remaining relics of the true and original Weatherbury band venerable worm-eaten instruments, which had celebrated in their own persons the victories of Marlborough, under the fingers of the forefathers of those who played them now.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Has any one of you gentlemen ever thought that there's not a cannon factory south of the Mason-Dixon Line?
-- Skilled men these, without whom the Confederacy would have been hard put to make pistols, rifles, cannon andpowder.
-- Lying between Atlanta and Dalton was the city of Romewith its cannon foundry and its other industries, and Etowah and Allatoona with the largest ironworks south ofRichmond.
-- In the early morning hoursbefore the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dimbooming that might have passed for summer thunder.
-- With the far-off rumbling of cannon in their ears, the state militia, "Joe Brown's Pets," and the Home Guardmarched out of Atlanta, to defend the bridges and ferries of the Chattahoochee River at Johnston's back.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Didn't you hear the cannon last night?"
-- We had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear.
-- Now and then, the sound of the signal cannon broke upon us again, and again rolled sulkily along the course of the river.
-- I have a notion of firing eighty-two times, if the neighborhood shouldn't complain, and that cannon of mine should prove equal to the pressure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any of the following whales, shall hereafter be caught and marked, then he can readily be incorporated into this System, according to his Folio, Octavo, or Duodecimo magnitude: The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; etc.
-- If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.
-- After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew.
-- Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- two fowling-pieces - for I had three in all - and three mus-kets - for of them I had eight in all; so I kept in my castle only five, which stood ready mounted like pieces of cannon on my outmost fence, and were ready also to take out upon any expedition.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top.
-- and the cannon let off such a blast right be-fore me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sea was like oil, the moon shone in all splendor, and the Shark continued to sleep so soundly that not even a cannon shot would have awakened him.
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