breast是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 胸膛， 乳房，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gar-ment hung so loosely on the figure, that its capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you hear in my voice I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it!If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!'
-- She held him closer round the neck, and rocked him on her breast like a child.
-- When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed, and his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms emblem to human-ity, of the rest and silence into which the storm called Life must hush at last they came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground.
-- 'Seeking them from me, my nephew,' said the Marquis, touching him on the breast with his forefinger they were now standing by the hearth 'you will for ever seek them in vain, be assured.'
-- Already, the mender of roads had penetrated into the midst of a group of fifty par-ticular friends, and was smiting himself in the breast with his blue cap.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.
-- And during their whole flight the Elder Tree smelt so sweet and odorous; he remarked the roses and the fresh beeches, but the Elder Tree had a more won-drous fragrance, for its flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden; and there, too, did he often lay his head dur-ing the flight.
-- They now let him go on alone; and as he went, his breast was filled more and more with the forest solitude; but he still heard the little bell with which the others were so satis-fied, and now and then, when the wind blew, he could also hear the people singing who were sitting at tea where the confectioner had his tent; but the deep sound of the bell rose louder; it was almost as if an organ were accompany-ing it, and the tones came from the left hand, the side where the heart is placed.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She sat down at the writing table, but instead of writing she clasped her hands on the table, and, laying her head on them, burst into tears, with sobs and heaving breast like a child crying.
-- The baby was lying with its head thrown back, stiffening itself in the nurse's arms, and would not take the plump breast offered it; and it never ceased screaming in spite of the double hushing of the wet-nurse and the other nurse, who was bending over her.
-- She could not listen to them and take them in, so strong was the one feeling that filled her breast and grew stronger and stronger.
-- And immediately after the shot it splashed heavily with its white breast on the wet mire.
-- Ce n'est pas un pis-aller, on the contrary..." Darya Alexandrovna noticed that at this point in his explanation he grew confused, and she did not quite understand this digression, but she felt that having once begun to speak of matters near his heart, of which he could not speak to Anna, he was now making a clean breast of everything, and that the question of his pursuits in the country fell into the same category of matters near his heart, as the question of his relations with Anna.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no time to lose: Fogg must be detained at Hong Kong, so he resolved to make a clean breast of it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The president of Digamma, seizing Fatty with some firmness, growled, "I'm going to stick this crib in your pocket--look, here in your breast pocket, behind your handkerchief."
-- Her sulky blue uniform was gone; she was childishly slim and light in a princess frock that was a straight line from high collar and soft young breast to her feet.
-- except for a dreadful second when Leora floated between them, eyes closed and hands crossed on her pale cold breast .
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：
-- With the same helplessness and the same terror, she looked at him for a while and, suddenly putting out her left hand, pressed her fingers faintly against his breast and slowly began to get up from the bed, mov-ing further from him and keeping her eyes fixed even more immovably on him.
-- I admit it openly for one may as well 630 Crime and Punishmentmake a clean breast of it I was the first to pitch on you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It lay heavier on my breast than if I hadbeen a most atrocious criminal, I dare say.
-- From that night there grew upin my breast a feeling for Peggotty which I cannot very well define.
-- When I could cry no more, I began to think; andthen the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dullpain that there was no ease for.
-- At the same time, I must say that the generosity of herchampionship of poor harmless Mr. Dick, not only inspired myyoung breast with some selfish hope for myself, but warmed itunselfishly towards her.
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