sound是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 声音v. 发声， 响a. 健全的， 完好的； 正当的，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
-- From hence the low mur-mur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a bee-hive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, per- The Legend of Sleepy Hollowadventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
-- Then, as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagina-tion, the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech owl, to the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.
-- What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window!How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramp-ing close behind him!and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scourings!
-- And now the sound of the music from the common room, or hall, summoned to the dance.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a sound within, and the door was partly opened.
-- He chose his moment carefully, and tried to make his request sound casual; but he could not master the trembling of his voice; and he felt himself that into words that he wished to seem jovial and friendly there crept the bitterness of his jealousy.
-- He made movements with his lips as though he were speaking, but no sound issued from them.
-- You heard curses in every tongue the sound of blows, cries; and in the middle of the room a dozen men were fighting with all their might.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
-- Except for an occasional sound in the yellow-lit forecastle and a movement of the animals now and then, the night was very still.
-- Then came a sudden pattering of bare feet, the sound of heavy objects being thrown about, a violent creak-ing and the rattling of chains.
-- The distance I had come, or the intervening masses of thicket, deadened any sound that might be com-ing from the enclosure.
-- Then I heard the sound of the sea.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
-- The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound and was striking he knew better than to waste time in biting right and left among the monkeys, who were seated round Mowgli in circles fifty and sixty deep.
-- Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest with-out answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.
-- Then the trees closed up again, and they went on and up, with trumpetings and crashings, and the sound of breaking branches on every side of them.
-- At last there was no sound of any more elephants mov-ing in the forest, and Kala Nag rolled out from his station between the trees and went into the middle of the crowd, clucking and gurgling, and all the elephants began to talk in their own tongue, and to move about.
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：
-- A gen-eral movement among the domestics, and a low sound of gentle voices, announced the approach of those whose pres-ence alone was wanted to enable the cavalcade to move.
-- Though this sudden and startling movement of the Indian produced no sound from the other, in the surprise her veil also was allowed to open its folds, and betrayed an indescribable look of pity, admiration, and horror, as her dark eye followed the easy motions of the sav-age.
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- 'You will diminish them, indeed,' returned the arch girl; 'for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execu-tion and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!'
-- We took wives who bore us children; we worshipped the Great Spirit; and we kept the Maquas beyond the sound of our songs of triumph.'
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