foul是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 恶臭的; 邪恶的; 暴风雨的; n. (体育) 犯规; v. 弄脏, 玷污; (使) 缠结,犯规，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
-- But it was not the sight of her body, nor yet was it that of the body of Hugo Baskerville lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of these three daredevil roys-terers, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon.
-- There is no reason whatever to suspect foul play, or to imag-ine that death could be from any but natural causes.
-- Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides.
-- 'There's foul play somewhere, and there's black vil-lainy brewing, to that I'll swear!Very glad I should be, sir, to see Sir Henry on his way back to London again!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If,' said Agamemnon, 'you are sons of Antimachus, who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaus and Ulysses, who had come to you as envoys, should be killed and not suffered to return, you shall now pay for the foul iniquity of your father.'
-- What is the use of our bandying hard like women who when they fall foul of one another go out and wrangle in the streets, one half true and the other lies, as rage in-spires them?
-- The son of Atreus was afraid and shout-ed out, 'Antilochus, you are driving recklessly; rein in your horses; the road is too narrow here, it will be wider soon, and you can pass me then; if you foul my chariot you may bring both of us to a mischief.'
-- They went side by side for about as far as a young man can hurl a disc from his shoulder when he is trying his strength, and then Menelaus's mares drew behind, for he left off driving for fear the horses should foul one another and upset the chariots; thus, while pressing on in quest of victory, they might both come headlong to the ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My only idea for the moment was to get away from these foul beings, and I scarcely noticed that I had emerged upon a faint pathway amidst the trees.
-- 'But these foul creatures of yours ' 'All in good time,' said he, waving his hand at me; 'I am only beginning.
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：
-- The one will, at least, remove foul sights from before the face of man, while the other is only good to brew disturbances in the woods, by cheating the ears of all that hear them.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters.
-- ); teeming ideas of Covent Garden, as a place of past and present mystery, romance, abundance, want, beauty, ugliness, fair country gardens, and foul street gutters; all confused together, made the room dimmer than it was in Little Dorrit's eyes, as they timidly saw it from the door.
-- Cavalletto dropped on one knee, and implored him, with a redundancy of gesticulation, to hear what had brought himself into such foul company.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds.
-- And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must come out.
-- "I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard," said Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so ignoble a leviathan.
-- At this instant, while Daggoo, on the summit of the head, was clearing the whip which had somehow got foul of the great cutting tackles a sharp cracking noise was heard; and to the unspeakable horror of all, one of the two enormous hooks suspending the head tore out, and with a vast vibration the enormous mass sideways swung, till the drunk ship reeled and shook as if smitten by an iceberg.
-- yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line, rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth day, I think, as well as my poor wood-en calendar would reckon, for I marked all upon the post still; I say, it was on the sixteenth of May that it blew a very great storm of wind all day, with a great deal of lightning and thunder, and; a very foul night it was after it.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The washrooms were disagreeable, crude, if not foul places, and the whole atmosphere was sordid.
-- He must come to the barns in the morning and wait around in fair and foul weather until such time as he was needed.
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