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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officerswere hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
-- "He's been broken hearted because he thinks I'm in love with Brent or Stuart or Cade.
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
-- Yes, Gerald hadlooked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him.
-- Here was this fool expecting her tobe excited about Mr. Lincoln's didoes when her heart was broken and her reputation as good as ruined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
-- I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
-- But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.
-- "It was some broken wittles--that's what it was--and a dram of liquor, and a pie."
-- I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts,--a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and then they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!The robbers, who had been not a little 25frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.
-- 'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live.'
-- Then the old cook scolded and said: 'You simpletons, you should have cut the rose-bush in two, and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you; go, and do it at once.'
-- But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, 204 Grimms' Fairy Talesas she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.
-- The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the wash-ing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable sup-ply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.
-- The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for those were the strongest) preserved the bal-ance while it fell, and hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water.
-- I was afraid of trampling on every travel-ler I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken 188 Gulliver's Travelsheads for my impertinence.
-- Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials, to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences; which, however, might be still improved, and much ex-pedited, if the public would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several col-lections.
-- Thus, hope and expectation would be kept alive; none would complain of broken promises, but impute their disappointments wholly to fortune, whose shoulders are broader and stronger than those of a ministry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- Last of all appeared Mr. Sleary: a stout man as already mentioned, with one fixed eye, and one loose eye, a voice (if it can be called so) like the efforts of a broken old pair of bellows, a flabby surface, and a muddled head which was never sober and never drunk.
-- He took no place among those remarkable 'Hands,' who, piecing together their broken intervals of leisure through many years, had mastered difficult sciences, and acquired a knowledge of most unlikely things.
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