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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven.
-- 'Father Jove,' he cried, 'that rulest in Ida, most glorious in power, and thou oh Sun, that seest and givest ear to all things, Earth and Rivers, and ye who in the realms below chastise the soul of him that has broken his oath, wit-ness these rites and guard them, that they be not vain.
-- Then the son of Atreus drew his sword, and drove at the projecting part of his helmet, but the sword fell shivered in three or four pieces from his hand, and he cried, looking towards Heaven, 'Father Jove, of all gods thou art the most despiteful; I made sure of my revenge, but the sword has broken in my hand, my spear has been hurled in vain, and I have not killed him.'
-- Or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn boys beat him but he is too many for them, and though they lay about with their sticks they cannot hurt him; still when he has had his fill they at last drive him from the field even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Ajax, ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts.
-- Great Hector is now fighting at our ships; he has broken through the gates and the strong bolt that held them.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she took in his tea she saw broken glass in the corner of the room under the concave mirror, and a golden stain that had been carelessly wiped.
-- His temper continued very uncertain; for the most part his manner was that of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation, and once or twice things were snapped, torn, crushed, or broken in spasmodic gusts of violence.
-- And you've pretty near broken my toe.
-- Kemp walked across the room and picked up the fragments of broken glass.
-- They split a panel, I saw, and in another moment they had broken away the staples of the bolts and stood in the open doorway.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no mistake this time in the quality of the dim, broken sounds; no doubt at all of their source.
-- For it was groaning, broken by sobs and gasps of anguish.
-- So, pant-ing, tumbling against rocks, torn by brambles, impeded by ferns and reeds, I helped to pursue the Leopard-man who had broken the Law, and the Hyena-swine ran, laughing savagely, by my side.
-- I threw up my arm to defend myself from the blow that flung me headlong with a broken forearm; and the great monster, swathed in lint and with red-stained bandages fluttering about it, leapt over me and passed.
-- I rolled over and over down the beach, tried to sit up, and collapsed upon my broken arm.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By the Broken Lock that freed me, I am sure, Little Brother.'
-- He has broken no word of the Law of the Jungle.'
-- 'By the Broken Lock that freed me,' said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, 'thou art no slow goer!'
-- A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the sum-merhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
-- The curve of the broken dome was above his head.
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：
-- According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloud-less eastern sky.
-- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the dis-tant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger; and, as his companions drew their reins at the same instant, the whole party came to a halt, in order to obtain an expla-nation of the unlooked-for interruption.
-- The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.
-- These feeble and broken sounds were, however, too familiar to the foresters to draw their at-tention from the more interesting matter of their dialogue.
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