bulk是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 容量; 体积; 大块，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：
-- Before us lay the dark bulk of the house, its serrated roof and bristling chimneys hard out-lined against the silver-spangled sky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them?'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beyond him was the turreted bulk of the Main Medical Building, a harsh and blurry mass, high up in its dark wall a single light.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether itoccurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast betweenthese plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to sayof paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of thehonest, working community; of whom not one man in fivehundred ever dined half so well.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were the fifty with their lambs, enclosed at the other end as he had left them, but the rest, forming the bulk of the flock, were nowhere.
-- Seven hundred and fifty pounds in the divinest form that money can wear that of necessary food for man and beast: should the risk be run of deteriorating this bulk of corn to less than half its value, because of the instability of a woman?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw the dark bulk of a buggy stop in front of the house and indistinct figures alight.
-- Here loomed up the dark bulk of the mock-orange hedge that marked the beginning of the Macintosh property.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They supplied me as fast as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite.
-- He desired 'I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me sever-al weapons, which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.'
-- In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell con-tained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
-- For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather con-jecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
-- I walked with intrepidity five or six times before the very head of the cat, and came within half a yard of her; where-upon she drew herself back, as if she were more afraid of me: I had less apprehension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four came into the room, as it is usual in farmers' houses; one of which was a mastiff, equal in bulk to four elephants, and another a greyhound, somewhat taller than the mastiff, but not so large.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could just see the bulk of him.
-- And this was England, the vast bulk of England: as Connie knew, since she had motored from the centre of it.
-- As she rose on to the high country, she could see on her left, on a height above the rolling land, the shadowy, pow-erful bulk of Warsop Castle, dark grey, with below it the reddish plastering of miners' dwellings, newish, and be-low those the plumes of dark smoke and white steam from the great colliery which put so many thousand pounds per annum into the pockets of the Duke and the other share-holders.
-- The powerful old castle was a ruin, yet it hung its bulk on the low sky-line, over the black plumes and the white that waved on the damp air below.
-- In front, looming again and hanging on the brow of the sky-line, was the huge and splendid bulk of Chadwick Hall, more window than wall, one of the most famous Elizabethan houses.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.
-- For, it was not so much his uncommon bulk that so much distinguished him from other sperm whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump.
-- The living whale, in his full majesty and significance, is only to be seen at sea in unfathomable waters; and afloat the vast bulk of him is out of sight, like a launched line-of-battle ship; and out of that element it is a thing eternally impossible for mortal man to hoist him bodily into the air, so as to preserve all his mighty swells and undulations.
-- In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs.
-- But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs."
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