legend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 传说， 传奇，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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the Maori mythology has a legend of a god who ate another god; and with such a precedent, who could resist eating his neighbor?
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, it is a statement of a certain legend which runs in the Baskerville family.'
-- He had taken this legend which I have read you exceedingly to heart so much so that, although he would walk in his own grounds, nothing would induce him to go out upon the moor at night.
-- 'Of course you know the legend of the fiend dog which haunts the family?'
-- The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
-- He came over to call upon Baskerville on that first day, and the very next morning he took us both to show us the spot where the legend of the wicked Hugo is supposed to have had its origin.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arrived at the gate, the prince looked up at the legend over it, which ran: 'House of Rogojin, hereditary and honourable citizen.'
-- 'Then within his distant castle, Home returned, he dreamed his daysSilent, sad, and when death took him He was mad, the legend says.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first, they were read as D. I. C.; but, on being more carefully examined, the last letter was found to be G. There was no record or legend of any prison-er with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been.
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：
-- The whole of that wilderness, in which the latter incidents of the legend occurred, is nearly a wilderness still, though the red man has entirely deserted this part of the state.
-- Here the speaker paused, and again looked around him to discover if his legend had touched the sympathies of his listeners.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir-rel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
-- It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have The Legend of Sleepy Hollowmentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who re-sides there for a time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had heard of Andrey Semyonovitch, who had once been his ward, as a leading young progressive who was taking an important part in certain interesting circles, the doings of which were a legend in the provinces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The legend added that the onlyperson who did not identify them was the Doctor himself, who, 227when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a littlesecond-hand shop of no very good repute, where such things weretaken in exchange for gin, was more than once observed to handlethem approvingly, as if admiring some curious novelty in thepattern, and considering them an improvement on his own.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is possible that there was this golden legend under the utilitarian one: "I will help to my last effort the woman I have loved so dearly."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The more practical of its inmates abided by the tradition of a murder; the gentler and more imaginative inhabitants, including the whole of the tender sex, were loyal to the legend of a young lady of former times closely imprisoned in her chamber by a cruel father for remaining true to her own true love, and refusing to marry the suitor he chose for her.
-- The legend related how that the young lady used to be seen up at her window behind the bars, murmuring a love-lorn song of which the burden was, 'Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, bleeding away,' until she died.
-- He patted children on the head like Sir Roger de Coverley going to church, he spoke to people in the background by their Christian names, he condescended to all present, and seemed for their consolation to walk encircled by the legend in golden characters, 'Be comforted, my people!Bear it!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon the last lid's polished field Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, 'Amy' in letters gold and blue.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let not the modern paintings of this scene mislead us; for though the creature encountered by that valiant whaleman of old is vaguely represented of a griffin-like shape, and though the battle is depicted on land and the saint on horseback, yet considering the great ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have crawled up out of the sea on the beach; and considering that the animal ridden by St. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This store closes at one on Saturdays," was a pleasing and satisfactory legend to see upon doors which she felt she ought to enter and inquire for work.
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