broken是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 被打碎的， 骨折的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a large house, but one of broken for-tunes; for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed.
-- said Scrooge in a broken voice,' remove me from this place.'
-- He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good inten- tions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes the broken reply was, 'Wait!It would kill me if I saw her too soon.'
-- When the wine was gone, and the places where it had been most abundant were raked into a gridiron-pattern by fingers, these demonstra-tions ceased, as suddenly as they had broken out.
-- When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old; but when it was stirred and broken up as it was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter he became a handsome man, not past the prime of life.
-- But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad sweep and rise beyond it, a churchtower, a windmill, a forest for the chase, and a crag with a fortress on it used as a prison.
-- The valet had put her away from the door, the carriage had broken into a brisk trot, the postilions had quickened the pace, she was left far behind, and Monseigneur, again escorted by the Furies, was rapidly diminishing the league or two of distance that remained between him and his cha-165teau.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before: 'O mighty Death!thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?
-- Some of the broken pieces were so large that they were used for windowpanes, through which one could not see one's friends.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He has gone!But has he broken it off with her?"
-- I saw nothing but him, and that the family was broken up.
-- At half-past nine o'clock a particularly joyful and pleasant family conversation over the tea-table at the Oblonskys' was broken up by an apparently simple incident.
-- And afterwards, how he had all at once broken out: he had associated with the most horrible people, and rushed into the most senseless debauchery.
-- They had teased him, called him Noah and Monk; and, when he had broken out, no one had helped him, but everyone had turned away from him with horror and disgust.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He slipped more cautiously than ever through the brush, followed by his companions; the silence around was only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches.
-- From time to time the coast was visible through the broken mist, but no vessel was in sight.
-- She defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On its ledge were a broken test-tube, a broken fishhook, an unlabeled and forgotten bottle of pills, a nail-bristling heel, a frayed cigar-butt, and a rusty lancet stuck in a potato.
-- Knife-gashed tables, broken Morris chairs, and torn rugs were flung about the room, and covered with backless books, hockey shoes, caps, and cigarette stubs.
-- The back room was simpler: cases of sweet and thinly flavored soda, a large ice-box, and two small tables with broken chairs.
-- His ancient sureness was broken into self-pity.
-- At sunset he sat on the back stoop (a very interesting and not too broken soap-box) and from the flamboyant horizon the open country flowed across the thin band of the railroad to his feet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was pacing up and down in her little room, pressing her hands against her chest; her lips were parched and her breathing came in nervous broken gasps.
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