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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing could excite him, nothing could disturb him, not even a cannon ball, and no doubt he will die without ever having known even a passing feeling of irritation.
-- "That's the cannon of the DUNCAN."
-- A few seconds, and the heavy boom of the cannon came across the water and died away on the shore.
-- He explored the coal-bunkers, the store-room, the powder-store, and armory, in which last he seemed to be particularly attracted by a cannon mounted on the forecastle.
-- The savages kept up a running fire, and shots were raining round the canoe, when suddenly a loud report was heard, and a ball from the yacht's cannon passed over their heads, and now the boat remained motionless between the DUNCAN and the native canoes.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Very well, but even if we admit that he was alive in 1812, can one believe that a French chasseur pointed a cannon at him for a lark, and shot his left leg off?
-- He invites me to Moscow in order to prove his assertion, and show me his leg's tomb, and the very cannon that shot him; he says it's the eleventh from the gate of the Kremlin, an old-fashioned falconet taken from the French afterwards.'
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last I fell over the tail-end of a gun, and by that knew I was somewhere near the artillery lines where the cannon were stacked at night.
-- The screw-guns are tiny little cannon made in two pieces, that are screwed together when the time comes to use them.
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：
-- In this dilemma, Uncas lighted on the furrow of the cannon ball, where it had cut the ground in three adjacent ant-hills.
-- A hundred gay and thoughtless young Frenchmen were drawing a net to the pebbly beach, within dangerous prox-imity to the sullen but silent cannon of the fort, while the eastern mountain was sending back the loud shouts and gay merriment that attended their sport.
-- After musing a moment, he added: 'It is possible my glasses have deceived me, and that your works resist our cannon better than I had supposed.
-- 'Why did the chief of the Canadas bring his young men into the woods, and fire his cannon at the earthen house?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- it seemed as if the violent storm had produced a truce between the besiegers and the besieged, and that the cannon were silenced by the louder detonations of the storm.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.
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