furnace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 炉子, 熔炉，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：
-- Dull roarings of flame and the whistling sound of a furnace ran along under the thin crust.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was surprised by lightning in the midst of these luminous sheets, as though they had been rivulets of lead melted in an ardent furnace or metallic masses brought to a white heat, so that, by force of contrast, certain portions of light appeared to cast a shade in the midst of the general ignition, from which all shade seemed banished.
-- An order was given; the Nautilus tacked about and left the furnace it could not brave with impunity.
-- "But, sir, will you tell me why the Great Architect has suspended operations, and how it is that the furnace is replaced by the quiet waters of the lake?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Carton,' said his friend, squaring himself at him with a bullying air, as if the fire-grate had been the furnace in which sustained endeavour was forged, and the one delicate thing to be done for the old Sydney Carton of old Shrews-bury School was to shoulder him into it, 'your way is, and always was, a lame way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the evening of the 15th of April they returned to the Chimneys, carrying with them the pottery, the furnace being extinguished until they could put it to a new use.
-- During the following days the settlers had time to construct a furnace of bricks of a particular arrangement, to serve for the distillation of the sulphate or iron when it had been obtained.
-- The crystals were placed in pots, and the heat from the furnace would distil the sulphuric acid.
-- Cyrus Harding had taken precautions against this contingency, so as to preserve as much as possible the forge and furnace which were established there.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through these bewildering sights and deafening sounds, their conductor led them to where, in a dark portion of the building, one furnace burnt by night and day so, at least, they gathered from the motion of his lips, for as yet they could only see him speak: not hear him.
-- 'I know little of the country,' he said, shaking his head, 'for such as I, pass all our lives before our furnace doors, and seldom go forth to breathe.
-- And thus they separated; the child to lead her sacred charge farther from guilt and shame; the labourer to attach a fresh interest to the spot where his guests had slept, and read new histories in his furnace fire.
-- The old fireside had smiled upon that same sweet face; it had passed, like a dream, through haunts of misery and care; at the door of the poor schoolmaster on the summer evening, before the furnace fire upon the cold wet night, at the still bedside of the dying boy, there had been the same mild lovely look.
-- The sisters at the school they who were her friends, because themselves so friendless Mrs Jarley of the wax-work, Codlin, Short he found them all; and trust me, the man who fed the furnace fire was not forgotten.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, as the others' footsteps died away he sat down again and continued gazing as usual into the furnace with his red, bleared eyes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
-- Whether I really had been down in Garden Court in the dead of the night, groping about for the boat that I supposed to be there; whether I had two or three times come to myself on the staircase with great terror, not knowing how I had got out of bed; whether I had found myself lighting the lamp, possessed by the idea that he was coming up the stairs, and that the lights were blown out; whether I had been inexpressibly harassed by the distracted talking, laughing, and groaning of some one, and had half suspected those sounds to be of my own making; whether there had been a closed iron furnace in a dark corner of the room, and a voice had called out, over and over again, that Miss Havisham was consuming within it,--these were things that I tried to settle with myself and get into some order, as I lay that morning on my bed.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bottom of the crater was composed of three separate shafts, through which, during periods of eruption, when Sneffels was in action, the great central furnace sent forth its burning lava and poisonous vapors.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In answer to this direct appeal, Mrs Merdle assured Mrs Gowan (speaking as a Priestess of Society) that she was highly to be commended, that she was much to be sympathised with, that she had taken the highest of parts, and had come out of the furnace refined.
-- She returned this fealty by causing it to be understood that she was even more incensed against the felonious shade of the deceased than anybody else was; thus, on the whole, she came out of her furnace like a wise woman, and did exceedingly well.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm.
-- This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole place was cosey, in that it was lighted by gas and heated by furnace registers, possessing also a small grate, set with an asbestos back, a method of cheerful warming which was then first coming into use.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a big one, and she was coming in a hurry, too, look-ing like a black cloud with rows of glow-worms around it; but all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary, with a long row of wide-open furnace doors shining like red-hot teeth, and her monstrous bows and guards hanging right over us.
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