sack是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 麻袋; 解雇; vt. 解雇; 劫掠，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：
-- 'Sons of Atreus,' he cried, 'and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apol-lo, son of Jove.'
-- Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold.'
-- Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.
-- Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bid-ding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people.
-- But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There!the last sack is empty!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Korableva stuck her needle into the sack she was sewing and gazed inquiringly through her glasses at Maslova.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church, so Joseph must needs get up a congregation in the garret; and, while Hindley and his wife basked downstairs before a comfortable fire doing anything but reading their Bibles, I'll answer for it Heathcliff, myself, and the unhappy ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer books, and mount: we were ranged in a row, on a sack of corn, groaning and shivering, and hoping that Joseph would shiver too, so that he might give us a short homily for his own sake.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In falling, he made as much noise as a sack of wood falling from the fifth story of a house.
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