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：
-- Left by their guide, the travelers remained a few minutes in helpless ignorance, afraid even to move along the broken rocks, lest a false step should precipitate them down some one of the many deep and roaring caverns, into which the water seemed to tumble, on every side of them.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The gallant Ichabod now spent at least an extra half hour at his toilet, brushing and furbishing up his best, and indeed only suit of rusty black, and arranging his locks by a bit of broken looking-glass that hung up in the schoolhouse.
-- On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees.
-- They consisted of two shirts and a half; two stocks for the neck; a pair or two of worsted stockings; an old pair of corduroy small- clothes; a rusty razor; a book of psalm tunes full of dog's-ears; and a broken pitch-pipe.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
-- With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.
-- When she's alone and humiliated and broken it would be dreadful if she had nowhere to go."
-- To me it was his broken spirit that expressed itself, and I rebelled against his renunciation.
-- I thought of the happy life that pair had led in the cosy studio in Montmartre, Stroeve and his wife, their simplicity, kindness, and hospitality; it seemed to me cruel that it should have been broken to pieces by a ruthless chance; but the cruellest thing of all was that in fact it made no great difference.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The faithful creature, having broken his chain, had followed his master.
-- Herbert often glided among the broken stumps with the agility of a young cat, and disappeared in the underwood.
-- He could scarcely be recognized, exhausted with fatigue, broken with grief.
-- From this point the shore ran pretty regularly north and south, broken at two-thirds of its perimeter by a narrow creek, from which it ended in a long tail, similar to the caudal appendage of a gigantic alligator.
-- By means of this explosive substance the rock was broken open at the very places chosen by the engineer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Quilp's Wharf, Daniel Quilp was a ship-breaker, yet to judge from these appearances he must either have been a ship-breaker on a very small scale, or have broken his ships up very small indeed.
-- This was prudent, for in point of fact, the dwarf, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a little distance from the sash armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough and jagged and studded in many parts with broken nails, might possibly have hurt him.
-- And then the old man clasped his hands above her head, and said, in a few broken words, that from that time forth they would wander up and down together, and never part more until Death took one or other of the twain.
-- Some of the glass in the window he had so often watched, had been broken in the rough hurry of the morning, and that room looked more deserted and dull than any.
-- In the height of his ecstasy, Mr Quilp had like to have met with a disagreeable check, for rolling very near a broken dog-kennel, there leapt forth a large fierce dog, who, but that his chain was of the shortest, would have given him a disagreeable salute.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a few seconds there was silence, which was broken only by the blowing of noses, coughing, and clanking of chains.
-- The table was covered with a gloomy cloth, an embroidered towel serving as a napkin, and on the table, in vieux-saxe, stood a soup-bowl with a broken handle, filled with potato soup and containing the same rooster that he had seen carried into the house on his arrival.
-- And she would have broken her word and drunk some wine had she been in the prison.
-- She is entirely broken down."
-- The sun came forth again, the earth brightened, and a low but brilliant violet tinged rainbow, broken at one end, appeared in the eastern horizon.
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