mast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 桅杆； 杆vt. 扯帆，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：
-- Lady Helena and Mary Grant descended by a rope ladder, and took their station at the foot of the mast on the cases of provisions, their companions near them.
-- "Is it part of the mast of the MACQUARIE?"
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A high mast was fixed on the frame, held firmly by metallic lashings, to which was attached a large brigantine sail.
-- This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a jib-sail.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, andlay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and allthat ruin, as the ship rolled and beat- which she did without amoment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable- beat theside as if it would stave it in.
-- The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, anda wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.
-- I sawthat she was parting in the middle, and that the life of the solitaryman upon the mast hung by a thread.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chest-nuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trou-ble very great, and they had little or no crop.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shadow of the raft, its mast and sails, is clearly distinguished on the surface of the water.
-- Still the mast holds good against the storm.
-- The mast and sail are carried away bodily, and I see them swept away to a prodigious height like a kite.
-- While I had been speaking, he had hoisted a new mast and sail, the latter already fluttering and waving in the breeze.
-- Seated gloomily on the raft, clasping the stump of the mast mechanically, I thought of all I had read as to sufferings from starvation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for the residue of the Pequod's company, be it said, that at the present day not one in two of the many thousand men before the mast employed in the American whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are.
-- "Aye, he was dismasted off Japan," said the old Gay-Head Indian once; "but like his dismasted craft, he shipped another mast without coming home for it.
-- For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.
-- The harpoons and lances lie levelled for use; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in its hole; while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse.
-- Halloo, here's grass growing in the boat's bottom and by the Lord, the mast there's budding.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Two more ships, being driven from their anchors, were run out of the Roads to sea, at all adventures, and that with not a mast standing.
-- For this purpose, that I might do everything with discre-tion and consideration, I fitted up a little mast in my boat, and made a sail too out of some of the pieces of the ship's sails which lay in store, and of which I had a great stock by me.
-- Having fitted my mast and sail, and tried the boat, I found she would sail very well; then I made little lockers or boxes at each end of my boat, to put provisions, necessar-ies, ammunition, &c., into, to be kept dry, either from rain or the spray of the sea; and a little, long, hollow place I cut in the inside of the boat, where I could lay my gun, making a flap to hang down over it to keep it dry.
-- By this time I had got at a frightful distance from the island, and had the least cloudy or hazy weather intervened, I had been un-done another way, too; for I had no compass on board, and should never have known how to have steered towards the island, if I had but once lost sight of it; but the weather con-tinuing clear, I applied myself to get up my mast again, and spread my sail, standing away to the north as much as pos-sible, to get out of the current.
-- Just as I had set my mast and sail, and the boat began to stretch away, I saw even by the clearness of the water some alteration of the current was near; for where the current was so strong the water was foul; but perceiving the water clear, I found the current abate; and presently I found to the east, at about half a mile, a breach of the sea upon some rocks: these rocks I found caused the current to part again, and as the main stress of it ran away more southerly, leaving the rocks to the north-east, so the other returned by the re-pulse of the rocks, and made a strong eddy, which ran back again to the north-west, with a very sharp stream.
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