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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Father,' she replied, without stirring, 'if any harmony has been awakened in her young breast that was mute in mine until it turned to discord, let her thank Heaven for it, and go upon her happier way, taking it as her greatest blessing that she has avoided my way.'
-- But, Sissy glanced at him with great attention; nor did she in her own breast misunderstand him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It struck its breast as it came on smelling and sniffing, reminding me of the stories we read in our early childhood of giants who ate the Flesh of men and little boys!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not a 'little pilchard sort of fish', like a boy, with a boy's flat breast and little buttocks.
-- At the same time, the infant crying in the night was crying out of his breast to her, in a way that affected her very womb.
-- From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.
-- And suddenly he held her fast against his breast again, with the old connecting passion.
-- He was coming apart; but in her breast she felt she could not bear him to leave her uncov-ered.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then,' said Mr Meagles, laying his forefinger on his companion's breast with great animation, 'don't you see a beadle, now, if you can help it.
-- 'There's a Cornish property going a begging, sir, and not a Cornish Clennam to have it for the asking,' said Pancks, taking his note-book from his breast pocket and putting it in again.
-- Clennam could not help speculating, as he seated himself in his room by the fire, whether there might be in the breast of this honest, affectionate, and cordial Mr Meagles, any microscopic portion of the mustard-seed that had sprung up into the great tree of the Circumlocution Office.
-- But her gentle breast had been so deeply wounded by what she had seen of him that she was unwilling to leave him alone, lest he should lament and despair again.
-- 'I am so unfortunate as to have awakened a strong animosity in the breast of that lady,' said Clennam.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But neither bent the knee, for the young bridegroom replied in a tone that startled all listeners as the mask fell, disclosing the noble face of Ferdinand Devereux, the artist lover, and leaning on the breast where now flashed the star of an English earl was the lovely Viola, radiant with joy and beauty.
-- Their dearest love my makers laid Within my breast of snow.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard.
-- It was under very similar circumstances to the first performance; but this time he did not breast out the line; and hence, when the whale started to run, Pip was left behind on the sea, like a hurried traveller's trunk.
-- Then crossing his arms on his breast with Yojo between, he called for the coffin lid (hatch he called it) to be placed over him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.
-- But, at length, he began, by slow degrees, to get better, and to be able to say sometimes, in a few tearful words, how deeply he felt the goodness of the two sweet ladies, and how ardently he hoped that when he grew strong and well again, he could do something to show his gratitude; only something, which would let them see the love and duty with which his breast was full; something, however slight, which would prove to them that their gentle kindness had not been cast away; but that the poor boy whom their charity had rescued from misery, or death, was eager to serve them with his whole heart and soul.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She said no more, and they went down the other dance and parted in silence; and on each side dissatisfied, though not to an equal degree, for in Darcy's breast there was a tolerable powerful feeling towards her, which soon procured her pardon, and directed all his anger against another.
-- Elizabeth was shocked to think that, however incapable of such coarseness of EXPRESSION herself, the coarseness of the SENTIMENT was little other than her own breast had harboured and fancied liberal!
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All within Elinor's breast was satisfaction, silent and strong.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.
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