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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hewas very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, andnankeen trousers; and his fine frilled shirt and cambric neckclothlooked unusually soft and white, reminding my strolling fancy (Icall to mind) of the plumage on the breast of a swan.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Mr. Woodhouse little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cor-dially welcoming, and so anxiously hoping might not have taken cold from his ride. Could he have seen the heart, he would have cared very little for the lungs; but without the most distant imagination of the impending evil, without the slightest perception of any thing extraordinary in the looks or ways of either, he repeated to them very comfort-ably all the articles of news he had received from Mr. Perry, and talked on with much self-contentment, totally unsuspi-cious of what they could have told him in return.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The bailiff was pointed out to Gabriel, who, checking the palpitation within his breast at discovering that this Ashtoreth of strange report was only a modification of Venus the well-known and admired, retired with him to talk over the necessary preliminaries of hiring.
-- She saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside.
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
-- With one hand she held her handkerchief to his breast and covered the wound, though scarcely a single drop of blood had flowed, and with the other she tightly clasped one of his.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There he wrote the following letter to his mother:-- "My Dear Mother,--Can you nourish your child from your breast again?
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she stood, hesitant, wondering where she could hide until the ache in her breast subsided alittle, a thought came to her, bringing a small ray of hope.
-- Tea roses tucked behind pink ears, cape jessamine and bud roses in round littlegarlands over cascades of side curls, blossoms thrust demurely into satin sashes, flowers that before the night was overwould find their way into the breast pockets of gray uniforms as treasured souvenirs.
-- Turning, she saw that Melly was standing with herhands clasped to her breast her eyes closed, and tiny tears oozing from the corners.
-- Then his arms went around her waist and shoulders and she felt the hard muscles of his thighs against her bodyand the buttons of his coat pressing into her breast A warm tide of feeling, bewildering, frightening, swept over her,carrying out of her mind the time and place and circumstances.
-- Her faded calico dress was open to the waist and her large bronze breast exposed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He crammed what little food was left, into the breast of his gray jacket.
-- With that, we returned to her room, and sat down as before; I was beggared, as before; and again, as before, Miss Havisham watched us all the time, directed my attention to Estella's beauty, and made me notice it the more by trying her jewels on Estella's breast and hair.
-- Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
-- Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the dinner, I felt that I must open my breast that very evening to my friend and chum.
-- "Yes; but my dear Handel," Herbert went on, as if we had been talking, instead of silent, "its having been so strongly rooted in the breast of a boy whom nature and circumstances made so romantic, renders it very serious.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.
-- The little tailor began his game again, picked out the biggest stone, and threw it with all his might on the breast of the first giant.
-- Then he took him out, and sat down by the fire and laid him on his breast and rubbed his arms that the blood might circulate again.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them be-ing admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a propor-tionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:- for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.
-- They saw the ships move forward in a large half-moon, but could not discern me, who was up to my breast in water.
-- for such it seems he took me to be, as I lay upon my breast in her majesty's right hand.
-- The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and pud-dings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.
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