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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
-- The broken place in the iron plates was so perfectly defined that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch.
-- "Yes, broken by the monster's teeth.
-- Most annoying circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has broken all the ties of humanity.
-- Not an herb which carpeted the ground, not a branch which clothed the trees, was either broken or bent, nor did they extend horizontally; all stretched up to the surface of the ocean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had a rather heavy, slack, broken beauty, white and firm.
-- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty.
-- And Gerald realised how Halliday's eyes were beautiful too, so blue and warm and confused, broken also in their expression.
-- She suffered the ghastliness of dissolution, broken and gone in a horrible corruption.
-- Supposing this old social state were broken and destroyed, then, out of the chaos, what then?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!'
-- We crept through a broken hedge, groped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower plot under the drawing room window.
-- And he would have broken from the circle, but Miss Cathy seized him again.
-- I told them I intended by no means to encourage their tric ks: but as the prisoner had never broken his fast since yesterday's dinner, I would wink at his cheating Mr. Hindley that once.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Ph脜聯nician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.
-- The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
-- We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and it seemed to me that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!
-- I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
-- Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
-- in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
-- It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
-- Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him.
-- I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.
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