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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apollo sent them a fair wind, so they raised their mast and hoisted their white sails aloft.
-- Mer-iones, who had his arrow ready while Teucer was aiming, snatched the bow out of his hand, and at once promised that he would sacrifice a hecatomb of firstling lambs toApollo lord of the bow; then espying the pigeon high up under the clouds, he hit her in the middle of the wing as she was circling upwards; the arrow went clean through the wing and fixed itself in the ground at Meriones' feet, but the bird perched on the ship's mast hanging her head and with all her feathers drooping; the life went out of her, and she fell heavily from the mast.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green jungle, as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across the sea, and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face, and he and his two guards would be al-most down to earth again.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Far below him the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and indistinct waste of waters, with here and there the tall mast of a sloop, riding quietly at anchor under the land.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some stones for ballast, a mast and a sail, which the captain will make for us some day, and we shall go splendidly!Well, captain and you, Mr. Spilett; and you, Herbert; and you, Neb aren't you coming to try our new vessel?
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now I find that every man before the mast knows more than I do.
-- For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling like a vicious horse, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, and the boom swinging to and fro till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.
-- The blood ran down the faster, to be sure, but I was my own master again and only tacked to the mast by my coat and shirt.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I then open the panel of the bridge, carefully shut till then; I mast it, hoist my sail, take my oars, and I'm off."
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