barrel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圆桶, 一桶的量, 枪管 vt. 把. . . 装桶，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：
-- Half a barrel of Scotch ale was sent in bodily.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll show him," shouted the man with the black beard, and suddenly a steel barrel shone over the policeman's shoulder, and five bullets had followed one another into the twilight whence the missile had come.
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 instant this unwelcome sight caught the eye of the scout, his rifle was leveled as by instinct, but the barrel gave no answer to the bright sparks of the flint.
-- If advice from one who is not older than yourself, but who, having lived most of his time in the wilderness, may be said to have experience beyond his years, will give no offense, you are welcome to my thoughts; and these are, to part with the little tooting instrument in your jacket to the first fool you meet with, and buy some we'pon with the money, if it be only the barrel of a horseman's pistol.
-- Such a glittering gew-gaw, and not to be seen!Well, well, I can squint along a clouded barrel yet, and that is enough to settle all disputes between me and the Mingoes.
-- Them Hurons have never a piece in their nation that will execute at this distance; but 'killdeer' has a barrel on which a man may calculate.'
-- But I do not admit the right of the Mingoes to bestow a name on one whose friends have been mindful of his gifts, in this particu-lar; especially as their title is a lie, 'killdeer' being a grooved barrel and no carabyne.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But by means of a long, thin piece of iron rolled up like the barrel of a gun, Pencroft succeeded in making a tube soon ready for use.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Disencumbering himself of a barrel organ which he placed upon a chair, and retaining in his hand a small whip wherewith to awe his company of comedians, he came up to the fire to dry himself, and entered into conversation.
-- Notwithstanding these protections, she could get none but broken sleep by fits and starts all night, for fear of Quilp, who throughout her uneasy dreams was somehow connected with the wax-work, or was wax-work himself, or was Mrs Jarley and wax-work too, or was himself, Mrs Jarley, wax-work, and a barrel organ all in one, and yet not exactly any of them either.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
-- The barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders against it, and I was just about to jump up when the man began to speak.
-- "And a brave lad you were, and smart too," answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, "and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on."
-- But there's a thing or two I have to tell you," I said, and by this time I was quite excited; "and the first is this: here you are, in a bad way ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it it was I!I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out.
-- You're a funny man, by your account; but you're over now, and you'll maybe step down off that barrel and help vote."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about twenty of these electric balls, which, by means of a spring, were forced into the barrel of the gun.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the biggest magazine of all kinds now that ever was laid up, I believe, for one man: but I was not satisfied still, for while the ship sat upright in that posture, I thought I ought to get everything out of her that I could; so every day at low water I went on board, and brought away something or other; but particularly the third time I went I brought away as much of the rigging as I could, as also all the small ropes and rope-twine I could get, with a piece of spare can-vas, which was to mend the sails upon occasion, and the barrel of wet gunpowder.
-- But that which comforted me more still, was, that last of all, after I had made five or six such voyages as these, and thought I had nothing more to expect from the ship that was worth my meddling with - I say, after all this, I found a great hogshead of bread, three large runlets of rum, or spirits, a box of sugar, and a barrel of fine flour; this was surprising to me, because I had given over expecting any more provisions, except what was spoiled by the water.
-- I examined the barrel which was driven on shore, and soon found it was a barrel of gunpowder; but it had taken water, and the powder was caked as hard as a stone; however, I rolled it farther on shore for the present, and went on upon the sands, as near as I could to the wreck of the ship, to look for more.
-- Upon this occasion of removing my ammu-nition I happened to open the barrel of powder which I took up out of the sea, and which had been wet, and I found that the water had penetrated about three or four inches into the powder on every side, which caking and growing hard, had preserved the inside like a kernel in the shell, so that I had near sixty pounds of very good powder in the centre of the cask.
-- I had above a barrel and a half of powder left; for after the first year or two I used but -little, and wasted none.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
-- He was standing perfectly still in the street, and had a pistol raised in his right hand not aiming it, but holding it out with the barrel tilted up towards the sky.
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