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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
-- A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.
-- Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
-- Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
-- 'Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me,' replied Oliver: more as if he were talking to himself, than answering Noah.
-- This seemed to be some watchword or signal that all was right; for the light of a feeble candle gleamed on the wall at the remote end of the passage; and a man's face peeped out, from where a balustrade of the old kitchen staircase had been broken away.
-- Oliver, groping his way with one hand, and having the other firmly grasped by his companion, ascended with much difficulty the dark and broken stairs: which his conductor mounted with an ease and expedition that showed he was well acquainted with them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy to-gether; and fourthly, that the match might be broken off.
-- When Lady Catherine and her daughter had played as long as they chose, the tables were broken up, the car-riage was offered to Mrs. Collins, gratefully accepted and immediately ordered.
-- Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart; and then he will be sorry for what he has done.'
-- I thought I should have broken my heart.'
-- It was first broken by Mrs. Annesley, a genteel, agreeable-looking woman, whose endeavour to introduce some kind of discourse proved her to be more truly well-bred than either of the others; and between her and Mrs. Gardiner, with occasional help from Elizabeth, the conversation was carried on.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, there was no time to debate, for we fancied that the ship would break in pieces every minute, and some told us she was actually broken already.
-- I first laid all the planks or boards upon it that I could get, and having considered well what I most wanted, I got three of the seamen's chests, which I had broken open, and emptied, and lowered them down upon my raft; the first of these I filled with provisions - viz.
-- And thus, having found two or three broken oars belonging to the boat - and, besides the tools which were in the chest, I found two saws, an axe, and a hammer; with this cargo I put to sea.
-- But here I had like to have suffered a second shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broken my heart; for, knowing nothing of the coast, my raft ran aground at one end of it upon a shoal, and not being aground at the oth-er end, it wanted but a little that all my cargo had slipped off towards the end that was afloat, and to fallen into the water.
-- As soon as I found water enough - for my raft drew about a foot of water - I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground, and there fastened or moored her, by stick-ing my two broken oars into the ground, one on one side near one end, and one on the other side near the other end; and thus I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, "It is folly to linger in this manner.
-- A short pause succeeded this speech, which was first broken by Miss Steele, who seemed very much disposed for conversation, and who now said rather abruptly, "And how do you like Devonshire, Miss Dashwood?
-- It was broken by Lucy, who renewed the subject again by saying, with some hesitation,"I cannot bear to have you think me impertinently curious.
-- I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
-- He has broken no faith with me."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this account the silence was irritably broken by a reproof.
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